[thrwaway69]

Uh no. You definitely can.

MVC isn't unique to those frameworks or languages. It's just an architecture. You can find many MVC frameworks in js.

Secondly, you don't need MVC architecture to build HN. You can use a different pattern and still have a server side rendered app that reloads on each page click.

Also, afaik HN uses firebase to expose an api. You can directly store data to firebase from client side. So you still don't need those full stack frameworks to build HN.