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it's okay, just give it a shot. What's the worst that can happen? (hint: We'll get smart advices from Kevin and Sam anyway)
by d0m 11y ago
it's okay, just give it a shot. What's the worst that can happen? (hint: We'll get smart advices from Kevin and Sam anyway)
- minimaxir 11y agoThere's potential for confusion and missed information (e.g the Top 5 submissions are not at the top of the story thread, due to how ranking works, so it may be difficult to find sama/kevin's comments). Although a summary thread of sama/kevin's responses afterward should fix it. Obviously I don't disapprove of the office hours, but it's always good to raise questions and concerns.
- JonnieCache 11y agoWith HN being architected the way it is (in LISP) it might be possible for them to implement a different ranking system for a specific thread. I know pg has talked about hacking HN from a repl before. Probably more effort than YC planned to put in though.
- saganus 11y agoReally? HN is implemented in Lisp? Wow. Never knew that. You have any links that talk anything about this? This sounds interesting.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoHere's a mirror of an old version of the source: https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews It's tightly knit to pg's Lisp dialect called Arc which attracted much fanfare years ago, but has since went off the radar.