arclanguage/anarki on Hacker News

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki Arc's "news" program was the basis for HN.

comment by GaryBluto · 2025-11-25 · in Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

…is looking at Arc now as well! Any chance we might see some issues on anarki resolved now? Perhaps https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/issues/89 would be a good starting point :grin: Jokes aside, its good to see YC cares about community,…

comment by frainfreeze · 2025-04-02 · in Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

Here the source: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by kaltsturm · 2024-12-10 · in Ask HN: Other websites using HN's forum software (news.arc)?

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Anarki – A 'wiki-like' fork of Arc Lisp

story by montyanderson · 2024-05-26 · 0 comments

Neat! How do I run it? Is it using https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki or something else?

comment by sillysaurusx · 2024-03-26 · in Gerbil Scheme – A Lisp for the 21st Century

…license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases. https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/ https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

comment by ksherlock · 2024-01-01 · in Ask HN: Why isn't HN libre/FOSS?

…HN's hood, good luck getting to it if you aren't a YC employee. [0] http://arclanguage.org/ [1] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by krapp · 2023-12-30 · in Ask HN: Why isn't HN libre/FOSS?

Maybe look at: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/apps/news/...

comment by e12e · 2023-12-03 · in Steel – An embeddable and extensible Scheme dialect

It shares the same lineage as this code: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/master/apps/news

comment by shawnz · 2023-12-03 · in Lobsters

Hackernews was released as free / open source some years back. There's a community managed fork: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/

comment by hjek · 2023-08-04 · in Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99

…third party client that uses the HN API and let HN stay what it is. [0] http://arclanguage.org/ [1] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by krapp · 2023-07-29 · in Ask HN: What would it take for HN to become ActivityPub compatible?

…version was open sourced (Perl artistic License) http://arclanguage.org/ There is an active fork in https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki but it's totally independent and the current conde in HN can be (very) different. My guess is that…

comment by gus_massa · 2023-07-21 · in Ask HN: Dang, could the login page get a title?

You might find something useful here: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/master/apps/news

comment by mindcrime · 2023-04-25 · in Ask HN: Is there an open-source HN forum clone?

arc is written in mzscheme and/or racket, and not C. It has infinite integer precision. https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by rurban · 2023-04-06 · in Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

It was published in the public version of 2009 https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/9f2e1dd53b5b66bb4... Look for "contro-factor" (i.e. controversial-factor). This is old code, and the mods make tweaks here and there without warning,…

comment by gus_massa · 2023-01-14 · in Show HN: Hacker News Without News

Not to mention arc/anarki (hn is/was written in arc - anarki comes with a "news" example app/forum): https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/HEAD#readme

comment by e12e · 2022-10-08 · in RacketCon 2022

…this one geared towards other interests... It's already out there: http://arclanguage.org/ or... https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki >Anarki comes bundled with News, a Hacker News style app...

comment by Normille · 2022-09-07 · in Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?

…by id, the contents are a sexp encoding nested tables (so, lists of lists of … key value pairs) https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/apps/news/...

comment by yababa_y · 2022-08-10 · in Ask HN: Is there a description of the file layout HN uses to store data?

…this has been posted on a popular site written in a dialect of scheme: http://arclanguage.org/ https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by axlprose · 2022-08-07 · in Our Roadmap for Nix

…easy to slap Redis on top if you need caching or something. There is a modern maintained variant at https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/master/apps/news as well if you want to spin up your own HN-a-like and have the patience. File…

comment by petercooper · 2022-06-21 · in Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online?

…which is a community-maintained fork of Arc, seems more up-to-date and has some QoL upgrades, https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki Coincidentally, seems my post have been the top #1 post on the Arc forums since I first made it, ~17 days…

comment by capableweb · 2022-02-26 · in Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?

…the url in a table somewhere. Once archived, that link becomes a link to the archived page. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/pull/179

comment by krapp · 2022-02-18 · in Ask HN: Add Archive.org link in past section of HN?

I’m not sure exactly what you mean, but “News” is a HN-like open source web application: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/master/apps/news The Lobste.rs source is also open source: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

comment by cpach · 2022-02-06 · in My cheapskate commenting system

…Anarki, a divergent open source fork, can be found here[1]. [0] http://arclanguage.org/ [1] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by krapp · 2022-01-13 · in Dear sir, you have built a compiler

See also "news" from the "anarki" fork of Arc: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/master/apps/news

comment by e12e · 2021-11-07 · in Racket v8.3

…be found at http://arclanguage.org/ And the public, open source fork of Arc and the forum are at https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki Bear in mind nothing publicly available is at feature parity with Hacker News because HN is essentially…

comment by krapp · 2021-10-11 · in Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News back end open source alternative?

