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 324 upvotes, 47 comments
  2. A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design 35 upvotes, 2 comments
  3. Three constraints before I build anything 226 upvotes, 39 comments
  4. Flipdiscs 301 upvotes, 55 comments
  5. Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet 272 upvotes, 55 comments
  6. Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core 78 upvotes, 12 comments
  7. TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough 169 upvotes, 37 comments
  8. FreeBSD Device Drivers Book 92 upvotes, 18 comments
  9. Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics 150 upvotes, 39 comments
  10. Box to save memory in Rust 137 upvotes, 36 comments
  11. Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch 214 upvotes, 67 comments
  12. Mystery Cpuid Bit 18 upvotes, 2 comments
  13. Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting 25 upvotes, 6 comments
  14. I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it 846 upvotes, 432 comments
  15. Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency 138 upvotes, 62 comments
  16. It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024) 92 upvotes, 40 comments
  17. SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities 312 upvotes, 170 comments
  18. EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code 74 upvotes, 33 comments
  19. When the cheap one is the cool one 130 upvotes, 67 comments
  20. Revocation of X.509 Certificates 43 upvotes, 18 comments
  21. The Prompt API 143 upvotes, 79 comments
  22. Chernobyl wildlife forty years on 114 upvotes, 61 comments
  23. Quirks of Human Anatomy 139 upvotes, 77 comments
  24. Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race 401 upvotes, 274 comments
  25. AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it 527 upvotes, 385 comments
  26. The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination 51 upvotes, 28 comments
  27. Electrostatics and High Voltage Links 7 upvotes, 1 comments
  28. Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico 9 upvotes, 2 comments
  29. Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce 64 upvotes, 42 comments
  30. An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below 712 upvotes, 857 comments