It's a trivially simple program, written in a dead-end language, has a ridiculous architecture, and there appears to be no prospect of changes to the open sourc

It's a trivially simple program, written in a dead-end language, has a ridiculous architecture, and there appears to be no prospect of changes to the open source version being propagated to the production HN. Doesn't seem particularly odd that nobody has forked the code. If you want to run a site like this, writing a clone seems like the rational choice.