Hacker News Confidence

Less annoying hacker news. (What is this?)

This site scrapes Hacker News once every 30 minutes, then sorts according to this formula, with upvotes as positive signals and comments as negative ones. In my experience, the best articles to read on HN are the ones with a high upvote-to-discussion ratio. Mostly because controversial pieces tend to produce a disproportionate number of comments compared to upvotes.


  1. Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing 343 upvotes, 84 comments
  2. My audio interface has SSH enabled by default 130 upvotes, 28 comments
  3. TIPSv2: Advancing Vision-Language Pretraining with Enhanced Patch-Text Alignment 18 upvotes, 1 comments
  4. Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy 78 upvotes, 15 comments
  5. Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock 49 upvotes, 8 comments
  6. Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers 53 upvotes, 9 comments
  7. Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler 299 upvotes, 81 comments
  8. SDL Now Supports DOS 211 upvotes, 74 comments
  9. Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations 86 upvotes, 29 comments
  10. There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning 100 upvotes, 39 comments
  11. CSS as a Query Language 55 upvotes, 19 comments
  12. Different Language Models Learn Similar Number Representations 89 upvotes, 35 comments
  13. Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task 73 upvotes, 28 comments
  14. Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS 37 upvotes, 13 comments
  15. I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support 740 upvotes, 440 comments
  16. OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API 198 upvotes, 110 comments
  17. MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be 185 upvotes, 104 comments
  18. The Classic American Diner 131 upvotes, 74 comments
  19. Google Flow Music 66 upvotes, 33 comments
  20. SFO Quiet Airport (2025) 123 upvotes, 73 comments
  21. CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Claude Code 37 upvotes, 17 comments
  22. DeepSeek v4 1781 upvotes, 1388 comments
  23. FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion (IMU and GPS and encoders) 6 upvotes, 1 comments
  24. Work with the garage door up 99 upvotes, 80 comments
  25. How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences 288 upvotes, 280 comments
  26. Email could have been X.400 times better 108 upvotes, 101 comments
  27. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks 66 upvotes, 59 comments
  28. You don't want long-lived keys 10 upvotes, 5 comments
  29. I'm done making desktop applications (2009) 136 upvotes, 153 comments
  30. Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic 248 upvotes, 310 comments