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Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?

2 points by pranavk 13y ago

Just curious because it seems that it is written using rails.

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checker659 13y ago
Why does it seem so?
- pranavk 13y ago
  well that was just my intuition. may be because its easy to make such a thing with rails (may be i am getting biased here.)
FajitaNachos 13y ago
It's not. I'm sure someone will hop in with the specifics. I think it's written in arc.
- Peroni 13y ago
  Correct. Considering PG created it, it makes sense.
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pranavk 13y ago
hmm. ya just got the source code here : https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews
rizky05 13y ago
arc was invented for hn
- pranavk 13y ago
  :/ was invented for HN ? HN could have easily been built using rails or django.
  - MrBra 13y ago
    which web development frameworks have you worked with so far?
    - pranavk 13y ago
      only rails and django :D
- prodigal_erik 13y ago
  Creating HN was just an excuse to prototype a web app in Arc. It's really an effort towards http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html.