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 might miss.
2. The source code for an early version of Hacker News has been floating
around, distributed with Arc if I remember correctly. From PG's comments,
the main updates to the site has mainly been dealing with spammers and
voting ring detection.
Combining the two together, it is quite possible to make a read-only
version of hacker news with a full history and proper linking. Most of the
changes have been made only to the write only sections. So, it would be
pretty straightforward to clone hacker news and keep it cloned if you throw
out the write parts. Additionally, if you got the lag for updates down
below a few seconds, you could piggyback off hacker news and just redirect
submissions and comments there (you could even really tricky with an iframe
if that tickles your fancy). In that manner, you could clone the
functionality of hacker news with a full history. It seems like this
wouldn't even really take a whole summer to do. Maybe a week of
concentrated effort, depending on how fast you can pull down the data from
the API and how well you understand your stack.
-Zack
[0] https://www.hnsearch.com/api
On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:13:19 PM UTC+4, Stuart Sierra wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 3:27:59 AM UTC-4, da...@axiom-developer.orgwrote:
>>
>> 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 such, it's unlikely anyone will be able to
> convince him to switch to Clojure. :)
>
> P.G. recently wrote an article [2] about how he broke the site when
> manipulating the production database from the REPL.
>
> -S
>
> [1]: http://paulgraham.com/arc.html
> [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673
>
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