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Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
Hacker News was written in the Arc lisp dialect, a dialect created by Paul Graham. Arc was implemented on top of Racket, but that has now changed. HN runs on top of SBCL since (at least) September of 2024.But why? For performance reasons. I recently noticed that Hacker News no longer uses paging for long threads. In…
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On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2025 | Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp by Tomte | 663 | 435 |
