Show HN: Hacker news for science

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14734664

I took it upon myself to see how long it would take for me to build the hacker news website.

The stack: - Scala/ Akka Http -- ScalaJS / Autowire / Bookpickle -- Kalium / Salting / Scrypt -- Bootstrap - Google GCE -- Kubernetes / Docker -- Load balancer -- Ingress controller/ nginx -- Let's encrypt SSL

Image size: - OpenJDK ~ 100mb - Kalium ~ 150mb - App ~ 50mb

In all, it took 6 days to complete. The application logic only took 2 days; the longest part was cascading the comments correctly with minimal passes. 2 days was setting up different environments like sbt revolver for html development, docker-compose sbt for integration testing, docker (whisk) unit testing. And 2 days was playing with GCE settings like setting up nameservers, handling naked domain, container-registry, kubernetes/ helm configs.

The features are bare minimum. You can submit posts preprend with "review:" if you want to others to review your manuscript, and "publish:" for showing new papers that have been published. For now post are listed by most recent and comments are ranked by points.

Disclaimer: links are taken from hacker news.