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Re:Original Hacker News Source Code (2009) by dang on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:20PM (#27452653)
Related old threads:

The earliest version of HN I can find; 166 LOC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723767 - July 2009 (19 comments)

Preliminary release of new Arc version, including latest HN source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=634113 - May 2009 (9 comments)

News.YC open-sourced - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122829 - Feb 2008 (20 comments)

Arc's Out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=106398 - Jan 2008 (124 comments)

Others?

Re:Original Hacker News Source Code (2009) by dvfjsdhgfv on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:57PM (#27453126)
> The earliest version of HN I can find; 166 LOC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723767 - July 2009 (19 comments)

Unfortunately the original file (news.6sep06.arc) seems to be missing, anyone has a copy?

Re:Original Hacker News Source Code (2009) by msla on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:43PM (#27453637)
Re:Original Hacker News Source Code (2009) by dvfjsdhgfv on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:10AM (#27457359)
Thanks! There's something beautiful about early versions of popular projects that expanded later: you can basically grasp the concept of how everything works together and what the basic ideas were, simplicity at its best.