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Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#31

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There is no proper API, IIRC. All those clients scrape the website.

There is (or at least was) an API, AFAIK read-only though. I still don't see why one couldn't combine the API and scrapping to get a full read/write interface going.

Wouldn't that require you to give a random site your login to post on your behalf?

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no proper API, IIRC. All those clients scrape the website.

There is (or at least was) an API, AFAIK read-only though. I still don't see why one couldn't combine the API and scrapping to get a full read/write interface going.

Or better: why can't HN developers please work on API? Probably brcause building one takes too much effort.... and they don't see reasons to develop one.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is (or at least was) an API, AFAIK read-only though. I still don't see why one couldn't combine the API and scrapping to get a full read/write interface going.

Wouldn't that require you to give a random site your login to post on your behalf?

It would. Whether you should is another thing entirely. I'm asking why noone seems to even offer the option?

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#35
I'd like to see some kind of filtering for HN based upon some preferences or, better yet, an ML style system like with Netflix that learns the kinds of stories you're interested in.

I skimmed through the descriptions of the "21 better ways", but didn't see anything that would help you to find the HN articles that you're interested in.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#37
post #11

I wish there were a way to display news from a custom time interval, as opposed to always getting news from a fixed interval of time (I think there are three different settings as of now). If I haven’t visited HN for, say, 6 days, I find it’d be really helpful to be able to display all news from this time period, based on number of upvotes in descending order. In other words: I’d appreciate complete control over the…

Try http://searchhn.com/ This comes close to your specs.

Here is another one with custom range settings:

https://hn.algolia.com

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#40

1 vote for HackerWeb for your phone. Wish the full HN had collapsible threads - a feature on Reddit I find very useful for traversing long threads without getting "sucked" into a "reply black hole"

They seem to have added this feature to the main site within the last couple months. It works for me on my iPad anyway, maybe give it another try.
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