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Not sure that’s always been true, or at least for sure PG was open about subsets if the code. Generally, there’s reason to open source code, and open sourcing i
by billme 6y ago
Not sure that’s always been true, or at least for sure PG was open about subsets if the code. Generally, there’s reason to open source code, and open sourcing it would likely result in more overhead not less; generally HN goal is to very, very slowly change the code, interface, etc.
Honestly, cloning HN really would not be that hard, cloning dang, that’s another story.
EDIT:
Here’s a recent comment from dang on open source HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22791221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22791221
- krapp 6y agoThere is an open source fork but it runs on Racket[0], so the Arc documentation isn't always correct, and of course that forum and this one differ in terms of features. [0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
- gus_massa 6y agoHN is written in Arc that is written in Racket. I think HN use a slightly modified version of Racket with a few tweaks to be more friendly with the high amount of memory used in HN.
- traes 6y ago> cloning HN really would not be that hard Isn't that basically what lobste.rs did?
- billme 6y agoRelated link: https://lobste.rs/about https://lobste.rs/about And history: https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker_news/ https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...