OT, but has someone made the Hacker News of Hacker News clones yet?
The Hacker News of Cryptocurrency
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#12Probably worth pointing out that the website a forked version of Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/
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#13Over the years it seems there have been a fair few 'Hacker News for X' (see https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/hacker%20ne...). Presumably each time people implement the whole site from scratch (users, commenting, ranking, etc). Have there ever been any open-source attempts at creating a generic Hacker News style site that people could self host for specific topics? The only thing that I can think of is self-hosting your own copy of reddit.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
r/bitcoin is full of bitcoin fanatics who will bury any cryptocurrency-related news that isn't bitcoin. Mention XRP, BTS, ETH, or really any next-gen blockchain tech that doesn't ride on bitcoin and you are called a heretic.
In all fairness, here are 2 points from their submission guidelines... * News articles that do not contain the word "Bitcoin" are usually off-topic. This subreddit is not about general financial news. * Submissions that are mostly about some other cryptocurrency belong elsewhere. For example, /r/CryptoCurrency is a good place to discuss all cryptocurrencies. So it seems that if you submit something that isn't bitcoin…
Absolutely - just explaining why OP is not "pretty much what r/bitcoin is"
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#15Over the years it seems there have been a fair few 'Hacker News for X' (see https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/hacker%20ne... ). Presumably each time people implement the whole site from scratch (users, commenting, ranking, etc). Have there ever been any open-source attempts at creating a generic Hacker News style site that people could self host for specific topics? The only thing that I can think of i…
Perhaps Sacha Greif's Telescope? http://sachagreif.com/introducing-telescope/
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#16Over the years it seems there have been a fair few 'Hacker News for X' (see https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/hacker%20ne... ). Presumably each time people implement the whole site from scratch (users, commenting, ranking, etc). Have there ever been any open-source attempts at creating a generic Hacker News style site that people could self host for specific topics? The only thing that I can think of i…
From the discussion yesterday on "HN for data scientists"[0], there was mention of a service which enables one to deploy "HN for X"[1], as well as some discussion that (some version of) the code for HN is available[2].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8696443
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#17Over the years it seems there have been a fair few 'Hacker News for X' (see https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/hacker%20ne... ). Presumably each time people implement the whole site from scratch (users, commenting, ranking, etc). Have there ever been any open-source attempts at creating a generic Hacker News style site that people could self host for specific topics? The only thing that I can think of i…
From the discussion yesterday on "HN for data scientists"[0], there was mention of a service which enables one to deploy "HN for X"[1], as well as some discussion that (some version of) the code for HN is available[2]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8696443 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8697407 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8697102
Direct link to service mentioned: http://www.postatic.com/admin/hello/welcome
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#19It's just another Bitcoin site. "bitcointalk.org" is probably more useful.
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#20OT, but has someone made the Hacker News of Hacker News clones yet?
Yes: http://hn4hn4x.herokuapp.com [0].
Obviously very tongue-in-cheek.