…open. It won't effect the original Arc distribution or HN but several other forums do use it. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by krapp · 2021-10-06 · in Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?

…of the Arc forum can be found at https://arclanguage.org , and there is a public fork, Anarki at https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki which is not in feature parity with the former, which itself is not in feature parity with Hacker News.

comment by krapp · 2021-09-10 · in Ask HN: What’s the server architecture of Hacker News?

…the experimental public fork[0] of Arc and the forum. Like everything else, it differs from HN. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by krapp · 2021-08-12 · in Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

…and are posted. So it's more 'source available.' The current public fork of Arc Lisp is Anarki at https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki . It has deviated a great deal from Arc and its version of the forum is not in any way in feature…

comment by krapp · 2021-06-09 · in Original Hacker News Source Code (2009)

…of changes locally that they won't disclose for business reasons. There's an open source fork at https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki , but it doesn't have any direct relationship with HN.

comment by krapp · 2021-03-15 · in HN was down

…which is very much not in feature parity with HN. Anyone who wants to contribute is welcome to. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by krapp · 2021-02-09 · in The Evolution of Hacker News (2013)

…content being sent to the reader, except for downconverting to markdown and back when editing. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/573e6833289823385... [1] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/html.a...

comment by krapp · 2020-11-13 · in Ask HN: How does HN sanitizes input?

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Ask HN: How does HN sanitizes input?

story by NiceWayToDoIT · 2020-11-12 · 2 comments

…the sources of HN are available here[0], it's a rather lightweight server in a dialect of Lisp. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/master/apps/news

comment by mattashii · 2020-11-11 · in $200k in sales from a $6k advertisement

…public fork. It's diverged quite a bit from Hacker News though so don't expect feature parity. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by krapp · 2020-11-11 · in The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

…consider contributing to or forking Anarki[0], the public fork of the software running HN. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by krapp · 2020-10-06 · in Ask HN: Is there a new and interesting open source forum library?

…though. It might be useful as a backup if the original site starts getting hugged to death. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/pull/179

comment by krapp · 2020-09-08 · in Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content

…web technology is inefficient for the sake of being ergonomic. Here's what Hacker News looks like: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/apps/news/...

comment by chc · 2020-07-17 · in Cloudflare was down

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Hacker News Front Page Ranking Algorithm (2008)

story by kirillzubovsky · 2020-07-04 · 10 comments

…isn't always correct, and of course that forum and this one differ in terms of features. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by krapp · 2020-06-06 · in A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)

…garbage quality of my PR and code, but if the HN devs want to rip it off they're welcome to. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/pull/171/files

comment by krapp · 2020-05-15 · in Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

…which is closed because of various YCombinator business reasons. [0] http://arclanguage.org/ [1] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki [2] https://racket-lang.org/

comment by krapp · 2020-05-15 · in Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

…Ed: the current code behind hn isn't open source, but it might still resemble this to some extent: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/apps/news/...

comment by e12e · 2020-03-27 · in Ask HN: Why was this Airbnb HN post that hit 15 votes in 30 minutes removed?

For some reason they keep letting me mess with Anarki[0], so I do. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/commits?author=kenneth...

comment by krapp · 2019-12-30 · in Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

An earlier version was open source. https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/5409fc74fdd6a0502...

comment by jrimbault · 2019-08-10 · in Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group

And given this site, I suppose a link to arc/anarki is relevant too: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/apps/news/...

comment by e12e · 2019-07-22 · in Show HN: Sinuous – Small, fast, reactive UI library

Also the public fork, Anarki[0], which I contribute to, and sometimes break. [0] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by krapp · 2019-06-23 · in Show HN: DataTau (HN clone for data science) has been down, so we cloned it

…you could emit the name of a predicate and call it). I'm too new to Prolog to tell, really. [0]: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/markdo...

comment by hjek · 2019-06-11 · in Solving Sudoku with Prolog (2016)

I don’t think OP meant “proprietary, closed” as “centralized”. If it’s about the code: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

comment by Diti · 2019-04-16 · in Mastodon and Keybase