> The Hacker News website runs on Lisp.

You mean the message board? The website that has a grand total of 2 functions: post and comment?

> And yet, for what it is, this site is amazing!

It's 2 colors and text. That's it.

> ! I don't see them rushing to migrate to a python backend and a react-based frontend, no matter how many jobs there are for those.

It's A MESSAGE BOARD. A. MESSAGE. BOARD.