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Ask HN: Hacker News Clone/Social News software?
I've seen a couple sites around here with very similar designs to HN, and a little while ago there was a small burst of roll-your-own hosted solutions once everyone heard that Reddit and Digg were kind of a big deal.
So here's me, thinking about creating a HN-alike for language and linguistics (the linguistics subreddit is pretty barren and I'm curious if I could do better). The barebones nature of HN is quite appealing of course; what do people recommend? I am open to suggestions for hosted sites as well as running on my own server.
- cperciva 17y agoThe code which runs HN is shipped with ARC.
- jacquesm 17y agoyou can download it here: http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar Up and running in 10 minutes if you have prior unix experience.
- misterbwong 17y agoAs cperciva said, the HN code comes with Arc. If you're looking for something on the MS stack, I believe stackoverflow just released their code and Kigg is decent.
- crux 17y agoYou know what, I've read this several times before and it absolutely left my mind. It's an obvious first step. Thanks to those who pointed out the, well, obvious.
- alanthonyc 17y agoI'll be there if you set it up.