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Care to explain why I'm being downvoted? EDIT: If you're going to downvote, please leave an explanation to teach me what I'm missing. I'd sincerely appreciate that. Thank you.

Sorely needed. I can imagine pretty amazing mashups that revolved around your local community if Craigslist had an API. I'd imagine there would be a much bigger developer community…

Try Photos8 for public domain photos

"scrape != API" No kidding. He's looking to get "comments for a given thread, score of posts and comments, and user information", which you can use an HTML parser (like Hpricot if …

You'll probably need quite a bit of money backing your startup if you're going to be handling enterprise data to let them know you'll be around years from now. Enterprises need tha…

I'm sure Google will get there eventually, as they're doing with all industries that traditionally make information inaccessible. Google just enhanced Google Scholar to be a major …

Can't you do that already with a simple scrape?

"Why was a Japanese bank willing to risk that much on a bank that made bad choices?" Imagine buying an Xbox for $30. (It was a bargain.)

The check wasn't meant to be deposited through traditional means. Checks like that give creditors some tangible evidence that the company will not collapse because of the imminent …

I can't imagine what you would need other than HN's RSS feed. What did you have in mind that could extend Hacker News?