hackernews

https://github.com/wting/hackernews Or use this, rebrand it; but I don't know if people in other fields would be turned off by the aesthetic and simplicity (?) I remember seeing some green themed website that used Arc as a forum but I completely forgot what it was. Pretty active as well.

I wish `dang` would take some time to go through the website and make some usability updates. HN still uses a font-size value that usually renders to 12px by default as well, making it look insanely small on most modern devices, etc. At quick glance, it looks like they're still using the same CSS that was made public ~13 years ago: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/5a3296417d23d1ecc90...

https://github.com/wting/hackernews Here you can look up the algorithm. But I think it's what gets the clicks and upvotes, that gets promoted. So. It's a community thing, I guess.

It just persists its in-memory data structures to disk. Here's the source of an old version; note uses of `diskvar` and `disktable`. A "table" here is just a hashtable. https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc

Indeed. I'm fine with HN though. I'm not the one running the non free code. One can browse it and participate to it without running any proprietary software. It works without JS, and the JS code is trivially small anyway. There are open source clients too. That's a pass for me. The day this changes, you won't see me here anymore. That would correspond to the NonFreeNet antifeature in F-Droid [1]. They could update the code they released for good measure though [2]. Running Discord is on another level for me. I would consider accessing a Discord using a Matrix or IRC bridge. [1] https://f-droid.org/docs/Anti-Features/#NonFreeNet [2] https://github.com/wting/hackernews

(I personally agree with you, but I just wanted to point out that https://news.ycombinator.com/front is how to see yesterday's front page at any given time. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2024-01-19 makes it clear who the black bar was about.) One (rather cold) way of viewing the situation is that if they spend their time adding this feature, it's at the expense of something else they could be doing. There are technical reasons it's not quite as straightforward as just setting a title attribute. Here's precisely how the black bar works: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/5a3296417d23d1ecc90... ; (tr (tdcolor black (vspace 5))) They uncomment that line of code by removing the semicolon, then deploy it. ("Deploy" is also known as "copy-pasting that function into a REPL," but devs like to overcomplicate it in other lang

this might help a little: https://github.com/wting/hackernews

I think it's a ratio of votes to time. I think as little as 4 votes can get something on the homepage if they come in fairly quickly. The source code for hn is available if you want to go and look up the specifics. I'm not sure if this is the most up-to-date mirror, but the site doesn't change that often: https://github.com/wting/hackernews

> Coincidentally, the forum we're commenting on right now uses a fork of the original Reddit codebase The current codebase was developed from scratch - zero forking - from what I can see. HN is written in ARC http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html which is a language designed by Paul Graham. Here’s a thread talking about the early days of HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27452276 and it mentions “The earliest version of HN I can find; 166 LOC” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723767 Here’s Paul talking about the release of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html AFAIK this is the latest public copy of the HN code, but it is significantly outdated: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc

Might not count as modern, but the original Reddit and HackerNews codebases: - https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0 - https://github.com/wting/hackernews

https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc Out of date, but you can read the ARC code as HN was 11 years ago.

There's also this https://github.com/wting/hackernews -- which is a version of the source code to the site from sometime in the past.

"Otherwise" was the operative word in my (slightly sarcastic) example. :) Avoiding all caps for emphasis means you sometimes have to change "Faa" back to "FAA" after submitting a story about the Federal Aviation Administration. And avoiding grammatically-incorrect or all-lowercase headlines means you sometimes have to change "Strcmp()" back to "strcmp()". HN's software is no longer open source, but at one time, this is how it processed titles on initial submission: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L15... (This function does add capitals as well as remove them.)