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99 mentions on Hacker News by 90 people: 3 stories, 96 comments · first 2013-01-04 · latest 2026-03-02

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  1. Have you seen this? https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by chatmasta · 2016-05-20 · in Please collapse HN comments
  2. A quick glance at https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/5a3296417d23d1ecc90... indicates that publications are delayed by this many minutes before being publicly visible. Thought the code in the repo is 4 years old and could be outdated…
    comment by jlg23 · 2016-04-26 · in Ask HN: What is the delay field for?
  3. …software they run on is "open source". HN is also "true free". Even their platform is open-source: https://github.com/wting/hackernews not that this should count that much. And donations are obvious not profit, they are not even taxed as…
    comment by nnq · 2016-03-16 · in The web's original sin
  4. …FAQ before, so that's probably where I "heard it", but I didn't think to check it this time. [0] https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by squeaky-clean · 2016-02-05 · in Dragula: Drag and drop so simple it hurts
  5. The voting code in the copy of Arc HN runs is not public (the rest of it is - https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc ) because apparently business decisions are made off of it and it would be trivial to game it. That…
  6. …code from the Internet # downloaded over an insecure link is not a good idea! # But a checkout from https://github.com/wting/hackernews.git # *failed* to run under racket... $ racket -f as.scm Use (quit) to quit, (tl) to return here after…
    comment by e12e · 2015-09-30 · in Two HN Announcements
  7. It's already available: https://github.com/wting/hackernews Though they probably will not share the code for rankbanning mechanisms and such, since the code will help out people who might want to go around it.
    comment by pen2l · 2015-09-29 · in Two HN Announcements
  8. …alternative? You could use code which powers HN itself [0]. Or you could use Telesco.pe [1]. [0] - https://github.com/wting/hackernews [1] - http://www.telescopeapp.org
  9. https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by knowbody · 2015-07-13 · in Hacker News source code?
  10. Here's a mirror of an old version of the source: https://github.com/wting/hackernews It's tightly knit to pg's Lisp dialect called Arc which attracted much fanfare years ago, but has since went off the radar.
  11. …it's just not obvious. And wasn't something that was highlighted by racket before, at least. [1] https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by e12e · 2015-06-21 · in Racket v6.2
  12. It is open source: https://github.com/wting/hackernews albeit that source is somewhat outdated. Source code (news.arc): https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc From the Arc 3 tarball: http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.tar
  13. …'(optimes topips flagged killed badguys badlogins goodlogins))) (hook 'listspage user)))) [0] https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
  14. https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/copyright
    comment by vonmoltke · 2015-03-03 · in Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity
  15. Really? https://github.com/wting/hackernews
  16. …[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) [3]: https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by iamdanfox · 2015-02-15 · in Ask HN: What is the architecture of HN?
  17. …is (outdated) source available[0] so you may be able to take a look for yourself. [0] Mirrored at https://github.com/wting/hackernews
  18. …the original version of HN from pg, but it's pretty dated and missing tons of the secret sauce. [1] https://github.com/wting/hackernews
  19. Take a look here: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/f221fcb07db5fd23570... CMD+F karma
    comment by acangiano · 2014-11-05 · in Ask HN: How does the HN karma system work?
  20. Thanks another issue this - https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki or this? - https://github.com/wting/hackernews
  21. …at an older version of the code it matches that up to data loaded from a file called arc/cooks https://github.com/wting/hackernews/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=...
    comment by wmil · 2014-10-23 · in Who am I?
  22. …for all the stories (plus the 'more' link), including the html (note the inline 'tr' tags etc). https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L92... The point is that all the variable you want for rendering "page 2" are right…
    comment by jbert · 2014-10-08 · in What we did about expired links on HN
  23. Exactly an hour, in fact: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L11...
  24. …foo" trick all over the place. (Or at least, the most recent version of news.arc I've seen does.) https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/arc.arc#L841
  25. …is in these languages, if it's even good at all. I know this website is written in Arc (a Lisp). https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by rthomas6 · 2014-05-15 · in My Opinionated Guide To Go
  26. …of the system, but I don't remember where I heard that. [0] Based on this handy Github repository: https://github.com/wting/hackernews Original: http://arclanguage.org/install
    comment by alecdbrooks · 2014-04-18 · in An Update on HN Comments
  27. Looks like the same platform, the code is available here: https://github.com/wting/hackernews
  28. Isn't (part of/some version of) hn already open source?: http://arclanguage.org/install https://github.com/wting/hackernews Is the current hn very different from the arclang forum?
  29. https://github.com/wting/hackernews ... though obviously the real thing isn't open source, as pg and kogir have made numerous changes they're not releasing and AFAIK they're not taking pull requests on news.ycombinator.com (but they do…
  30. Not really related but any update on releasing the HN code again? [the current release is pretty old: https://github.com/wting/hackernews ]
    comment by hartator · 2014-01-16 · in Tell HN: Server Status
  31. Seems like they should add one. Might be a good reason to learn Scheme... https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by andy_ppp · 2013-12-26 · in What is it like to be a geek in a prison?
  32. https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by ics · 2013-12-12 · in Hacker news for data scientists
  33. HN is open source. You can download from Github and install it yourself. https://github.com/wting/hackernews
  34. …making any kind of changes to the rendered document would be potentially horribly painful: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/html.arc (sorry... I'm sure people think this is awesome because zomg Lisp but in any other language…
  35. This?: https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by IgorPartola · 2013-12-04 · in Ask HN: Is HN open source?
  36. https://github.com/wting/hackernews
  37. X should be 24 hours https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L10...
  38. hmm. ya just got the source code here : https://github.com/wting/hackernews
  39. …code[4] and setting it up, but im not sure if you'll need multiple subreddits functionality. [1] https://github.com/wting/hackernews [2] http://telesc.pe/ [3] http://demo.telesc.pe/ [4] https://github.com/reddit/reddit
  40. Sure it does. HN is written in "Arc": https://github.com/wting/hackernews Arc runs on Racket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) See the "OS" section where it says "runs on the Racket compiler" See also the Arc source…
    comment by gcr · 2013-05-02 · in Probably the worst URL scheme ever
  41. Maybe it is hidden deep in the source code ( https://github.com/wting/hackernews ), the problem is that Arc is basically unreadable if you're used to stuff like C/C++/Java/PHP/Assembler.
  42. HN is also an open-source demo of the Arc language https://github.com/wting/hackernews
  43. It is open source found a GitHub Mirror here https://github.com/wting/hackernews And the site gets rendered in this file https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc The main problem is HN looks like a science project to me and…
  44. …for example see a mirror on [1]. The canonical source should be in the arc distribution. [1]: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc
  45. …in that sense. See http://arclanguage.org/ - it's the example app (news.arc). A git mirror is here: https://github.com/wting/hackernews
  46. It is open sourced. https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by wyuenho · 2013-01-04 · in Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN?