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. Languages Zoo 28 upvotes, 1 comments
  2. The culprit behind the 1871 vandalism of the Paleozoic Museum 36 upvotes, 4 comments
  3. Startup Incorporation for Founders: A new handbook 81 upvotes, 15 comments
  4. The History of VisiCalc 12 upvotes, 0 comments
  5. Desmos uses Pratt Parsers (2018) 12 upvotes, 0 comments
  6. Official Apple Design Resources for Figma – iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 141 upvotes, 31 comments
  7. The Last Egg 200 upvotes, 56 comments
  8. iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on 346 upvotes, 122 comments
  9. Apollo will close down on June 30th 713 upvotes, 289 comments
  10. Show HN: Databasediagram.com – Private, Text to Entity-Relationship Diagram Tool 95 upvotes, 32 comments
  11. Launch HN: Fastgen (YC W23) – Visual Low-Code Backend Builder 255 upvotes, 105 comments
  12. Knight vs. Snail (2013) 11 upvotes, 1 comments
  13. Cracking Open and Controlling a 747 Fuel Gauge 11 upvotes, 1 comments
  14. Show HN: Tremor 3.0 – The open-source library to build dashboards fast 28 upvotes, 7 comments
  15. The Oldest Maps in the World 28 upvotes, 8 comments
  16. Vivaldi on Android bypasses restrictions to let users access Bing Chat 213 upvotes, 125 comments
  17. Presence of airborne microplastics in human lung tissue 33 upvotes, 14 comments
  18. The guide to software development with Guix 161 upvotes, 101 comments
  19. fe: A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C 121 upvotes, 74 comments
  20. Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta 164 upvotes, 119 comments
  21. Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl” 143 upvotes, 113 comments
  22. Docsis 4.0 Certification Available 6 upvotes, 1 comments
  23. AI browser extensions are a security nightmare 54 upvotes, 39 comments
  24. Could seaweed be the 'fastest and least expensive' tool to fight climate change? 14 upvotes, 7 comments
  25. Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological Deficits 221 upvotes, 228 comments
  26. Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive: 180W Power Adapter 6 upvotes, 2 comments
  27. Travel across Germany with the 49 Euro ticket 133 upvotes, 157 comments
  28. The paper that came up with Apple Vision Pro's outward-facing display [pdf] 45 upvotes, 51 comments
  29. Launch HN: Infield (YC W20) – Safer, faster dependency upgrades 22 upvotes, 22 comments
  30. Aviator (YC S21) is hiring senior engineers who are passionate about DX 0 upvotes, 0 comments