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. Chernobyl wildlife forty years on 52 upvotes, 3 comments
  2. Self-updating screenshots 89 upvotes, 13 comments
  3. MoQ Boy 41 upvotes, 4 comments
  4. The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 113 upvotes, 19 comments
  5. Three constraints before I build anything 64 upvotes, 9 comments
  6. Box to save memory in Rust 78 upvotes, 16 comments
  7. Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated) 11 upvotes, 0 comments
  8. Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet 172 upvotes, 44 comments
  9. Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core 38 upvotes, 7 comments
  10. Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch 144 upvotes, 42 comments
  11. XOXO Festival Archive 46 upvotes, 10 comments
  12. FreeBSD Device Drivers Book 24 upvotes, 4 comments
  13. Music of the BBC Microcomputer System 12 upvotes, 1 comments
  14. Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency 95 upvotes, 33 comments
  15. The fastest Linux timestamps 31 upvotes, 8 comments
  16. I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it 460 upvotes, 250 comments
  17. When Your Digital Life Vanishes 9 upvotes, 1 comments
  18. SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities 260 upvotes, 146 comments
  19. When the cheap one is the cool one 33 upvotes, 12 comments
  20. Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall) 65 upvotes, 31 comments
  21. Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft 72 upvotes, 36 comments
  22. Clay PCB Tutorial 201 upvotes, 122 comments
  23. Lessons from building multiplayer browsers 14 upvotes, 4 comments
  24. Quirks of Human Anatomy 96 upvotes, 61 comments
  25. Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race 272 upvotes, 202 comments
  26. EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code 4 upvotes, 0 comments
  27. Notepad++ for Mac 15 upvotes, 6 comments
  28. AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it 303 upvotes, 258 comments
  29. TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough 3 upvotes, 0 comments
  30. An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below 485 upvotes, 656 comments