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Hacker News Should be open sourced
I am the only one who thinks that as much as possible Hacker News website source code should be published as an open source?
- J_Darnley 10y agoI thought it was. Isn't it called Arc?
- daveloyall 10y agoArc is a language. news.arc is an example program that ships with it. HN is a deployment of that app, with non-open source changes.
- J_Darnley 10y agoThanks for the clarification.
- daveloyall 10y agoPreviously: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22news.arc%22&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22news.arc%22&sort=byPopulari...
- benologist 10y agoIn principal absolutely, but Reddit is portable and python which is probably significantly more useful in practice: https://github.com/reddit/reddit https://github.com/reddit/reddit
- jjman 10y agoI think all options should be available to the public so they can choose which platform suits best their end goals. And I believe Hacker news is simple and yet functional.
- cocktailpeanuts 10y agoOpen sourcing the ranking algorithm to the readers of "Hacker" news obviously won't end well.
- jjman 10y agoI think the latest version of the algorithm should be kept secret. But the older versions should be open sourced.
- Mz 10y agoI think it is. Googling got me this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390685 https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews