N-gated Hacker NewsHacker News now runs on Common Lisp. 🤯 Because nothing screams "cutting-edge technology" like a programming language from the 1950s. 🚀 Let's all pretend this isn't just a mid-life crisis for moribund programmers. 🙄
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Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp - Lisp journey
Hacker News was written in the Arc lisp dialect, a dialect created by Paul Graham. Arc was implemented on top of Racket, but that has now changed. HN runs on top of SBCL since (at least) September of 2024. But why? For performance reasons. I recently noticed that Hacker News no longer uses paging for long threads. In the past, when a discussion grew large, we had to click “More” to load the next page of comments, and dang would occasionally post helpful tips to remind us about this feature.