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. Text2Room: Extracting Textured 3D Meshes from 2D Text-to-Image Models 48 upvotes, 1 comments
  2. DPReview is being archived by the Archive Team 219 upvotes, 28 comments
  3. 2023 Abel Prize: Luis A. Caffarelli 61 upvotes, 6 comments
  4. Show HN: Finetune LLaMA-7B on commodity GPUs using your own text 389 upvotes, 80 comments
  5. Pg_jsonschema – JSON Schema Support for Postgres 174 upvotes, 37 comments
  6. FauxPilot – an open-source GitHub Copilot server 29 upvotes, 3 comments
  7. MRSK vs. Fly.io 16 upvotes, 1 comments
  8. Bob Metcalfe wins Turing Award 533 upvotes, 176 comments
  9. How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years 9 upvotes, 0 comments
  10. Yandex open-sources its exabyte-scale big data platform 180 upvotes, 60 comments
  11. The Poor, Misunderstood InnerText (2015) 67 upvotes, 18 comments
  12. A Mirror That Reverses How Light Travels in Time 60 upvotes, 16 comments
  13. Show HN: Zapier's first API 41 upvotes, 12 comments
  14. Launch HN: Flower (YC W23) – Train AI models on distributed or sensitive data 78 upvotes, 31 comments
  15. A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece 247 upvotes, 124 comments
  16. Show HN: ChatLLaMA – A ChatGPT style chatbot for Facebook's LLaMA 317 upvotes, 166 comments
  17. Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI 336 upvotes, 213 comments
  18. The Diff Challenge 5 upvotes, 0 comments
  19. SheepShaver: macOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux 135 upvotes, 79 comments
  20. Think Screens Stole Our Attention? Medieval Monks Were Distracted Too 93 upvotes, 52 comments
  21. GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience 781 upvotes, 561 comments
  22. A Cyberpunk Bathroom in the Middle of Nowhere 106 upvotes, 68 comments
  23. Counter-Strike 2 – Limited Test for select CS:GO players 283 upvotes, 207 comments
  24. Raytracing on AMD’s RDNA 2/3, and Nvidia’s Turing and Pascal 4 upvotes, 0 comments
  25. Fed hikes rates by 0.25 point despite recent turmoil in the banking sector 88 upvotes, 73 comments
  26. Win-Draw-Loss evaluation (2020) 9 upvotes, 3 comments
  27. Research shows we can only accurately identify AI writers about 50% of the time 147 upvotes, 172 comments
  28. The Disappearing Doomsday 19 upvotes, 20 comments
  29. Are spreadsheets a true programming language? 27 upvotes, 34 comments
  30. Rollstack (YC W23) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer in EU, Brazil, Argentina 0 upvotes, 0 comments