Ask HN : HN opensource implementation .

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607749

by vp001 • 17 years ago

2 4 17 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

I was looking for a simple social website open source implementation . Site like Hacker News .Is there any open source implementation available if I want my own HN like site . I love the simplicity of the site .

evannyx• 17 years ago

The source code for HN is included in the Arc distribution.

rms• 17 years ago

If you're not a Lisp hacker you really don't want to run your own news.arc.

http://www.slinkset.com is the easiest option, they have a theme that looks like HN.

SwellJoe• 17 years ago

For what it's worth, I was able to get arc and the HN source up and running in about 20 minutes using instructions I found by googling. I'm not a Lisp hacker, and my only real exposure to anything Lisp was reading The Little Schemer a few years ago...I didn't even do most of the exercises. I was also able to customize it in a few small ways with another hour or so of tinkering (mostly cleaning up style sheets and stripping out inline HTML).

Just saying...I do think Slinkset is probably the right choice for most such concepts.

Or, the reddit source, if you wanted to go big (it's a lot harder to deploy the reddit source, but it's a lot more powerful). It took me about an hour to get it up and running. And customizing it seemed much more intimidating.

kbrower• 17 years ago

there is also pligg and reddit

Ask HN : HN opensource implementation .

Related Stories