Ask HN: Is there an open-source Hacker News?

[laurenarroyo83]

Maybe in Java or PHP? I've seen datatau.com which is cool -- I haven't been able to find an open source HN. Anyone have any leads?

[mtmail]

Check out https://github.com/jcs/lobsters (Ruby on Rails).

For the source of news.ycombinator.com see this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14371189

[laurenarroyo83 → mtmail]

Wow thanks!

[krapp]

It's based on http://arclanguage.org/ although I think a newer fork is anarki: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki.

As mentioned, there is also lobste.rs, in RoR. I think most HN clones posted here use one or the other.

If someone were writing a Hacker News clone in PHP, or God forbid, Hack, they would probably be embarrassed to post it here...