On: Analyzing HN moderation and censorship

[tptacek]

I think I'm just saying that I'm not sure you can conclude they don't have a real database backend now from the news.arc code.

[sillysaurus3 → tptacek]

Ah, yeah. (It's odd that Arc went closed-source but kept improving. It's maybe one of the most important custom languages in the industry, relative to HN's impact on the world.)

[krapp → sillysaurus3]

Did Arc go closed-source or does Hacker News run a closed-source fork?

As far as I can tell, the arc forums site is still up and running, and a lot of people seem to be focused on Anarki[0].

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

[tptacek → krapp]

Hacker News has been on a closed-source "fork" (it's really the upstream) since the day news.arc was published.