[outworlder]

> I think the arc codebase is worth studying and understanding

Are you talking about the source code for ARC, or for Hacker News?

It would be interesting to see how ARC is being employed on such a high profile site. I expect that some algorithms won't be freely available so as not enable people to game the site, but the rest would be interesting to see.

I could find any source for Hacker News though.

> And since code is data, a lisp master can write systems with a shocking number of features in shockingly few lines of code

You don't even have to be a master. So much bikeshedding has been spent over the decades. We are still going back and forth on data interchange formats...

[e12e]

> I could find any source for Hacker News though.

Current hn code (as in the actual code that delivers this comment) isn't open AFAIK (partly because of the shadow banning, filtering etc code.

But there's a full "news" site in Arc source - old and more maintained/evolved:

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/news.a...

http://arclanguage.org/install

[sillysaurus3]

Whoops, that's Anarki, not Arc.

pg's and rtm's original arc3.1 is on the "official" branch: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/official

news.arc is the old HN source code. You can run it by following the steps in how-to-run-news.

(Run it with "mzscheme -f as.scm" though, not mzscheme.)