Ask PG: Why is Hacker News not Open Source?
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Unrelated, but there are good open source clones like https://github.com/antirez/lamernews
Ask OP: Why SHOULD it be open source?
1. Asking "Why isn't it this" without a "this is why it should be this" is such an easy argument it must always be ignored
2. Hacker News is a Y Combinator entity. If it were to be open source, it would be open source to YC people only I can only assume.
1. Asking "Why isn't it this" without a "this is why it should be this" is such an easy argument it must always be ignored
2. Hacker News is a Y Combinator entity. If it were to be open source, it would be open source to YC people only I can only assume.
1) because we could then help make it better (or make a couple HNs)
I believe there is an old version available.
2) open source for some people but not for others is an interesting concept.
I believe there is an old version available.
2) open source for some people but not for others is an interesting concept.
also, if e.g. the algos for the rank of the articles would be known exactly, it would make it substentially easier to game them...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494421
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=711613
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4285617/how-do-i-install-...