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. Linux Network Performance Ultimate Guide 39 upvotes, 0 comments
  2. Introduction to Machine Learning Interviews Book 84 upvotes, 4 comments
  3. The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide 105 upvotes, 6 comments
  4. Driving Compilers 39 upvotes, 1 comments
  5. Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecture 150 upvotes, 15 comments
  6. A simple procedural animation technique [video] 122 upvotes, 15 comments
  7. Repulsive Shells [video] 113 upvotes, 17 comments
  8. Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards 73 upvotes, 11 comments
  9. TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch 114 upvotes, 21 comments
  10. Counting bytes faster than you'd think possible 124 upvotes, 25 comments
  11. Show HN: Patchwork – Open-source framework to automate development gruntwork 77 upvotes, 14 comments
  12. Windows recovery environment and bootable USB creator in 200kb 94 upvotes, 19 comments
  13. Mastering Ruby Code Navigation: Ruby LSP Enhancements in the First Half of 2024 79 upvotes, 17 comments
  14. Better Firmware with LLVM/Clang 23 upvotes, 3 comments
  15. Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that? 186 upvotes, 57 comments
  16. Crooks Bypassed Google's Email Verification to Create Workspace Accounts, Acces 97 upvotes, 27 comments
  17. Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border 193 upvotes, 64 comments
  18. Taking a Radio Camping 17 upvotes, 2 comments
  19. In the Beginning Was the Command Line 47 upvotes, 12 comments
  20. Bril: An Intermediate Language for Teaching Compilers 8 upvotes, 0 comments
  21. Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures 233 upvotes, 88 comments
  22. Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control 152 upvotes, 62 comments
  23. Apex Surplus – A movie industry props and parts source 65 upvotes, 24 comments
  24. How large language models will disrupt data management [pdf] 54 upvotes, 19 comments
  25. The New Internet 199 upvotes, 94 comments
  26. How to Preserve Physical Photos 33 upvotes, 10 comments
  27. Zen 5's 2-ahead branch predictor: how a 30 year old idea allows for new tricks 186 upvotes, 100 comments
  28. Seam Carving (2018) 14 upvotes, 3 comments
  29. IRS collects milestone $1B in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers 64 upvotes, 49 comments
  30. Twenty (YC S23) Is Hiring a Software Engineer in Paris 0 upvotes, 0 comments