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		shail on May 26, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ASK PG: Look like New User from India are Banned f... I am wondering how will you ban folks coming from a country. IP based? As far as I know HN code is open source. So if that is still true, you should be able to see it in the code.

tptacek on May 26, 2013 | [–]

HN is not open source. An older variant of some of the code used to host the site is public.

logn on May 26, 2013 | | [–]

Some of the spam filters and scoring mechanisms are not open sourced (from what I've heard).

hemantv on May 26, 2013 | [–]

I think its mostly IP based. yeah I can look around in code.

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