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gus_massa on June 6, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and ...

HN is written in Arc that is written in Racket.

I think HN use a slightly modified version of Racket with a few tweaks to be more friendly with the high amount of memory used in HN.

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