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Say you wanted to recreate hackernews as a toy project - what stack would you use nowadays to achieve that most efficiently?

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If at all possible, I'd find something someone else has done and use that. :-)

That's fair enough haha! I guess just looking for a pet project to get started with.

HN is actually a great example.

Look at the old source of it and admire it's simplicity.

https://github.com/wting/hackernews

Yeh, I had actually briefly looked into after writing that comment and found the same - interesting that Paul came up with his own version of LISP to do it in.

If you wanted to remake it in a modern framework though, what stack would you personally opt for? I think Postgres or MySQL for the database is a no-brainer, but what about the quickest approach for the rest (bar of course simply cloning the repo ;) )

The tool i best know is dotnet.

Perhaps controllerless, similar to : https://github.com/ServiceStackApps/RazorRockstars

But, as mentioned. That's because I know that tool, that knowledge is not transferable through a comment :p

Yeh, definitely - I appreciate the input nonetheless!

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