[jcr]

The Arc programming language [1] was created by Paul Graham (and Robert T. Morris). Arc was used to create the original "Startup News" site which eventually became "Hacker News". Kogir is one of the developers at Y Combinator that currently works on the HN code.

[1] http://arclanguage.org/

[kogir]

I wrote this when I started working on HN, though I've since left YC and no longer work on HN.