Is the Hacker News source code and infrastructure public? I'm interested in web application security and performance and was hoping I could learn more about HN's source code and infrastructure.
Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?
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#2An old version is available here: http://arclanguage.org/install
I assume the current version is still written in Arc (Paul Graham created the language) but differs from that version.
Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?
#3Hacker news was originally written by Paul Graham in Arc. Arc is a Lisp-inspired programming language also written/invented by PG at the same time and Hacker News programmed in it to (also) prove it works. Arc did not catch on outside of Hacker News. Arc is free and open source. Regarding Hacker News, itself: "Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN? (2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006037
PG's response is:
I don't have time to manage such a project. I don't think it's necessary anyway. The reason HN lacks x cool feature is not that I expend no energy on the site, but that I expend all my energy on what users actually care about, which is not features but the content.
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#6I always assumed that someone had lost the source for the iOS app and that’s why we’re stuck with the broken thing.
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#7Thanks for the comments. I'm also interested in the infrastructure. Does HN run on dedicated hardware, shared VPS, AWS, Azure, etc.
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#8I always assumed that someone had lost the source for the iOS app and that’s why we’re stuck with the broken thing.
There is no official HN app, for any OS. People have made multiple unofficial ones, using the API, though.
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#9I always assumed that someone had lost the source for the iOS app and that’s why we’re stuck with the broken thing.
I read it on my iphone in the browser, and it is fine. It never even occurred to me that it would need an app. One of the best features of the site is that it does not need an app, and one can browse it while seated in the little room.
Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?
#10Hacker news was originally written by Paul Graham in Arc. Arc is a Lisp-inspired programming language also written/invented by PG at the same time and Hacker News programmed in it to (also) prove it works. Arc did not catch on outside of Hacker News. Arc is free and open source. Regarding Hacker News, itself: "Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN? (2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006037 PG's response is:…
>The reason HN lacks x cool feature is not that I expend no energy on the site, but that I expend all my energy on what users actually care about, which is not features but the content.
said pg, on a forum in which users constantly complain about missing features...