Some fun facts: 1. You could probably get a full history of Hacker News by carefully crawling the HNSearch API[0]. Chronically crawling the new page for links would allow you to stay in synch with Hacker News proper, and a monthly refresh of the data would probably be smart to hit anything you might miss. 2. The source code for an early version of Hacker News has been floating around, distributed with Arc if I remember correctly. From PG's comments, the main updates to the site has mainly been dealing with spammers and voting ring detection.
Combining the two together, it is quite possible to make a read-only version of hacker news with a full history and proper linking. Most of the changes have been made only to the write only sections. So, it would be pretty straightforward to clone hacker news and keep it cloned if you throw out the write parts. Additionally, if you got the lag for updates down below a few seconds, you could piggyback off hacker news and just redirect submissions and comments there (you could even really tricky with an iframe if that tickles your fancy). In that manner, you could clone the functionality of hacker news with a full history. It seems like this wouldn't even really take a whole summer to do. Maybe a week of concentrated effort, depending on how fast you can pull down the data from the API and how well you understand your stack. -Zack [0] https://www.hnsearch.com/api On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:13:19 PM UTC+4, Stuart Sierra wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 3:27:59 AM UTC-4, da...@axiom-developer.orgwrote: >> >> Does anyone know anyone associated with Hacker News? >> Can we clue them into immutable data structures? >> > > I know that Hacker News is mostly written by Paul Graham in Arc [1], his > personal dialect of Lisp. As such, it's unlikely anyone will be able to > convince him to switch to Clojure. :) > > P.G. recently wrote an article [2] about how he broke the site when > manipulating the production database from the REPL. > > -S > > [1]: http://paulgraham.com/arc.html > [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673 > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
