Re:Amazon Reports Surge in Profit
by nxzero on Thursday April 28, 2016 @06:43PM
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This is something HN should just do anyway; that is high rep users flag a source as paywalled, and going forward the submitting user gets an alert with suggested alt links. No idea why HN isn't open source with an open source API to insert data too.
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A variation of it is open source. The anti-spam features are guarded secrets.
They take a pretty conservative approach to adding features.
By variation, do you mean a clone. If so, that's not what I mean, I mean that the site is open source, community is able to make pull requests, and it's a community driven resource, that driven by content, code and community, not an singular interface.
By variation I mean HN is based on http://arclanguage.org/install ... I don't know how much the code bases have diverged.
They do have an API: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api
Yes, ARC is a great example of how a PG project should be open sourced and run by the community.
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API is read-only; API should be "full service" and the first interface to HN, not a supplement.
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Yeah, whole ARC (aka PG) thing is an issue too; FYI, those install direction are dated, here's the info: http://arclanguage.org/user?id=akkartik
PG doesn't even appear to be actively involved in ARC anymore: http://arclanguage.org/user?id=pg
Find it hard to believe if YC funded a startup like HN that they wouldn't require an explanation of why ARC made sense as the language of choice.