Hacker News, but for Hack Club. A near-pixel clone of news.ycombinator.com built with SvelteKit + Supabase. Only the logo and "Hack Feed" header differ.

Features:

• Front page (HN gravity ranking) + new, ask, show, jobs feeds
• Username + password auth (no email), identical to HN's /login / /submit
• Submit link or text posts
• Up/down voting on posts (works without JavaScript)
• Per-user karma, user profiles

At supabase.com, create a project. Then SQL Editor → New query, paste the contents of supabase/schema.sql, and run it. This creates the tables, row-level-security policies, and the score/karma triggers..

No auth settings need changing — accounts are created and auto-confirmed server-side with the service-role key, so the default email provider is fine and users never deal with email..

cp .env.example .env

Fill in from Project Settings → API:

• PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL — Project URL
• PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY — anon public key
• SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY — service_role secret key (server-only, used to register users)

npm install
npm run devv

Open http://localhost:5173, click login, create an account, and submit a post.

Supabase Auth requires an email, but HN uses bare username/password. Each username maps to a stable synthetic email (([email protected]) that users never see. Signup uses the service-role client ((src/lib/server/admin.js) to create + auto-confirm the account and insert a profiles row; login uses the normal anon client so the session lives in cookies ((@supabase/ssr).

src/
  hooks.server.js            per-request Supabase client + session helper
  app.css                    HN-faithful styles
  lib/
    util.js                  time-ago, ranking, comment-tree
    components/              Vote, PostList, Feed, Comment
    server/
      admin.js               service-role client (lazy)
      auth.js                username -> email, validation
      feed.js                paginated post-list loader
  routes/
    +layout.svelte           orange top bar + footer
    +page                    front page (ranked)
    newest|ask|show|jobs     filtered feeds
    item                     story permalink (link + text body)
    submit                   new post (redirects to /login when logged out)
    login                    login + create-account (HN style)
    logout                   sign out
    user                     profile
    vote/+server.js          POST upvote/downvote toggle
supabase/schema.sql          database schema, RLS, triggers
rs
hema, RLS, triggers