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[nickwoodhams]

Why would you want open source for this? Do you want to spend the time to deploy your own instance just to have the exact same result?

[sp332 → nickwoodhams]

To learn from it; so that more than one person can work on improving it; just in case I don't trust the submitter to serve code to my visitors.

[nickwoodhams → sp332]

Yeah, that makes sense. What would give you the confidence necessary to have someone else/Nathan Cahill host the server?

[muellerwolfram → nickwoodhams]

yes i would. to implement the whole thing, instead of only this little jquery snippet shouldn't take much longer. but then i'm not dependent on someone elses server being up/fast.

[gcmartinelli → muellerwolfram]

If everyone could implement their own scrapper they would be able to follow robots.txt guidelines/limits, but HN servers might take a big blow it it gets popular.

[nickwoodhams → muellerwolfram]

That makes sense. Maybe it will go open source in the future. It doesn't look like Nathan has a revenue model for this so he may be open to that.

[muellerwolfram → muellerwolfram]

to counter myself... i've recently seen a couple of blogs move to github pages, where something like this would be quite handy

[progrock → nickwoodhams]

You'd hope it was optimally done client side, and then hosting would be moot.