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Ask HN: Why isn't HN libre/FOSS?
Is HN libre? I recently got told by F-Droid while installing Glider (an HN client) that HN isn't libre. Is that true, if yes why so?
- demygale 3y agoThis isn’t slashdot. This is not a server under someone’s desk. This is not a quirky fight for freedom through internet protocols. Y combinator is power, influence, money, and all the abuse that may come with that.
- brudgers 3y agoMy understanding is that for a long time HN was more or less a server under Graham's desk. But I wasn't there so maybe it's more like I believe in a rumor.
- ksherlock 3y agoSlashdot, reddit, and HN are similar in that the source code was available. For HN, as part of arc under the Artistic license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases. https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/ https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
- krapp 3y agoBecause it's owned by billion dollar Silicon Valley startup incubator and has a ton of "business logic" for YC baked into it, and it isn't worth anyone's time to bother open sourcing it. Dang has mentioned wanting to do it but it isn't a priority. You can get the original version of Arc Lisp and the forum it's based on here[0], which only a select few people update, rarely, and they don't take PRs as far as I'm aware. And there is a FOSS fork here[1], which might as well be dead, but as far as what's actually running under HN's hood, good luck getting to it if you aren't a YC employee. [0]http://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/ [1]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
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