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by dwynings 5145 days ago
Little known fact: the source code is available.

http://arclanguage.org/install
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kens 5145 days ago
Note that the released source code is pretty different from the actual running site. In particular, all the rsvp code that caused the problem is not in the released source.

The HN source code is in the Arc language. See my site http://files.arcfn.com/doc/index.html for Arc documentation, specifically http://files.arcfn.com/doc/srv.html for the web server internals (including why links expire). Also see the App Server page which explains account management.

If you want to hack on this, there's a small but enthusiastic Arc community at http://arclanguage.org/forum

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rmATinnovafy 5145 days ago
I did not know that. Thanks for the link. I shall go and dust off my LISP.

Now, if any fix is written, where is it to be submitted?

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dwynings 5145 days ago
I'm not sure... you may have to email pg
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rmATinnovafy 5145 days ago
That's the reason to have the code up on github. I don't want to bother PG over this stuff.
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