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Ask HN: What tech stack would you pick to rebuild HN today?

4 points by bodash 7mo ago

Hacker News is famously built with Arc[^1] and I know that users don't care about your tech stack[^2]. BUT, I'm really interested to know, if you had to rebuild HN today, what tech stack would you choose? (the answer is very unlikely to be Arc, right?) This is to consider all the existing features of HN (auth, comments, updates, text-heavy, etc) but also the "hidden" features like content moderation, filtering bots, shadowbaning, high availability, API, and etc. [^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28155134 [^2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43125981

bodash 7mo ago
Personally, I think Go + HTMX + PostgreSQL + Redis can go a long mile, but I could be missing hindsights
mindcrime 7mo ago
If I had to build it myself? Probably something like: Spring Boot, HTMX, Postgresql, Valkey, Solr
chistev 7mo ago
I built a HN clone with just Django two years ago.
- bodash 7mo ago
  Got a link?
  - chistev 7mo ago
    Unfortunately it's in a private repo. I built it for a client who wanted to build a HN clone for an E-commerce audience. It never took off. Didn't help that that they had me add a pay wall to it.
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