When I say the headline, I immediately thought it as a "the onion" equivalent of HN. The startup scene needs some parody.
The articles almost write themselves. "New silicon valley incubator 'Lambda Lifter' incubates new incubators"; "In profit maximization move, VC firm branches into Private Equity to buy out, load with debt, and bankrupt own portfolio companies"; ...
'Parsing Clojure in Clojure'
'Why I like Clojure'
'Writing great Scala code'
'Scala's dirty secret'
'Clojure clojure scala clojure, scala scala clojure'
So, like Lobster, no about page or introduction. What is this clone about?
I'm pretty sure it's a fairly old (few months, at least) clone made by antirez, the creator of Redis. Obviously it didn't quite take off.
Wasn't it more a showcase, showing what can be done with some pretty dependency-free Ruby and Redis as the main (and only) datastore/caching mechanism?
"The goal is to have a system that is very simple to understand and modify and that is able to handle a very high load using a small virtual server, ensuring at the same time a very low latency user experience."
I don't think I prefer scalability and low-latency over a high-quality of people discussing things I care about. The focus should be on community, not handling a large number of users.
I think LamerNews was more of just some fun antirez had with Redis.
All attempts at HN clones, fail to understand that what makes HN click is the community, and the same set of rules that make us angry sometimes are responsible for HN surviving these many years.