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. Cameras and Lenses (2020) 152 upvotes, 12 comments
  2. Easel Turns One One year of building my own IDE in Clojure 146 upvotes, 12 comments
  3. ACM Is Now Open Access 280 upvotes, 39 comments
  4. Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged 27 upvotes, 1 comments
  5. C-events, yet another event loop, simpler, smaller, faster, safer 26 upvotes, 1 comments
  6. Build a Deep Learning Library 49 upvotes, 5 comments
  7. Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes 162 upvotes, 33 comments
  8. Common Lisp SDK for the Datastar Hypermedia Framework 43 upvotes, 7 comments
  9. Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] 344 upvotes, 106 comments
  10. Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them 223 upvotes, 75 comments
  11. A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting 31 upvotes, 6 comments
  12. Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust 237 upvotes, 84 comments
  13. Implementing HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World) Vector Search in PHP 52 upvotes, 13 comments
  14. Memory Subsystem Optimizations 17 upvotes, 2 comments
  15. Pokémon Team Optimization 161 upvotes, 60 comments
  16. Heap Overflow in FFmpeg EXIF 54 upvotes, 16 comments
  17. Show HN: I created a tool to design and create foamcore inserts for boardgames 41 upvotes, 13 comments
  18. Python numbers every programmer should know 128 upvotes, 55 comments
  19. 2025: The Year in LLMs 796 upvotes, 422 comments
  20. I canceled my book deal 580 upvotes, 324 comments
  21. Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows 6 upvotes, 0 comments
  22. iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan 178 upvotes, 96 comments
  23. Beyond the Nat: Cgnat, Bandwidth, and Practical Tunneling 25 upvotes, 8 comments
  24. European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale 37 upvotes, 15 comments
  25. 2025 Letter 146 upvotes, 90 comments
  26. Show HN: Feature detection exploration in Lidar DEMs via differential decomp 4 upvotes, 0 comments
  27. Children and Helical Time 122 upvotes, 93 comments
  28. Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder 100 upvotes, 86 comments
  29. The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs 6 upvotes, 2 comments
  30. Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker 98 upvotes, 142 comments