[albertsun]

While Hacker News is focused on hacking/coding, that will almost certainly be the easiest part of what you're trying to do.

What will make the difference in whether or not you shake up the news industry is the type of content you create and how you create it, not the software that runs the site.

My advice to you is to get the easiest possible writing platform (that means WordPress) running, and then spend your time writing and putting out those "short, sweet facts." Try and find other people to do this as well.

Then get as many people as you can to read the site and see what they think of it.