Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online?

#Programming Language #Programming #Software Development 16 social mentions

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Syncthing

<i>"ad-hoc filesystem based solution"</i> is the closest of your definitions, I think. Last time I saw/heard, HN was built in Arc, a Lisp dialect, and use(s/d) a variant of this (mirrored) code: https://github.com/wting/hackernews Check out around this area of the code to see how simple it is. All just plain files. A database, of sorts, but not in the way you might be expecting: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L166 There is a modern maintained variant at https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/master/apps/news as well. File syncing between machines is pretty much an easily solved problem. I don't know how they do it, but it could be something like https://syncthing.net/ or even some scripting with `rsync`. Heck, a cronned `tar | gzip | scp` might even be enough for an app whose data isn't exactly mission critical.

#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #File Sharing And Backup 828 social mentions

I wouldn’t say it’s not user friendly but I understand where you are coming from. I also missed some more modern features/looks and decided to build my own open source client [0]. Feel free to give it a go to see if it’s more your taste! 0. https://modernorange.io.

#Hacker News UI #News #Hacker News 6 social mentions