how hard is it to maintain your own clone of HN ?
iamelgringo: If you're interested, I'd be willing to give you a clone of the http://Newsley.com codebase.  It's a bit bare bones right now, and since I'm the sole developer, I haven't worked on the documentation much.   But, it's Python/Django, which might be a little more familiar to you if you're a Ruby/Rails guy.  I've thought about open sourcing the code, but some parts are a little ugly right now, so I haven't done it.  But if you're interested,  ping me and we can talk.Another thought is Slinkset:  http://slinkset.com/  It looks like they still have some active sites, and it looks like they've added features since I last looked a few months back.  Anyone know if they're still up?