> Coincidentally, the forum we're commenting on right now uses a fork of the original Reddit codebase The current codebase was developed from scratch - zero fo

> Coincidentally, the forum we're commenting on right now uses a fork of the original Reddit codebase The current codebase was developed from scratch - zero forking - from what I can see. HN is written in ARC http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html which is a language designed by Paul Graham. Here’s a thread talking about the early days of HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27452276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27452276 and it mentions “The earliest version of HN I can find; 166 LOC” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723767 Here’s Paul talking about the release of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html AFAIK this is the latest public copy of the HN code, but it is significantly outdated: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc