Hacker News Should be open sourced

2 points by jjman 9 years ago | 9 comments

I am the only one who thinks that as much as possible Hacker News website source code should be published as an open source?

daveloyall 9 years ago |

Previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22news.arc%22&sort=byPopulari...

cocktailpeanuts 9 years ago |

Open sourcing the ranking algorithm to the readers of "Hacker" news obviously won't end well.

jjman 9 years ago | |

I think the latest version of the algorithm should be kept secret. But the older versions should be open sourced.

Mz 9 years ago |

I think it is. Googling got me this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390685

https://github.com/wting/hackernews

benologist 9 years ago |

In principal absolutely, but Reddit is portable and python which is probably significantly more useful in practice:

https://github.com/reddit/reddit

jjman 9 years ago | |

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.

J_Darnley 9 years ago |

I thought it was. Isn't it called Arc?

daveloyall 9 years ago | |

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.

J_Darnley 9 years ago | | |

Thanks for the clarification.