What does HackerNews think of lamernews?

FWIW some years ago Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) wrote Lamernews [0][1] with the goal to create such a clone. AFAIK Lamernews, as a site, is long gone, but the code -Ruby, Sinatra, Redis- is still there.

There have also been some forks. EchoJS [2] made a few modifications through the years and is running still today. Mostly about moderation and some related tasks like blacklisting and others. Can't say much about pros/cons but at least it's still used and somewhat maintained.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146051

[1] https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

[2] https://github.com/echojs/echojs

it would be great to have people share more on the (open-source) software driving forums and news-sites. For example, I learned quite a lot about Ruby and Redis from looking at the source of Lamernews ( https://github.com/antirez/lamernews ) and I also learned using Promises and Redit with Node while experimenting with ( https://github.com/mulderp/echojs )

There's antirez' "lamernews", a rather straight-forward Ruby/Redis application and its clone "lusernews" in Python.

https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

https://github.com/dengzhp/lusernews

Unrelated, but there are good open source clones like https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

Check the source code of lamernews:

https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

You may find some inspiration there ...

Have a look at https://github.com/antirez/lamernews.

Live site: http://lamernews.com/

in terms of tools that may power some of the clones out there, in looking around i see this one:

https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

which powers a couple of sites. this one's demo site seems down:

https://github.com/jaekwon/YCatalyst

not entirely sure what sites it powers. these may help you find some of the more community-specific clones out there.

You might try lamernews[1], created by Redis author antirez.

> Lamer news is an implementation of a Reddit / Hacker News style news web site written using Ruby, Sinatra, Redis and jQuery.

> The goal is to have a system that is very simple to understand and modify and that is able to handle a very high load using a small virtual server, ensuring at the same time a very low latency user experience.

[1]http://lamernews.com/ and https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

There's always Lamer News, "an HN style social news site written in Ruby/Sinatra/Redis/JQuery"

https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

Code: https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

When I saw SHA1(password|salt) in the readme of https://github.com/antirez/lamernews I knew a flame was coming, and that "use bcrypt" and "cryptography is hard" will popup, but not really exactly why?

Thanks for this post antirez, because after diving a little, now I know better the reason, the risks, that tarsnap creator uses scrypt (http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html), that really "cryptography is hard", he also makes bugs (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-18-tarsnap-critical-...)

And this funny little gem: http://xkcd.com/538/