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News.YC open-sourced

127 pointsby 18y agoarclanguage.org
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18y agoHN ↗

Awesome to hear! I've been poking at lisp dialects a lot lately and it'll be nice to have a the code of an Arc-based system that I've used before.

Possibly just me, but just staring at code listings alone doesn't do much for me. But picking through the code of something I can then go play with in the wild is a huge help.

Thanks again!

18y agoHN ↗

OK boys start inventing those modding algorithms.

Let's see if the last weeks talk of fluff has been just that, or whether someone here can come up with something great. My intuition says yes...

18y agoHN ↗

Theoretically there could be dozens of news.yc front pages, each based off a different algorithm but all drawing from the same new page. Then you could vote front pages up or down, with the algorithm of the currently-winning front page hot swapping with the the previous algorithm. Of course you would need to do the same to select the algorithm that controlled the gravity on the algorithm voting page, to make sure that people didn't vote for fluff algorithms. And so on. Maybe the ideal news.yc is just news.yc all the way down.

18y agoHN ↗

Ultimately (after some refactoring and removal of YC-specific stuff) it turns out to be 1411 LOC.

18y agoHN ↗

with a bit of work, I'm sure you can get it down to 1337 :~).

18y agoHN ↗

That would be hard, actually-- at least without resorting to formatting tricks.

I spent about 10 days cleaning up the code. By the time I released it, I was only cutting about 30 lines a day. And that kind of work has rapidly diminishing returns. I'd have a hard time getting it under 1400.

18y agoHN ↗

Interesting! I especially like how you handle automatic image extraction - is it open-sourced?

18y agoHN ↗

As an outsider: Well done Paul. It takes a lot to open source a working application.

18y agoHN ↗

this action would really make me spend some time, at some point, with Arc by trying to understand the code

18y agoHN ↗

If anyone else gets curious about the hardcoded in domain that gets you auto-banned, I'll state what should have been obvious and say that it really isn't worth it.

18y agoHN ↗

internet is serious business DOT com

get rolled at your own risk

18y agoHN ↗

You missed the joke... I had already seen it in the source, I was just trying to bait someone to post a link :-). It didn't occur to me to see what was there, though. I had just assumed it was a spam site.

18y agoHN ↗

At least now I can say that I've been rick rolled by PG himself.

18y agoHN ↗

i just had to go digging in news.arc and find that url..gah

18y agoHN ↗

We've found an interesting use for it in our offices already. I tossed it on our main server and we're using it in conjunction with our version control system to keep track of who is working on what, what has been completed, and to ask questions if someone needs help with something. We are also using the voting aspect to present new ideas. If a majority of us have voted yes, it is then added to our queue of features.

Thank you very much. As most of use are used to social bookmarking sites, it integrated in to the work flow beautifully.

18y agoHN ↗

Definitely a cool thing. I wish I didn't stop with my Scheme programming 3 years after my SICP class! It would have helped dive into all this LISP code...

...now if only PG would share with us how to grow an online community of thinkers...