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. A hacker's guide to language models [video] 277 upvotes, 22 comments
  2. Show HN: Get your entire ChatGPT history in Markdown files 134 upvotes, 12 comments
  3. Parsing integers quickly with AVX-512 85 upvotes, 7 comments
  4. Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018) 351 upvotes, 53 comments
  5. There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org 191 upvotes, 35 comments
  6. ‘Mind-boggling’ sea creature identified as digenean trematode 117 upvotes, 20 comments
  7. PID Control Challenges 127 upvotes, 24 comments
  8. μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022) 150 upvotes, 33 comments
  9. TCP's congestion control saved the internet 118 upvotes, 25 comments
  10. Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip (2020) 88 upvotes, 19 comments
  11. Research adds evidence to benefits of ginger supplements for treating autoimmune 10 upvotes, 0 comments
  12. Unpacking Elixir: Resilience 116 upvotes, 30 comments
  13. Our humble attempt at “how much data do you need to fine-tune” 70 upvotes, 17 comments
  14. PiWrite – Kindle Paperwhite to Write 142 upvotes, 43 comments
  15. Fear and Desire: On Stanley Kubrick’s first film 22 upvotes, 3 comments
  16. Minecraft Wiki moves off of Fandom 17 upvotes, 2 comments
  17. Choose Postgres queue technology 347 upvotes, 131 comments
  18. The Cutting Room Floor–unearthing unused and cut content from video games 16 upvotes, 2 comments
  19. Hidden ocean the source of carbon dioxide on Jupiter moon 75 upvotes, 27 comments
  20. Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began 59 upvotes, 20 comments
  21. Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem 930 upvotes, 514 comments
  22. Parchman Farm, a Mississippi prison with a musical history 17 upvotes, 6 comments
  23. Hookworm gave the South a bad name (2016) 63 upvotes, 42 comments
  24. One robber baron’s gamble on railroads 63 upvotes, 44 comments
  25. Why do we need modules at all? 19 upvotes, 11 comments
  26. Is this ‘which’ dead? 27 upvotes, 18 comments
  27. Show HN: Crystaldoc.info – Crystal Shards API Documentation Hosting 10 upvotes, 4 comments
  28. LARPing and Violent Extremism 130 upvotes, 133 comments
  29. Brightline Orlando's first train: 125 mph from MCO to MIA [video] 41 upvotes, 47 comments
  30. Netflix prepares to send its final red envelope 21 upvotes, 24 comments