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Shouldn't Hacker news be open source, since monetization is not their primary intent ? That could be a nice comment system. Edit: since Hacker news uses fireba
by iamgopal 8y ago
Shouldn't Hacker news be open source, since monetization is not their primary intent ? That could be a nice comment system.
Edit: since Hacker news uses firebase, it would be nice to have some statistics for Their firebase usage and costing etc, if available anywhere ?
- krapp 8y agoThe software Hacker News is based upon is open source[0], however Hacker News itself is not, because the site is run by a venture capital firm and monetization is the primary intent of many users who are YC's potential clients. [0]http://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/