Ask HN: Is there a technical writeup on the implementation of Hacker News?

8 pointsbrundolf3 comments

I've gathered it's written in Arc lisp, and I've found various threads where people ask specific questions about it which are then answered by pg or dang, but I'm curious if there's been a comprehensive write-up somewhere. If nothing else, I'd be curious just to see what a non-toy lisp website looks like under the hood.

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Here's an early retro from 2009 about HN, but I don't think he dives into the technology choices much, more about community building: http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

I can't remember where now but I thought someone posted a link to the source for the first version that went live (it was a single source file).

I haven't seen or read anything about the hardware or infrastructure.

Might be this: https://github.com/shawwn/arc/blob/arc3.1/news.arc (posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30898803 today).

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