Re: Hacker News, Clojure, and GSOC

2013-04-18 Thread Zack Maril
Some fun facts: 1. You could probably get a full history of Hacker News by carefully crawling the HNSearch API[0]. Chronically crawling the new page for links would allow you to stay in synch with Hacker News proper, and a monthly refresh of the data would probably be smart to hit anything you

Hacker News, Clojure, and GSOC

2013-04-17 Thread Tim Daly
At least 2 of the people on this mailing list read Hacker News. One thing that really annoys me is the Link Expired message. If you wait more than a minute or two on a page, the NEXT button will fail to get the next news item. It seems to me that the Hacker News people need an education in using

Re: Hacker News, Clojure, and GSOC

2013-04-17 Thread Stuart Sierra
On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 3:27:59 AM UTC-4, da...@axiom-developer.org wrote: Does anyone know anyone associated with Hacker News? Can we clue them into immutable data structures? I know that Hacker News is mostly written by Paul Graham in Arc [1], his personal dialect of Lisp. As