I'm working toward making a Hacker News simulator in the vein of https://reddit.com/r/subsimulatorgpt2 (but using HN's code instead of a subreddit).
To do that, I'm building sharc, a port of Hacker News that runs on Common Lisp, implementing all the latest features of HN. (That last bit is the hard part.) https://github.com/shawwn/sharc