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Ah, I thought this sounded familiar. From a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6896237

Has there been some sort of update/change to the site or is this post a (re)discovery of said site?

I run DataTau. It's just rediscovery that probably motivated the post.

Changes are in the pipeline. I was waiting to roll them out before posting here.

For those who are interested in creating your own "HackewNews for XYZ", try out

http://postatic.com

(I'm a developer at Postatic)

We've been in public beta for a few months, there are about 1000 HackerNews for XYZ sites (or we call it communities).

We don't have a feature for discovering these sites yet - but they are on their way. Here are a few example sites that some of our users run.

- HN for curated list of online tools for communication - http://tools.robingood.com/

- HN for Startup news - http://www.heystartup.com

- HN for Swift programmers - http://swift.postatic.com

- HN for Standup comedy - http://stan-dupco-medy.postatic.com

- HN for Skateboarders - http://www.hammerrank.com

That is nice, and congratulations on your relative success.

But personally, using a service kind of takes the fun out of it.

It looks very nice... congrats! just one thing. For some reason IE doesn't show it up properly: http://imgur.com/Qr5EtnR

Thanks for pointing it out! It should look ok now.

Love the technology. Since you're in the space, maybe you can answer this question I've been wondering for awhile - what are inbound.org and outbounding.org built on? As in what template/what CMS?

According to Dharmesh, Inbound.org is a custom app built on the LAMP stack. http://inbound.org/discussion/view/we-build-grow-and-manage-...

Not sure about outbounding.org though.

Thanks Joseph.

For inbound.org - http://builtwith.com/inbound.org ?

Hey HN! We'd like to welcome you to DataTau!

If you're a data scientist or an ML enthusiast, please do engage/start discussions over in DataTau. That'd be splendid!

We've been trying to keep posts there pretty technical there and the community loves it so far. Think of DataTau as a place where you go to learn/share things you've learned from getting your hands dirty with data/Machine Learning/statistics/science!

i have become a frequent visitor to your site in the past couple of months. and it always struck me as odd the fact that you don't have any way of contacting the site owner(s) -- offline - in case something is not working (e.g., i have posted some articles, using a different handle in case you check, and my score is still sitting at "1") or you have a question (that doesn't concern the list as a whole).

i'm sure i can't be the only data tau user with issues.

plus those of us coming to your site, after being schooled in hn etiquette, have high expectations on how a site like your's, as a hacker news clone -- and not some out of the box knockoff -- should operate/behave.

When I was last here it was mostly post-for-post consistent with /r/MachineLearning.

What other Hacker News for Xes are out there?

There are over 200 results of HN stories along this line[0]. Just eyeballing the list, it seems as though there is quite a variety.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hacker+news+for+#!/story/sort_by_d...

Designer News: https://news.layervault.com/

Occasionally has some gems for front-end dev.

HN for woodworkers: www.woodspotting.com

Hacker News for Business Bootstrappers and Digital Nomads: http://www.bootstrappers.io

Can HN Utility Suite be made to work on it?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...

I find HN without it less appealing.

Is the HN platform open source?

http://arclang.org/

Arc is just the language the forum was written in yeah? Is the forum system itself open source?

Yes, the forum is open source too.

Although as far as I know the only thing implemented in Arc is the forum so they might as well be the same thing.

Both the language and the forum are licensed under the "Perl Foundations's Artistic License 2.0."

If you download Arc, there is a text file called "how-to-run-news" in the tar.

would love it if there was one focused on algo trading/quant finance

I imagine that, given the nature of the business, they don't share an awful lot.

There used to be one [0] but it looks like it has since shut down. It seems there is a "Hacker news for $practice" every few months and they have moderate traffic then languish after a few weeks. /r/algotrading occasionally has some interesting discussions. I think that and Nuclear Phynance might be your best bet.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844565

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