Where is the Hacker News source code?

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I'd like to play around with the HN source, does anyone know where an updated repo lives?

http://arclanguage.org there is a tar file under the install link and the news source is in there. Others in the community have ports etc on github. Check out the forum on the arclang site.

Thanks. That doesn't appear to be the latest HN though (no search for example)

That's right: It lags the site by quite a bit and it's missing a number of "secret sauce" features that PG doesn't want people to know how to game.

I'm pretty certain search is done using an outside service and is not in the released source...

It's done by the octoparts team IIRC. It's an external service they sell that HN gets for free. (Again; IIRC.)

EDIT: From the "news news" page: (http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html)

We now finally have search for HN, thanks to Octopart, who've been working on it for a while as a test of their new search database, ThriftDB. You'll see a search box at the bottom of most pages.

Sorry this took so long. For a while we hoped to implement our own search, but it became apparent that would take a lot of work to do right. So we were delighted when Octopart decided to get into the search as a service business.

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