I like the simplicity of this types of platforms (including the algorithm for hype) and I'd like to install one internally inside my organization. Have you ever used an open source platform of this kind that was clean and simple?
There's antirez' "lamernews", a rather straight-forward Ruby/Redis application and its clone "lusernews" in Python.<p><a href="https://github.com/antirez/lamernews" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/antirez/lamernews</a><p><a href="https://github.com/dengzhp/lusernews" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dengzhp/lusernews</a>
reddit has open sourced their code at <a href="https://github.com/reddit/reddit(https://github.com/reddit/reddit)" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/reddit/reddit(https://github.com/reddit/r...</a>
HN is also an open-source demo of the Arc language <a href="https://github.com/wting/hackernews" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/wting/hackernews</a>