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I am wondering how will you ban folks coming from a country. IP based? As far as I know HN code is open source. So if that is still true, you should be able to

by shail 13y ago

I am wondering how will you ban folks coming from a country. IP based? As far as I know HN code is open source. So if that is still true, you should be able to see it in the code.

hemantv 13y ago
I think its mostly IP based. yeah I can look around in code.
tptacek 13y ago
HN is not open source. An older variant of some of the code used to host the site is public.
logn 13y ago
Some of the spam filters and scoring mechanisms are not open sourced (from what I've heard).