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. Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video] 69 upvotes, 4 comments
  2. Marine bacteria genus may hold mitochondria's closest relatives 63 upvotes, 4 comments
  3. Intuitive Guide to Merge Sort 21 upvotes, 0 comments
  4. Visualizing Pokémon Red and Blue Connections (2020) 139 upvotes, 20 comments
  5. Write shaders for the (sim) Vegas sphere 280 upvotes, 52 comments
  6. Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file 630 upvotes, 145 comments
  7. Graph Networks for Materials Exploration 198 upvotes, 41 comments
  8. Travle: A daily game – get between countries in as few guesses as possible 226 upvotes, 50 comments
  9. Herbie: Find and fix floating-point accuracy problems 52 upvotes, 8 comments
  10. Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it's hardware 598 upvotes, 188 comments
  11. Loongson releases next-generation CPU 63 upvotes, 13 comments
  12. Show HN: Dobb·E – towards home robots with an open-source platform 301 upvotes, 97 comments
  13. New neurotech eschews electricity for ultrasound 61 upvotes, 14 comments
  14. Analog Devices Apollo MxFE 0.5 to 55 GHz Ecosystem 20 upvotes, 3 comments
  15. Writing documentation for your house 602 upvotes, 281 comments
  16. Exploring Self-Hosted Email Services 127 upvotes, 50 comments
  17. Person-in-WiFi: Fine-Grained Person Perception Using WiFi [pdf] 131 upvotes, 59 comments
  18. Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity 356 upvotes, 189 comments
  19. The origins of the steam engine 68 upvotes, 34 comments
  20. Poor Broken and Battered Amiga A2000 – Can We Fix It? [video] 27 upvotes, 10 comments
  21. Henry Kissinger Has Died 444 upvotes, 318 comments
  22. Ballerburg SDL – Play classical castle combat game from 1987 in the browser 21 upvotes, 8 comments
  23. Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud 305 upvotes, 227 comments
  24. Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board 535 upvotes, 457 comments
  25. Losing Metaphors: Zip and Paste 15 upvotes, 6 comments
  26. The Birth of the Chapter 6 upvotes, 1 comments
  27. How to tackle unreliability of coding assistants 126 upvotes, 120 comments
  28. Hysp – An independent package manager 26 upvotes, 20 comments
  29. Who makes the most reliable new cars? 319 upvotes, 705 comments
  30. Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring VP Product (& Other Engineer and PM Roles) 0 upvotes, 0 comments