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by crispyporkbites 2461 days ago
Why isn’t HN open source? It is after all hacker, news
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RandomBacon 2461 days ago
An older/vanilla version of HN is. Since then, secret sauce algorithms have been added. If it was public, it might be easier for someone to game the system.

It's written in Arc (a dialect of Lisp) and included in the Arc distribution:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390685

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