there is a "real' hacker news clone called Cryptoanalys.is [1] that posts news items related to cryptocurrencies.<p>what does that tell me -- you didn't do your homework before setting up a rival list.<p>instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, you should be contributing to a list aka community resource that has been in existence for the past year or so.<p>and most of us that are subbed to that list, don't have to reveal our identity or tip our hand to our friends and colleagues as to what we're interested in, in order join.<p>what's next? registering with the feds.<p>My apologies, i forgot to mention coinspotting, another out of the box, hnc. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https://cryptanalys.is/" rel="nofollow">https://cryptanalys.is/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://coinspotting.com/news" rel="nofollow">http://coinspotting.com/news</a>
Over the years it seems there have been a fair few 'Hacker News for X' (see <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/hacker%20news%20for" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/hacker%20ne...</a>). Presumably each time people implement the whole site from scratch (users, commenting, ranking, etc). Have there ever been any open-source attempts at creating a generic Hacker News style site that people could self host for specific topics? The only thing that I can think of is self-hosting your own copy of reddit.
Probably worth pointing out that the website a forked version of Lobsters: <a href="https://lobste.rs/" rel="nofollow">https://lobste.rs/</a>
I know this has been tried a couple of times before (sorry I can't remember the URL) but those sites died just 1 or 2 days after they disappeared from the HN frontpage.
I tried to launch something similar a couple of months ago: <a href="http://www.thecurrency.io/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thecurrency.io/</a>