What does HackerNews think of lamernews?

Lamer News -- an HN style social news site written in Ruby/Sinatra/Redis/JQuery

Language: Ruby

Ask HN: Is there an open-source HN forum clone? | Apr 2023
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

Show HN: Berlin Hacker News | Sep 2014
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 )
Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content | Mar 2013
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You might like lamernews[1], made by antirez, which uses redis.

[1]: https://github.com/antirez/lamernews
Echo JS - JavaScript News | Mar 2013
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There is a 'source code' link at the bottom that leads to https://github.com/antirez/lamernews, which looks mostly the same with a different stylesheet, so I think they did save that effort ;)

And FWIW, Telescope may preserve the functionality of HN, but I like the design a lot less (though the Echo design could use some work).
Ask PG: Why is Hacker News not Open Source? | Sep 2012
Unrelated, but there are good open source clones like https://github.com/antirez/lamernews
Ask HN: Hacker news clone script in Ruby? | May 2012
Check the source code of lamernews:

https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

You may find some inspiration there ...

Ask HN: self-hosted hacker news clone? | Feb 2012
Have a look at https://github.com/antirez/lamernews.

Live site: http://lamernews.com/

Is there a list of Hacker News clones? | Jan 2012
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.

Ask HN: Stack Exchange Clone Needed | Oct 2011
There's always Lamer News, "an HN style social news site written in Ruby/Sinatra/Redis/JQuery"

https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

Lamer News | Oct 2011
Code: https://github.com/antirez/lamernews
On cryptography and dogmas | Oct 2011
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/

Ask HN: Is there any opensource php(not arc) HN clone? | Oct 2011
https://github.com/antirez/lamernews