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. Self-updating screenshots 257 upvotes, 38 comments
  2. TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough 119 upvotes, 15 comments
  3. Three constraints before I build anything 183 upvotes, 28 comments
  4. MoQ Boy 57 upvotes, 6 comments
  5. Flipdiscs 191 upvotes, 33 comments
  6. FreeBSD Device Drivers Book 77 upvotes, 12 comments
  7. The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 126 upvotes, 24 comments
  8. Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core 65 upvotes, 10 comments
  9. Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet 227 upvotes, 51 comments
  10. Chernobyl wildlife forty years on 95 upvotes, 18 comments
  11. Revocation of X.509 Certificates 32 upvotes, 4 comments
  12. Box to save memory in Rust 114 upvotes, 26 comments
  13. Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics 135 upvotes, 34 comments
  14. A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design 20 upvotes, 2 comments
  15. Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch 198 upvotes, 58 comments
  16. The Military Rockets That Launched the Space Age (2023) 7 upvotes, 0 comments
  17. Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency 125 upvotes, 51 comments
  18. When the cheap one is the cool one 101 upvotes, 41 comments
  19. I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it 726 upvotes, 383 comments
  20. SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities 292 upvotes, 161 comments
  21. EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code 59 upvotes, 25 comments
  22. Mystery Cpuid Bit 9 upvotes, 1 comments
  23. Quirks of Human Anatomy 128 upvotes, 70 comments
  24. Clay PCB Tutorial 219 upvotes, 129 comments
  25. Lessons from building multiplayer browsers 27 upvotes, 11 comments
  26. Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race 363 upvotes, 251 comments
  27. The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination 12 upvotes, 3 comments
  28. AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it 447 upvotes, 326 comments
  29. The Prompt API 85 upvotes, 60 comments
  30. An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below 636 upvotes, 793 comments