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Hacker News Should be open sourced

2 points by jjman ↗ HN
I am the only one who thinks that as much as possible Hacker News website source code should be published as an open source?

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J_Darnley
I thought it was. Isn't it called Arc?
daveloyall
Arc is a language. news.arc is an example program that ships with it. HN is a deployment of that app, with non-open source changes.
benologist
In principal absolutely, but Reddit is portable and python which is probably significantly more useful in practice:

https://github.com/reddit/reddit

jjman
I think all options should be available to the public so they can choose which platform suits best their end goals. And I believe Hacker news is simple and yet functional.
cocktailpeanuts
Open sourcing the ranking algorithm to the readers of "Hacker" news obviously won't end well.
jjman
I think the latest version of the algorithm should be kept secret. But the older versions should be open sourced.