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darkerside on Aug 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online?

Continuing the tangent... I wonder why HN isn't open source?

nf8nnfufuu on Aug 25, 2019 [–]

It used to be, maybe it still is https://github.com/wting/hackernews (7 years ago)

Iirc they didn't want to publish details of the ranking algorithm at some point, to prevent "hacking" of submissions.

Maybe they stopped publishing the code since then.

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