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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Hacker News open-source? by dkokelley on Monday October 17, 2016 @12:38AM (#12722717)
If memory serves me correctly, it was (is) [1] open sourced on the Arc language, but certain spam catching and ranking algorithms were made closed to prevent gaming.

[1] http://arclanguage.org/install

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Hacker News open-source? by personjerry on Monday October 17, 2016 @12:42AM (#12722729)
IIRC Lobsters[0] is an open-source[1] alternative, if you want.

[0] https://lobste.rs/

[1] https://github.com/jcs/lobsters

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Hacker News open-source? by niftich on Monday October 17, 2016 @12:45AM (#12722741)
HN is basically an instance of the arclanguage's example app, 'news.arc'.

See: https://github.com/wting/hackernews

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Hacker News open-source? by smt88 on Monday October 17, 2016 @01:21AM (#12722836)
It's a product intended to benefit for-profit companies, and it doesn't require community input to function. What benefit is there for anyone if it's open-source? It's hardly the best UX in this category of software.
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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Hacker News open-source? by nwrk on Monday October 17, 2016 @01:29AM (#12722867)
There is also open source Telescope app, Meteor self-hosted hacker news/reddit website

[1] http://www.telescopeapp.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Hacker News open-source? by joeblow9999 on Monday October 17, 2016 @12:37AM (#12722714)
What does that even mean?
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