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It's actually 501. (I spent a few days at exactly 500 wondering why I couldn't downvote yet...)

• dang 12y ago
  (> (karma user) downvote-threshold*) Right you are.
  • danford 12y ago
    Is HN open source?
    • benaiah 12y ago
      No, but dang's a mod, so he has access to the source code.
    • alecdbrooks 12y ago
      It was open-sourced at least two years ago[0]. I believe it hasn't been since to prevent gaming of the system, but I don't remember where I heard that. [0] Based on this handy Github repository: https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews Original: http://arclanguage.org/install http://arclanguage.org/install
      • roghummal 12y ago
        So security through obscurity? "Hacker News" always struck me as a misnomer. "VC-Startup-MBA-someone-will-come-post-interesting-things,because-the-site-is-simple-and-you-lynx/links-using-weirdos-love-that-shit-and-maybe-we-can-capitalize-on-that News" There we go. It's cool seeing how the other half lives but there's a reason I don't usually comment here. HN comments are on par with Slashdot (now, not then). This post gives me the impression that a foamy circle-jerk is the _objective_.