Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News back end open source alternative?

Posted by theowenyoung on Monday October 11, 2021 @04:16PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi, I've seen a lot of front-end page replacements for hacker news, but are there any back-end open-source clones of hacker news?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News back end open source alter... by krapp on Monday October 11, 2021 @07:11PM (#28834154)

The current version of Arc Lisp (which includes the forum) can be found at http://arclanguage.org/

And the public, open source fork of Arc and the forum are at https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

Bear in mind nothing publicly available is at feature parity with Hacker News because HN is essentially closed source for various (mostly YC business) reasons.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News back end open source alter... by simon_acca on Monday October 11, 2021 @06:11PM (#28833673)

Here’s the original: https://github.com/wting/hackernews

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News back end open source alter... by jessikat on Monday October 11, 2021 @04:31PM (#28832700)

Lobste.rs is one: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News back end open source alter... by theowenyoung on Monday October 11, 2021 @04:39PM (#28832787)

Thanks! that's exactly I want.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News back end open source alter... by bartmika on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @12:28AM (#28836062)

Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

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