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…needs a database these days, I always just suggest postgres. if it's good enoguh for reddit ( https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/Architecture-Overview#... ), it's good enough for the next facebook for dogs (unless your problem is…
comment by hardwaresofton · 2017-11-28 · in What MongoDB got right (2015) -
…posted, though it's out-of-date now, it makes it clear that it's basically just two big tables: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/Architecture-Overview It's PostgreSQL, ThingDB, Cassandra, memcached, and RabbitMQ.
comment by da_chicken · 2017-10-23 · in MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO -
…where you can moderate it and remove any content you don't like. Or your very own installation of https://github.com/reddit/reddit ?
comment by jhgb · 2017-09-13 · in Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform -
…to a subreddit as long as they are visiting safe for work content since this commit ~2 years ago: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/commit/f6a37b64c17579b82e22... ) The release of our new ads platform also coincided with a re-release of our…
comment by jamiequint · 2017-09-12 · in Reddit's Ad Changes Reduce Your ROI -
…and self-host their code as much as possible. Reddit has a non-trivial set of dependencies ( https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/Dependencies ), so it's not very attractive as far as that goes. My from-my-ass guess is that once Reddit…
comment by thaumaturgy · 2017-09-12 · in Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform -
Reddit is kind of a pain to run at small scale because it has so many dependences: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/Dependencies .
comment by hilbertseries · 2017-09-05 · in Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit -
Isn't Reddit already open source? https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by goeric · 2017-09-05 · in Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit -
…itself is a perfectly fine open source Python project? Is their license not permissive enough? https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by monokrome · 2017-09-05 · in Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit -
Reddit is already (mostly) open-source, I think: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by saghm · 2017-09-05 · in Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit -
…[1]: http://www.makotemplates.org/ Note: Mako is used by Reddit for their template library. https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/setup.py#L62
comment by giancarlostoro · 2017-09-04 · in Learning Python Without Library Overload -
I think business software here means software like: https://github.com/reddit/reddit , https://github.com/circleci/frontend , ERP, e-commerce and so on, against general application like library/framework/language compiler/database/OS
comment by ghosthamlet · 2017-07-24 · in Ask HN: Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying? -
i think reddit in github is close with you describe, many devOps scripts also in its repos: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by ghosthamlet · 2017-07-24 · in Ask HN: Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying? -
Reddit uses Pylons iirc But see for yourself: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by dom0 · 2017-07-03 · in Django vs. Flask -
…of them in this post, but if you're curious you can see the system we currently use for it here: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/config/fe...
comment by spladug · 2017-06-03 · in The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit -
They certainly have private code, but this seems to have been recently updated: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by CJKinni · 2017-05-16 · in Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta -
Reddit | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite "The front page of the internet” - https://github.com/reddit/reddit Reddit is comprised of thousands of user-run communities, each with its own front page, unique focus, and moderator team.…
comment by reddineer · 2017-02-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017) -
…presses" applies. What you probably meant was "the audience", and no one has a right to that. [0]: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by charonn0 · 2017-02-02 · in Reddit bans Alt-Right Group -
Wow. I never knew that Reddit was open sauce: https://github.com/reddit/reddit That's an eye-opener! I always assumed Wikia was Mediawiki powered but apparently nope: https://github.com/Wikia I guess it's a separate entity to Wikipedia.…
comment by igravious · 2017-02-01 · in Open-sourcing Chrome on iOS -
> The source for Reddit [...] Src: https://github.com/reddit/reddit /blob/master/r2/setup.py Docs: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/Install-guide "Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES)" is donationware: https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-…
comment by westurner · 2017-01-03 · in Ask HN: How would one build a business that only develops free software? -
…voting algorithms were all public, but there are no commits here indicating any voting changes. https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by jordigh · 2016-12-07 · in Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters -
https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s...
comment by chromakode · 2016-11-25 · in Deleting the golang subreddit -
…then multiple UIs could render the same public & federated data set. Reddit is 100% open source: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by qz_ · 2016-11-25 · in Deleting the golang subreddit -
https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/ https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/OAuth2
comment by tantalor · 2016-10-03 · in Ask HN: Can I store a segment of Reddit pages every minute? -
…but Reddit is portable and python which is probably significantly more useful in practice: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by benologist · 2016-07-26 · in Hacker News Should be open sourced -
…persistent session access on platforms which handle re-authentication in a manner similar to this: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/1619fe1cc138aad3d9c6bc... (I got credited[1] for that gem two and a half years ago. It looks like the…
comment by eganist · 2016-05-31 · in Web Storage: the lesser evil for session tokens -
Cool, thanks. for some reason I always thought HN was using github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by kinkdr · 2016-05-31 · in Ask HN: Do you use FreeBSD as web server? Why or why not? -
…players doing A/B testing for this sort of thing on a big scale keep their data to themselves. 1. https://github.com/reddit/reddit/commit/353ad2a
comment by avar · 2016-04-11 · in Ask HN: SEO impact of HN's URL “itemid” vs. an actual title? -
…in an H1 right at the top, probably not all that much. Edit: The code in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/cfd979fa0119191257eadc...
