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My Hacker News firehose

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Re: My Hacker News firehose

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I think it's interesting that Dave Winer decided to do this as a blog post instead of a HN discussion. Instead of having a conversation with the HN community he decided to have a conversation with his readers.

That's not what I "decided" at all. I do my writing on my blog. That's the way I work. Happy to participate in a discussion here.

That's still a decision.

Re: My Hacker News firehose

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I took down the site after YC blocked my IP address. I believe it was blocked as a result of increased usage from the explosion in traffic, resulting in some really heavy usage of the API. My guess is that YC's software did this automatically to prevent abuse. In addition, many folks weren't happy with me distributing the HN database. So there really wasn't a reason to keep it up. I'm going to rework the API such tha…

That's a real shame, I was thinking of building something on it too. I wish there was a way to get HN pages in simple JSON/XML.

That's exactly what my API did. JSON, JSONP, and XML for pages, comments, profiles.

Re: My Hacker News firehose

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>Apparently that's because Hacker News has blocked his API. Does anyone know if this is actually the case? http://api.ihackernews.com gives me a 404, but I'm posting this from ihackernews's browser interface, which obviously is getting updates.

I took down the site after YC blocked my IP address. I believe it was blocked as a result of increased usage from the explosion in traffic, resulting in some really heavy usage of the API. My guess is that YC's software did this automatically to prevent abuse. In addition, many folks weren't happy with me distributing the HN database. So there really wasn't a reason to keep it up. I'm going to rework the API such tha…

Thank you for the confirmation. Will the ihackernews browser interface remain active?

I hope so, because I love it and use it every day.

Whether or not it will, thank you so much for creating it, as well as the API!

Re: My Hacker News firehose

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post #3

I think it's interesting that Dave Winer decided to do this as a blog post instead of a HN discussion. Instead of having a conversation with the HN community he decided to have a conversation with his readers.

Huh? He's also the one who posted this to HN. It seems to me like he wanted to have conversations with both the HN community and his readers.

Re: My Hacker News firehose

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I took down the site after YC blocked my IP address. I believe it was blocked as a result of increased usage from the explosion in traffic, resulting in some really heavy usage of the API. My guess is that YC's software did this automatically to prevent abuse. In addition, many folks weren't happy with me distributing the HN database. So there really wasn't a reason to keep it up. I'm going to rework the API such tha…

Thank you for the confirmation. Will the ihackernews browser interface remain active? I hope so, because I love it and use it every day. Whether or not it will, thank you so much for creating it, as well as the API!

That was the point of my piece. Ronnie has done some great work, and deserves all our gratitude.

Re: My Hacker News firehose

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I took down the site after YC blocked my IP address. I believe it was blocked as a result of increased usage from the explosion in traffic, resulting in some really heavy usage of the API. My guess is that YC's software did this automatically to prevent abuse. In addition, many folks weren't happy with me distributing the HN database. So there really wasn't a reason to keep it up. I'm going to rework the API such tha…

Thank you for the confirmation. Will the ihackernews browser interface remain active? I hope so, because I love it and use it every day. Whether or not it will, thank you so much for creating it, as well as the API!

Thanks, I appreciate it. Yes, it will remain up unless I'm told by PG to take it down :)

Re: My Hacker News firehose

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post #3

I think it's interesting that Dave Winer decided to do this as a blog post instead of a HN discussion. Instead of having a conversation with the HN community he decided to have a conversation with his readers.

That's not what I "decided" at all. I do my writing on my blog. That's the way I work. Happy to participate in a discussion here.

I believe Dave Winer has always advocated writing on your own space and linking into the conversation. I feel this is very insightful advice and pro-web and really "getting it". I didn't get a chance yet to see what experiment Dave was building, his firehose, because scripting.com is down. But I'd give Dave the benefit of the doubt...

Re: My Hacker News firehose

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post #3

I think it's interesting that Dave Winer decided to do this as a blog post instead of a HN discussion. Instead of having a conversation with the HN community he decided to have a conversation with his readers.

It would be stranger if he didn't post it on his blog. After all his blog has been around for almost 10 years longer than hacker news, was around before they were called blogs. Dave was also the guy that invented RSS.
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