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Re:Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online? by darkerside on Saturday August 24, 2019 @08:54PM (#20790671)
Continuing the tangent... I wonder why HN isn't open source?
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Re:Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online? by nf8nnfufuu on Sunday August 25, 2019 @04:27AM (#20791963)
It used to be, maybe it still is https://github.com/wting/hackernews (7 years ago)

Iirc they didn't want to publish details of the ranking algorithm at some point, to prevent "hacking" of submissions.

Maybe they stopped publishing the code since then.

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