comment by jedberg · 2016-04-11 · in Ask HN: SEO impact of HN's URL “itemid” vs. an actual title? -
…open source community [2], neither of these new apps are (and with no signs of that changing). [1] https://github.com/reddit/reddit [2] https://github.com/reddit/reddit/graphs/contributors
comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2016-04-07 · in Reddit for iOS and Android -
You'll notice that the entire source code for reddit is hosted publicly here ( https://github.com/reddit/reddit ) which makes your question that much more interesting. And the answer? It's the community and the centralization. By making a…
comment by striking · 2016-02-14 · in Ask HN: Why is there only one Reddit? -
…efficient, while avoiding bad cropping on images where the interesting content is off-centre. [0] https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/e152ff6ad9260d243a8d4e...
comment by Kudos · 2016-01-20 · in Smartcrop.js (2014) -
…insightful too. Just because the HN algorithm is wrapped in parens doesn't make it overly special. https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s...
comment by seiji · 2015-10-14 · in Hacker News ranking formula license -
…a godsend I ported a small number of pieces of reddit to Cython. Here are some simple examples: * https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s... * https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/utils... *…
comment by ketralnis · 2015-08-09 · in Cython 0.23 released -
This is a problem we had to solve at reddit a long time ago. It's called the "rising" sort: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/c6f959504466333c0d7d51...
comment by jedberg · 2015-08-05 · in The Hacker News New Page Scroll of Death and Some Possible Solutions -
…the Google News Api. Any of these services can be toggled individually in settings. [0] - Reddit - https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API [1] - HN - https://hn.algolia.com/api [2] - https://developers.google.com/news-search/v1/devguide#g…
comment by spenvo · 2015-08-02 · in Show HN: Chrome/FF plugin brings the HN and Reddit conversation to you as you surf -
…actually not something cool, maybe the ranking algorithm just wasn't in my favour. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [1] https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API
comment by rtheunissen · 2015-08-01 · in Show HN: Rockets – Reddit and websockets -
For the web developers out there, what do you think of reddit? Any honest commentary on it? https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by mahouse · 2015-07-16 · in Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read? -
Just as a side note: reddit is open source (I belive): https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by pwnna · 2015-07-03 · in Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it? -
…always dig right in! [2] [1] http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/2013/01/16/the-mathemat... [2] https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s...
comment by jkyle · 2015-06-04 · in Show HN: Free Reddit submission scheduling and vote potential estimation -
You're right according to https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/setup.py
comment by welder · 2015-04-23 · in Pirates Use Flask, the Navy Uses Django -
…and Django in the worksheet. [1]: http://www.pylonsproject.org/projects/pylons-framework/about [2]: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/search?utf8=✓&q=pylons [3]: http://www.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/about
comment by sirn · 2015-04-22 · in Pirates Use Flask, the Navy Uses Django -
Well there's Reddit: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by Veratyr · 2015-03-15 · in Build and Customize Your Own Hacker News, Reddit, or Product Hunt -
…they run a simple crawler to try and extract an image they can use as a thumbnail representation: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/af09fa8dee69bef4f65a16... If you link to a URL in Slack, they do something similar:…
comment by simonw · 2015-01-15 · in Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever -
https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by logn · 2014-12-20 · in Ask HN: I want to build a space news site. Need little help -
This post is interesting, but he should have just read the code: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/norma... This is an effect of the normalization algorithm, which biases towards trying to have a post from as may…
comment by jedberg · 2014-11-06 · in The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy -
…at all. It's "hotness" weighted by the hotness of the highest-hotness link per subreddit Hotness: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s... Front-page weighting: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/n…
comment by ketralnis · 2014-11-06 · in The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy -
…of the loop for a few years, but no the votes aren't manipulated. But the normalisation algorithm https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/norma... does prefer to get one at least of each subreddit. This means that if /r/blog…
comment by ketralnis · 2014-11-06 · in The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy -
Reddit's source is available: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by dood · 2014-11-05 · in Show HN: HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN -
isn't reddit's software open source? https://github.com/reddit/reddit
comment by Istof · 2014-10-02 · in After raising $50M, Reddit forces all remote workers to relocate to SF -
…the code formatting, just giving you a target (just hope you know who you're going after) :D https://github.com/reddit/reddit/commit/8e2737dab409c46d688c...
comment by kysol · 2014-10-01 · in Reddit source code