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What are hacker news constraints?

• Grosvenor 6mo ago
  HTML 4.0
• mkl 6mo ago
  I think one of the biggest constraints is not directly visible to users, but its effects are: HN is built in Arc, a small LISP dialect that for a long time didn't have great performance. Some info here: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/ https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-...
• aryehof 6mo ago
  - Just submitted links and threaded comments - An advanced ranking algorithm - Moderated contribution and discussion
• globalnode 6mo ago
  stay thoughtful and focused on the tech industry or other nerdy subjects and dont get emotional and make one line snarky comments that immediately attract an avalanche of downvotes and risk getting your account shadow banned.