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IIRC, HN is a fork of early reddit, correct?

I am curious how different the features and design were around the time of the fork.



I thought Reddit was python and HN is custom written in arc?


> Over at reddit.com, we rewrote the site from Lisp to Python in the past week.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit (2005)

That's a fun read. Hats off for Aaron.


Never met the guy but I miss him


Hey, the website in your bio is indeed cool.

Usually not a fan of abnormal scrolling, but that's a good time.




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