An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one?
jmatt: There were a number of sites that were launched shortly after arc came out based on the news.arc code. The arc language and code are under the Artistic License 2.0 [1]. (I admit that I thought they were public domain) See arclanguage.org for more on news.arc and arc the language.Here are the news.arc sites that I remember:[newmogul.com] - by nickb was HN for business. I always assumed it was news.arc. Maybe not. Still worth reading up on. There were a number of HNers that used it regularly and were looking for another similar site when it went down.[pageonetimes.com] - it was HN applied to sports.[ballerinc.com] - I don't remember what that site specialized in.All of these were based on the news.arc code. I don't think any of these are still around. But the news.arc code has continued to improve and become more stable so it may be viable option. So if you wanted to set up something for biology or medicine you could use the HN code and just customize it as you see fit. (Oh and put it behind apache, nginx, etc please, I can help just email me or ask over at arclanguage.org)Good luck. I agree that if you can build the community and figure out how to get rid of bad data - it's a great idea.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
[2] http://arclanguage.org/item?id=7564EDIT: Formatting ~ Sometimes I wish HN had markdown or textile...