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A variation of it is open source. The anti-spam features are guarded secrets.

They take a pretty conservative approach to adding features.

By variation, do you mean a clone. If so, that's not what I mean, I mean that the site is open source, community is able to make pull requests, and it's a community driven resource, that driven by content, code and community, not an singular interface.

By variation I mean HN is based on http://arclanguage.org/install ... I don't know how much the code bases have diverged.

They do have an API: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api

Yes, ARC is a great example of how a PG project should be open sourced and run by the community.

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API is read-only; API should be "full service" and the first interface to HN, not a supplement.

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Yeah, whole ARC (aka PG) thing is an issue too; FYI, those install direction are dated, here's the info: http://arclanguage.org/user?id=akkartik

PG doesn't even appear to be actively involved in ARC anymore: http://arclanguage.org/user?id=pg

Find it hard to believe if YC funded a startup like HN that they wouldn't require an explanation of why ARC made sense as the language of choice.

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