alt Hacker NewsOh no way, a fellow HN cloning nerd! Hi!
You’re absolutely right. It’s taken almost daily work from April till now, but I finally have almost everything. Navigation links were particularly tricky. I’d love to see yours too.
Right now it’s running locally on my laptop, but I plan to deploy it to https://news.ycombinator.lol soon. I was gonna make AI generated comments but the API costs are pretty high.
Source is fully available: https://github.com/shawwn/sharc
I started with arc 3.2, which is ancient, and implemented every missing feature one by one until I’ve mostly run out. https://github.com/shawwn/sharc/tree/main/docs/agents/handof... shows a chronological journal of the whole process.
Is yours up somewhere? Would love to compare notes.
EDIT: Here's a side by side screenshot:
HN Simulator: https://i.imgur.com/iZk5ypK.png
HN: https://i.imgur.com/ZocuK0L.png
It's fun to tab back and forth and look at the diffs.
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Creating a clone is basically violating all copyrights of every commenter and contributor here on Hacker News. We could all get together and inundate you with DMCA takedown for our Intellectual Property. We still retain copyright and all rights to our User Content, while we've granted YC a non-exclusive license to it. Scraping and cloning is also a violation of HN's TOS.
https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
It's not your content, and you're cheating us all!
I used to contribute to Anarki but the lack of any reasonable error reporting made it insufferable, and I don't want to learn enough about compiler design and Racket to get a stack trace working. Good to see people are still working on Arc forks.
hackernews clone but all the comments are AI would be kinda funny.