I love HN and would like to run a version internally in my company. Is there a good open source verion of HN that is good? I don't want an elaborate "CMS"
<a href="http://arclanguage.org/install" rel="nofollow">http://arclanguage.org/install</a><p>Within that .tar file you will find news.arc (which is what HN is), and a how-to-run-news file as well.
You might try lamernews[1], created by Redis author antirez.<p>> Lamer news is an implementation of a Reddit / Hacker News style news web site written using Ruby, Sinatra, Redis and jQuery.<p>> The goal is to have a system that is very simple to understand and modify and that is able to handle a very high load using a small virtual server, ensuring at the same time a very low latency user experience.<p>[1]<a href="http://lamernews.com/" rel="nofollow">http://lamernews.com/</a> and <a href="https://github.com/antirez/lamernews" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/antirez/lamernews</a>