> Maybe they are intentionally using boring tech This might be true on the infrastructure layer, but HN definitly uses "fancy" technology as Paul developed his

> Maybe they are intentionally using boring tech This might be true on the infrastructure layer, but HN definitly uses "fancy" technology as Paul developed his own lisp that powers HN, Arc :) http://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/ > Arc is designed for exploratory programming: the kind where you decide what to write by writing it. A good medium for exploratory programming is one that makes programs brief and malleable, so that's what we've aimed for. This is a medium for sketching software.