LOlogn·Dec 20, 2014
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reddit
Python2010–2024
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historical code from reddit.com
148Distinct people
170Mentions
3Explicit recommenders
16.9KGitHub stars
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What it is
historical code from reddit.com
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What people are saying
If you use Python for anything remotely performance sensitive, I highly recommend giving Cython a shot. The trick is to find your computation-intensive inner loop stuff, move…
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:27:21 AM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by year170 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2010-07-01 14:04:07 UTC to 2024-01-01 19:05:34 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 21 | 2 | 19 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 18 | 3 | 15 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 25 | 6 | 19 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 1 | 12 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 1 | 12 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 19 | 0 | 19 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 24 | 1 | 23 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
25 sourcesReddit's Chris Dary's final comment on the upvote downvote being displayed
2 points · Open discussionThis post is interesting, but he should have just read the code:
https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/norma...
This is an effect of the normalization algorithm, which biases towards trying to have a post from as may different subreddits as possible on the front page.
Edit: At least we're consistent! Ketralnis said the same thing about an hour ago. :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8568021
In The Reddit Front Page Is Not a MeritocracyIt's not votes weighted by subscriber count at all. It's "hotness" weighted by the hotness of the highest-hotness link per subreddit
Hotness: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s...
Front-page weighting: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/norma...
In The Reddit Front Page Is Not a MeritocracyI've been out of the loop for a few years, but no the votes aren't manipulated.
But the normalisation algorithm https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/norma... does prefer to get one at least of each subreddit. This means that if /r/blog has a post it will probably be placed on the front page immediately. That action gets it a lot of votes just because it's very visible.
In The Reddit Front Page Is Not a MeritocracyReddit's source is available: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
In Show HN: HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HNisn't reddit's software open source?
https://github.com/reddit/reddit
In After raising $50M, Reddit forces all remote workers to relocate to SFNot for/against the code formatting, just giving you a target (just hope you know who you're going after) :D
https://github.com/reddit/reddit/commit/8e2737dab409c46d688c...
In Reddit source codeAh. Sorry, I didn't understand this point. I agree it is totally superfluous to declare a license on an empty file.
But I assume that they have this header on every file as part of their internal process. Hence, they don't make an exception for empty files. I would book it as a cost of this process.
Also, it is handy if somebody starts appending to it ( i.e. https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/autho... ) , they don't need to take care of that the license is correct.
In Reddit source codeI am well aware of why an empty __init__.py is necessary. It is less clear why one must add license boilerplate to such a file: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/config/__...
> you may not use this file except in compliance with the License
This is patently absurd: the file contains no content other than the license itself, and arguably its name (which is shared by millions of other __init__.py files around the world).
In Reddit source codeWhat causes people to need to sprinkle license boilerplate everywhere, including in files which are otherwise completely empty (like r2/r2/config/__init__.py), and then to have to update them every year? See this commit: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/commit/90cfcaaecc56cf35e758...
It just seems to defy reason that we must make humans increment a number every year in every file in our projects, nevermind the fact that the top 20-30 lines of every file in our projects has been taken over by stuff most readers don't actually need to read (again and again).
Is this really the best we can do without somehow letting the bad guys take our home away due to some licensing gotcha? Like simply having this at the top of each file:
# see the top-level LICENSE file
In Reddit source codeFor the most part, yes.
Repository: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
In Ask HN: Are there startups that went open-source and succeed?The code is [0], but I don't think the data is.
[0] https://github.com/reddit/reddit
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