I run a clone of hacker news with a small but dedicated group of users. I implemented support for basically every public feature in HN, with the exception of th

I run a clone of hacker news with a small but dedicated group of users. I implemented support for basically every public feature in HN, with the exception of the “past” link and getting rid of dynamic links. It implements HN search via Algolia, HN’s api via Firebase, HN’s javascript and css. People have submitted a total of 2700 items over two years, which is frankly incredible to me. It’s also scooped HN three or four times, where stories that appear there end up on HN a day or weeks later. I find that amusing. It costs $12/mo, runs on FreeBSD just like HN originally did, and requires almost no moderation. It succeeded in replicating the feeling of HN’s early days, in terms of a sense of wonder when you stumble across it. But almost no one comments, much to my surprise. I should probably do a writeup someday. But mainly I wanted w high quality HN implementation. pg’s original code vs this took two months of dedicated work. Figuring out firebase and algolia bindings for Arc took some (enjoyable) doing.