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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. HN is basically an instance of the arclanguage's example app, 'news.arc'. See: https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by niftich · 2016-10-17 · in Ask HN: Why isn't Hacker News open-source?
  2. I think it is. Googling got me this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390685 https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by Mz · 2016-07-26 · in Hacker News Should be open sourced
  3. Have you seen this? https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by chatmasta · 2016-05-20 · in Please collapse HN comments
  4. 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 Thought the code in the repo is 4 years old and could be outdated…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?
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. 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…
    comment by i336_ · 2016-01-01 · in Tell HN: I’d like to sponsor your passion project
  8. …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
  9. 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
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    Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?
    story by i336_ · 2015-08-02 · 108 comments
  11. …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
    comment by avinassh · 2015-07-22 · in Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?
  12. https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by knowbody · 2015-07-13 · in Hacker News source code?
  13. 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.
    comment by vezzy-fnord · 2015-06-23 · in Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday from 11 am to 1 pm PDT
  14. …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
  15. 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
    comment by gvb · 2015-04-28 · in Make hacker news open source and let some magic happen
  16. …'(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
    comment by malisper · 2015-03-17 · in HTML as a programming language – unifying HTML with Erlang
  17. https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/copyright
    comment by vonmoltke · 2015-03-03 · in Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity
  18. Really? https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by jcl · 2015-03-03 · in Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity
  19. …[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?
  20. …is (outdated) source available[0] so you may be able to take a look for yourself. [0] Mirrored at https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by yzzxy · 2014-11-13 · in Tell HN: Hacker News Profile Leak (Fixed)
  21. …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
    comment by chriskelley · 2014-11-05 · in Show HN: HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN
  22. 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?
  23. Thanks another issue this - https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki or this? - https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by mattpatt · 2014-10-31 · in Ask HN: Is the source code for HN freely available?
  24. …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?
  25. …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
  26. Exactly an hour, in fact: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L11...
    comment by 3ifbyw · 2014-09-28 · in Bash bug: apply the unofficial patch now (CVE-2014-6277)
  27. …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
    comment by sigil · 2014-06-10 · in Tell HN: The site was offline. What changed?
  28. …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
  29. …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
  30. Looks like the same platform, the code is available here: https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by lewispollard · 2014-02-27 · in Ask HN: Is there a science news platform like hacker news?
  31. 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?
    comment by e12e · 2014-02-16 · in Show HN: Pumpkin – An open-source HN clone
  32. 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…
    comment by krapp · 2014-02-16 · in Show HN: Pumpkin – An open-source HN clone
  33. 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
  34. 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?
  35. https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by ics · 2013-12-12 · in Hacker news for data scientists
  36. HN is open source. You can download from Github and install it yourself. https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by t0 · 2013-12-09 · in Ask HN: How exactly can I clone HN for another industry?
  37. …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…
    comment by krapp · 2013-12-08 · in Show HN: Coinspotting - A Hacker News For Bitcoins and Other Cryptocurrencies
  38. This?: https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by IgorPartola · 2013-12-04 · in Ask HN: Is HN open source?
  39. https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by djoldman · 2013-12-04 · in Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
  40. X should be 24 hours https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L10...
    comment by linc01n · 2013-10-18 · in You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
  41. hmm. ya just got the source code here : https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by pranavk · 2013-06-21 · in Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
  42. …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
    comment by xSwag · 2013-05-02 · in Ask HN: How to build a Hacker-News-like website using Wordpress?
  43. 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
  44. 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.
    comment by mschuster91 · 2013-04-21 · in Ask HN: What are the HN karmic privileges/penalties?
  45. HN is also an open-source demo of the Arc language https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by attheodo · 2013-04-11 · in Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News/Reddit-like open source platform?
  46. 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…
    comment by spdy · 2013-03-26 · in Would it be hard to have a mobile style sheet for HN with pressable buttons?
  47. …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
    comment by emillon · 2013-03-25 · in Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content
  48. …in that sense. See http://arclanguage.org/ - it's the example app (news.arc). A git mirror is here: https://github.com/wting/hackernews
    comment by Zak · 2013-01-04 · in Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN?
  49. 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?