Hacker News Should be open sourced

Previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22news.arc%22&sort=byPopulari...

Open sourcing the ranking algorithm to the readers of "Hacker" news obviously won't end well.

I think the latest version of the algorithm should be kept secret. But the older versions should be open sourced.

I think it is. Googling got me this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390685

In principal absolutely, but Reddit is portable and python which is probably significantly more useful in practice:

I think all options should be available to the public so they can choose which platform suits best their end goals. And I believe Hacker news is simple and yet functional.

I thought it was. Isn't it called Arc?

Arc is a language. news.arc is an example program that ships with it. HN is a deployment of that app, with non-open source changes.

Thanks for the clarification.