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Show HN: Pointless but mostly-exact clone of Hacker News

A developer created a near-exact clone of Hacker News, but instead of using AI-generated comments, it mirrors the comments from the original site. The clone, called sharc, took around four months to develop and uses Common Lisp for high-performance. The developer, who wishes to remain anonymous, admits that the project was pointless but served as a technical exercise to test their abilities. The clone is missing only two features, /ask and /show, and can be viewed at news.ycombinator.lol.

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