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9 points·hellbreaker··2 comments

I saw this post a few weeks ago someone wanted to have something similar to hacker news but for science related topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14734664

I took it upon myself to see how long it would take for me to build the hacker news website.

The stack: - Scala/ Akka Http -- ScalaJS / Autowire / Bookpickle -- Kalium / Salting / Scrypt -- Bootstrap - Google GCE -- Kubernetes / Docker -- Load balancer -- Ingress controller/ nginx -- Let's encrypt SSL

Image size: - OpenJDK ~ 100mb - Kalium ~ 150mb - App ~ 50mb

In all, it took 6 days to complete. The application logic only took 2 days; the longest part was cascading the comments correctly with minimal passes. 2 days was setting up different environments like sbt revolver for html development, docker-compose sbt for integration testing, docker (whisk) unit testing. And 2 days was playing with GCE settings like setting up nameservers, handling naked domain, container-registry, kubernetes/ helm configs.

The features are bare minimum. You can submit posts preprend with "review:" if you want to others to review your manuscript, and "publish:" for showing new papers that have been published. For now post are listed by most recent and comments are ranked by points.

Disclaimer: links are taken from hacker news.

This is really really cool man. I'm actually working on something similar for curating learning guides and how to resources (it'll replace the splashpage at www.learnsearch.xyz by the end of the day :) )

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