As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, HN is already open source in that sense. See http://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/ - it's the example app (news.

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, HN is already open source in that sense. See http://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/ - it's the example app (news.arc). A git mirror is here: https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews