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Ask HN: Why isn't Hacker News open-source?

• joeblow9999 10y ago
  What does that even mean?
• dkokelley 10y ago
  If memory serves me correctly, it was (is) [1] open sourced on the Arc language, but certain spam catching and ranking algorithms were made closed to prevent gaming. [1] http://arclanguage.org/install http://arclanguage.org/install
• personjerry 10y ago
  IIRC Lobsters[0] is an open-source[1] alternative, if you want. [0] https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ [1] https://github.com/jcs/lobsters https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
• niftich 10y ago
  HN is basically an instance of the arclanguage's example app, 'news.arc'. See: https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews
• smt88 10y ago
  It's a product intended to benefit for-profit companies, and it doesn't require community input to function. What benefit is there for anyone if it's open-source? It's hardly the best UX in this category of software.
• nwrk 10y ago
  There is also open source Telescope app, Meteor self-hosted hacker news/reddit website [1] http://www.telescopeapp.org/ http://www.telescopeapp.org/