It's actually 501. (I spent a few days at exactly 500 wondering why I couldn't d...

dang · on April 17, 2014

  (> (karma user) downvote-threshold*)

Right you are.

danford · on April 18, 2014

Is HN open source?

alecdbrooks · on April 18, 2014

It was open-sourced at least two years ago[0]. I believe it hasn't been since to prevent gaming of the system, but I don't remember where I heard that.

[0] Based on this handy Github repository: https://github.com/wting/hackernews Original: http://arclanguage.org/install

benaiah · on April 18, 2014

No, but dang's a mod, so he has access to the source code.