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Lamer News
- diggan 14y agoSo, like Lobster, no about page or introduction. What is this clone about?
- cmelbye 14y agoI'm pretty sure it's a fairly old (few months, at least) clone made by antirez, the creator of Redis. Obviously it didn't quite take off.
- mhd 14y agoWasn't it more a showcase, showing what can be done with some pretty dependency-free Ruby and Redis as the main (and only) datastore/caching mechanism? It's been on 0.9.3 for quite a while now. There's also a Python clone called lusernews (https://github.com/dengzhp/lusernews https://github.com/dengzhp/lusernews).
- qznc 14y ago"The goal is to have a system that is very simple to understand and modify and that is able to handle a very high load using a small virtual server, ensuring at the same time a very low latency user experience." https://github.com/antirez/lamernews#readme https://github.com/antirez/lamernews#readme
- akg 14y agoI don't think I prefer scalability and low-latency over a high-quality of people discussing things I care about. The focus should be on community, not handling a large number of users.
- sausagefeet 14y agoI think LamerNews was more of just some fun antirez had with Redis.
- npguy 14y agoAll attempts at HN clones, fail to understand that what makes HN click is the community, and the same set of rules that make us angry sometimes are responsible for HN surviving these many years.
- yitchelle 14y agoWhen I say the headline, I immediately thought it as a "the onion" equivalent of HN. The startup scene needs some parody.
- kbronson 14y agoThat could match if "Hacker" News were really about hacking, which is not. It should be renamed, as you imply, to "Startup News" or "You are a moron if you don't have your own enterprise" News. I like the new stream of HN clones, though. When a real "hacking" one appears (that doesn't contain mostly entrepreneurial wanking and Apple punditry) I'll (and many people from here) jump to it and never look back.
- larsberg 14y agoThe articles almost write themselves. "New silicon valley incubator 'Lambda Lifter' incubates new incubators"; "In profit maximization move, VC firm branches into Private Equity to buy out, load with debt, and bankrupt own portfolio companies"; ...
- jwwest 14y ago'Parsing Clojure in Clojure' 'Why I like Clojure' 'Writing great Scala code' 'Scala's dirty secret' 'Clojure clojure scala clojure, scala scala clojure'