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. Show HN: VaultSandbox – Test your real MailGun/SES/etc. integration 30 upvotes, 0 comments
  2. Passing of Joe Mancuso 170 upvotes, 15 comments
  3. On the slow death of scaling 62 upvotes, 10 comments
  4. Show HN: Open-source AI workflows with read-only auth scopes 11 upvotes, 0 comments
  5. Vector graphics on GPU 11 upvotes, 0 comments
  6. High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it 130 upvotes, 31 comments
  7. A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time 224 upvotes, 63 comments
  8. I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it 345 upvotes, 107 comments
  9. Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery 65 upvotes, 17 comments
  10. We recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari horoscope program 61 upvotes, 18 comments
  11. Show HN: Make audio loops online 34 upvotes, 8 comments
  12. Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025) 28 upvotes, 6 comments
  13. Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents 63 upvotes, 21 comments
  14. Vietnam bans unskippable ads 1288 upvotes, 665 comments
  15. Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics 135 upvotes, 58 comments
  16. The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup 317 upvotes, 167 comments
  17. What *is* code? (2015) 29 upvotes, 9 comments
  18. Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit 156 upvotes, 85 comments
  19. Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI 43 upvotes, 18 comments
  20. Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification 102 upvotes, 53 comments
  21. Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) 239 upvotes, 151 comments
  22. CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs 98 upvotes, 56 comments
  23. Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone 412 upvotes, 284 comments
  24. Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing 93 upvotes, 61 comments
  25. PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases 48 upvotes, 31 comments
  26. Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy 119 upvotes, 105 comments
  27. Sergey Brin's Unretirement 147 upvotes, 139 comments
  28. Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far 533 upvotes, 726 comments
  29. Rust is beyond object-oriented, part 3: Inheritance (2023) 19 upvotes, 25 comments
  30. Laylo (YC S20) – Head of Growth (Organic and Partners and Loops and AI) – Remote US 0 upvotes, 0 comments