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Quick, someone write MetaNews: A hacker news for "A hacker news for X" websites!

• lowglow 13y ago
  That's reddit, really.
  • krapp 13y ago
    Ironically, there is already a HN subreddit. But it's join-by-approval only and there's nothing there.
    • macNchz 13y ago
      There's also http://www.reddit.com/r/hackerjerk http://www.reddit.com/r/hackerjerk
      • vezzy-fnord 13y ago
        Which is dead. Rather, most HN satire currently goes on at http://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk http://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk
  • Semaphor 13y ago
    I don't think so. From my understanding he is talking about a HN clone that only allows posts about new HN clones.
    • infruset 13y ago
      Yes, that's what I meant. And this would beg for a Meta version of itself, although I'm not sure what that could be..
• networked 13y ago
  Until someone does you can use the following HNSearch queries: [1], [2] and [3] (roughly best to wrost). Note that you'll get HN apps along with HN clones. [1] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22hacker+news+for%22&sortby=score+desc https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22hac... [2] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=show+%22hacker+news+for%22&sortby=create_ts+desc&start=0 https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=show+%... [3] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22show++hn%22+%22hn+for%22&sortby=score+desc&start=0 https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22sho... Edit: [2] finds this 'Show HN: Hacker News for "Hacker News for 'X'"': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5436841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5436841. Edit 2: Improved the search queries.
• unclebucknasty 13y ago
  No kidding. And, be sure to rip off the entire look and feel with only a color change. Seems like there should be at least a little shame with these Hacker News for X sites.
  • krapp 13y ago
    It's not really "ripping off" anything given that the structure and css are included with the Arc distro which a lot of these sites appear to be using.
    • unclebucknasty 13y ago
      Yeah, maybe it's the idea of taking that CSS/structure and creating an exact clone of HN for some specific niche that lacks originality in my book.
      • krapp 13y ago
        well, to be fair, if this is any indication of how deeply integrated markup, data and code are in an Arc application, making any kind of changes to the rendered document would be potentially horribly painful: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/html.arc https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/html.arc (sorry... I'm sure people think this is awesome because zomg Lisp but in any other language it would be derided as "spaghetti code")
        • unclebucknasty 13y ago
          That's pretty bad. So, what we're saying is these guys are merely using the open source Arc webapp that HN is using and changing a few styles? If so, that's actually not dishonorable and more like just starting a niche community with forum software. And, I have been educated.
        • bennyg 13y ago
          Wow, Lisp is pretty gross. There just doesn't look like a whole lot of order there, and it looks pretty annoying to write.