Whoa. This is super slick! Are you using any libraries for animations/transitions? If yes, Can you please share that info as well? Thanks.

you can check out usesthis.com

Looks neat! What is this written on? Are you making the source available?

Search for lamernews for the same thing but opensource and redis based (written by antirez)

Thanks for your reply. But Lamernews does not seem to have search. I also found lobste.rs to be good. It is also based on rails and seems like a good choice if someone wants to set up a hackernews style board. Guess I'll try coding up something similar in Django for this month..or does something already exist?

Rails. No.