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Love to know more about the HW and SW stacks that service HN.
by tkinom 6y ago
Love to know more about the HW and SW stacks that service HN.
- mandis 6y agothere was a quote that said the site runs off of 1 core, which is a feat in scaling.... need moarr details!
- nanomonkey 6y agoFrom my understanding, it's written in Arc, a Lisp variant created by PG. The Wikipedia article on arc [0] lists some tutorials for creating a forum similar to HN. [0][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)]
- krapp 6y agoThe current version of Arc can be found at arclanguage.org, forum included, but HN itself runs a lot of proprietary code so the base version of the language and forum won't have feature parity with HN. There is also Anarki[0], which is the public fork of Arc and the forum, which is very much not in feature parity with HN. Anyone who wants to contribute is welcome to. [0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
- saagarjha 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767439