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Ask PG: Why is Hacker News not Open Source?

• tomasien 14y ago
  Ask OP: Why SHOULD it be open source? 1. Asking "Why isn't it this" without a "this is why it should be this" is such an easy argument it must always be ignored 2. Hacker News is a Y Combinator entity. If it were to be open source, it would be open source to YC people only I can only assume.
  • rbanffy 14y ago
    1) because we could then help make it better (or make a couple HNs) I believe there is an old version available. 2) open source for some people but not for others is an interesting concept.
    • dfc 14y ago
      Open source for some people but not others? Thats not open source...
      • tomasien 14y ago
        I know we're considering a new model for open source. I'd say that's a semantic argument but it's more of a semantic observation
      • rbanffy 14y ago
        Sorry. Forgot the <sarcasm> tag.
• tokenadult 14y ago
  See previous discussions of this issue, which are easily revealed by Google if the fitting keywords are used in the search: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494421 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494421 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=711613 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=711613 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4285617/how-do-i-install-arc-to-get-a-hacker-news-clone-website http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4285617/how-do-i-install-...
• mqzaidi 14y ago
  Unrelated, but there are good open source clones like https://github.com/antirez/lamernews https://github.com/antirez/lamernews
• replax 14y ago
  also, if e.g. the algos for the rank of the articles would be known exactly, it would make it substentially easier to game them...