HN was written in a language where functional style is the norm, and yet HN couldn't have been designed via spec. I say this as someone who has thoroughly studi

HN was written in a language where functional style is the norm, and yet HN couldn't have been designed via spec. I say this as someone who has thoroughly studied HN's codebase. If you spend time examining it, it becomes evident that most of the features were extemporaneous. There is little which was thought out in advance. The recipe for HN was: do the most important thing each day; repeat for 2000 days. Such a recipe is fundamentally anti-spec, because by day 5 your spec is outdated. Spec xor exploratory programming. The codebase is the spec.