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. (Blender) Cosmology with Geometry Nodes 45 upvotes, 1 comments
  2. Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom 131 upvotes, 16 comments
  3. The mail sent to a video game publisher 17 upvotes, 0 comments
  4. Paraloid B-72 160 upvotes, 24 comments
  5. Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port 96 upvotes, 16 comments
  6. Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing 413 upvotes, 106 comments
  7. "Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung 70 upvotes, 13 comments
  8. New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper 64 upvotes, 13 comments
  9. Reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels 21 upvotes, 2 comments
  10. A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU 40 upvotes, 7 comments
  11. Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy 162 upvotes, 47 comments
  12. My audio interface has SSH enabled by default 228 upvotes, 76 comments
  13. The Overtom Chess Computer Museum 32 upvotes, 6 comments
  14. ENIAC's Architects Wove Stories Through Computing 8 upvotes, 0 comments
  15. Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do 23 upvotes, 4 comments
  16. Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations 114 upvotes, 41 comments
  17. There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning 211 upvotes, 88 comments
  18. Education must go beyond the mere production of words 52 upvotes, 16 comments
  19. Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS 111 upvotes, 45 comments
  20. Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine 184 upvotes, 86 comments
  21. PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology 6 upvotes, 0 comments
  22. MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be 259 upvotes, 143 comments
  23. Humpback whales are forming super-groups 90 upvotes, 43 comments
  24. The Classic American Diner 211 upvotes, 128 comments
  25. DeepSeek v4 1886 upvotes, 1471 comments
  26. Work with the garage door up (2024) 153 upvotes, 113 comments
  27. You don't want long-lived keys 52 upvotes, 33 comments
  28. Email could have been X.400 times better 168 upvotes, 148 comments
  29. Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic 549 upvotes, 536 comments
  30. A Powerful New 'QR Code' Untangles Math's Knottiest Knots 3 upvotes, 0 comments