That would be great! The tech platform shouldn't be too sophisticated. HN uses Arc, a Lisp implemented in Racket (http://arclanguage.org http://arclanguage.org

That would be great! The tech platform shouldn't be too sophisticated. HN uses Arc, a Lisp implemented in Racket (http://arclanguage.org http://arclanguage.org). I'm not sure about the DB, though. However, the difficult part, as in every online community, would be in keeping the conversation reasonable (which includes moderating zealot climate change deniers, for instance).