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Ask HN: What tech stack would you pick to rebuild HN today?

4 points by bodash 13 days ago · 6 comments · 1 min read


Hacker News is famously built with Arc[^1] and I know that users don't care about your tech stack[^2]. BUT, I'm really interested to know, if you had to rebuild HN today, what tech stack would you choose? (the answer is very unlikely to be Arc, right?)

This is to consider all the existing features of HN (auth, comments, updates, text-heavy, etc) but also the "hidden" features like content moderation, filtering bots, shadowbaning, high availability, API, and etc.

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28155134 [^2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43125981

bodashOP 13 days ago

Personally, I think Go + HTMX + PostgreSQL + Redis can go a long mile, but I could be missing hindsights

mindcrime 13 days ago

If I had to build it myself? Probably something like:

Spring Boot, HTMX, Postgresql, Valkey, Solr

chistev 13 days ago

I built a HN clone with just Django two years ago.

  • bodashOP 13 days ago

    Got a link?

    • chistev 13 days ago

      Unfortunately it's in a private repo. I built it for a client who wanted to build a HN clone for an E-commerce audience. It never took off.

      Didn't help that that they had me add a pay wall to it.

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