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Why isn’t HN open source? It is after all hacker, news
by crispyporkbites 7y ago
Why isn’t HN open source? It is after all hacker, news
- RandomBacon 7y agoAn older/vanilla version of HN is. Since then, secret sauce algorithms have been added. If it was public, it might be easier for someone to game the system. It's written in Arc (a dialect of Lisp) and included in the Arc distribution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390685