I'm trying to figure out what software they use, but that 'about' page 
has a link that does not seem useful (it links to a page for a lisp-like 
language, with no mention of any software package in that language or 
any other that can provide a hacker-news-like site).

Don't know if the link is in error, or what. Anyone know what software 
Hacker News and this Library News clone are based on, for real, and 
where to look at the source/documentation?  Trying to google for what 
open source software Hacker News runs on, I'm not having any luck.

On 11/29/2011 1:09 PM, Wilfred Drew wrote:
> http://www.librarycloud.org/about
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brett Bonfield
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 1:03 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Library News (à la ycombinator's hackernews)
>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:02 AM, BRIAN TINGLE<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>> I'm not sure how many of y'all read hackernews (news.ycombinator.com, I'm addicted to it) but I just saw on there that there is a similar style site for Library News that somebody launched.
>>
>> http://news.librarycloud.org/news
> I'm addicted to Hacker News as well, and for a long time I've wanted something similar for librarians. I even worked with my colleagues at In the Library with the Lead Pipe to try to start such a community, using SlinkSet (since acquired by Posterous) as the backend. We had some activity for a while, but never really got it going and ultimately decided close the site rather than fight the spammers.
>
> So... what's it going to take for Library News to make it?
>
> Brett
>