Here's mine, written on a lazy Sunday evening in January: https://github.com/shadowsun7/hacker-news-confidence https://github.com/shadowsun7/hacker-news-confide

Here's mine, written on a lazy Sunday evening in January: https://github.com/shadowsun7/hacker-news-confidence https://github.com/shadowsun7/hacker-news-confidence It runs on cron, scrapes HN once every 30 minutes, and sorts it according to the Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter (the one from the 'How Not To Sort' article here: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.... ) See the results here: http://hn.elijames.org/ http://hn.elijames.org/ I've found that the HN articles I like tend to have high vote counts as compared to comment counts. Mostly this makes sense: an article from Scientific American has more votes than comments, whereas an article on Why PHP Sucks (which I find boring) would be highly controversial, which would have higher comments. So I've treated comments as a negative signal. Mostly this works - I find myself skimming more effectively from my page than from HN itself.