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You can download the old (ancient) version that was included with arc 3.1 in http://arclanguage.org/install

It doesn't have many of the antispam and administration features that are part of the secret sauce or were added later.

Also, some details may have changed, for example the order of the post may be something like points/time^1.8 in the old version, but it may be something like points/time^1.9 in the current version. There are a few black box analysis out there that try to guess the current numbers. (I just approximate it by points/time^2 and don't worry too much.)

There is a forum about the language, but it has a low number of users. Anyway they made some unofficial extension to the language and to the news package.

You can find some discussion of how HN works here [0]. It appears they use Arc [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14371189 [1] http://arclanguage.org/install

It was custom and written in LISP/ARC by Paul Graham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) You can of course use any programming language or framework you like.

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