However, I’d like to ask:
1) what, to you, makes HN annoying? In my experience it is already a very minimal, light, and quick site. What problem did you aim to solve?
2) does this offer any advantage of the many minimal HN sites? E.g. hckrnews?
> 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.
I haven’t heard the term “squabble index” before, and google returned zilch, but I like it. That being said, I tend to use the comments on HN as a filter for whether or not the article itself will be worth my time. Perhaps this is a flawed heuristic.
One of the appealing aspects of this (and hckrnews's) implementation, for me, is that it works, at least minimally, without javascript turned on. This is in contrast to other alternatives presented here.