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Ask HN: Is the source code for HN freely available?
If someone is interested in starting a HN clone but for different content/subject matter can the HN source be d/l'd? if so, where? thanks
- cmelbye 16y agoI don't have it off hand, but search http://searchyc.com/ http://searchyc.com/
- pg 16y agohttp://arclanguage.org http://arclanguage.org
- ams1 16y agohttp://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc
- marchdown 16y agoThere were a couple of clones, but none took off really. The most prolific one seems to be newmogul.com by nickb, focused on business and economics. Nickb has all but disappeared since, and Newmogul is no more, but some of the patrons moved on to http://markenomics.com http://markenomics.com. HN is written in PG's own dialect of lisp, http://arclanguage.org http://arclanguage.org and source code for vanilla version of the site is included with arc distribution. There's no reason not to hack together a clone and get a taste of the language.
- maxwin 16y agoUnless you know or plan to learn about lisp, it can be hard for you to maintain or modify the code. I am building an HN clone in Python (I'll probably make a PHP/SQL version too) and will open-source it in a couple of months. Stay tuned.
- trix 16y agomaxwin, when you have your PHP/mySQL version make sure you let me know so's I can use it