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If I were to build a Hacker News clone, I'd probably do it in a seriously old-fashioned way: * MySQL for a datastore * All rendering done server-side * PHP f

If I were to build a Hacker News clone, I'd probably do it in a seriously old-fashioned way: * MySQL for a datastore * All rendering done server-side * PHP for the language * As little JavaScript as humanly possible, and only vanilla, no libraries or frameworks * As few images as possible

recov 5y ago
So basically, what the current HN is sans lisp.
- bovermyer 5y ago
  Yeah, pretty much. An actual clone, no real value add. But it'd be fun to do, regardless.