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Hacker News API
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#12The GitHub repo is inaccessible because it is private.
Oops. Thanks for letting me know!
The issue tracker on https://github.com/HackerNews/API appears to be disabled, though the summary says "Documentation, Samples, and Issue Tracking for the Official HN API."
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#13Yay! I've been wanting something like this to come out. I've been playing around with some new tech stacks and built a css replacer of hacker news, but always wanted an actual api to make it easier.
There's a bunch of css pages that come out for hacker news, but I couldn't find anything that aggregates them. This will be alot easier to extend and customize the site.
I'm not seeing any api's for the jobs or show sections though? Hopefully this might come in the future?
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#14I really appreciate giving a 3 week heads up before moving to a new frontend structure. It's a nice gesture, but I have this horrible feeling that there's only about a 10% chance that my Hacker News app gets updated in time.
I know you can't not iterate because people are scraping, but it does stink. At least this will make everything more future-proof going forward.
However, it may be nice to give a bit more heads up than 3 weeks. I know a lot of apps can take ~2 weeks to get through the review process for iOS.
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#15Yay! I've been wanting something like this to come out. I've been playing around with some new tech stacks and built a css replacer of hacker news, but always wanted an actual api to make it easier. http://jmaat.me/hn There's a bunch of css pages that come out for hacker news, but I couldn't find anything that aggregates them. This will be alot easier to extend and customize the site. I'm not seeing any api's for the…
Why do you need an API to replace only CSS? You can do that with an extension like Stylish/Greasemonkey.
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#16Very cool, I'm glad I prepped my android app for this :D
One question: why the choice of returning everything as an ID, on mobile, this will require a lot of very small network requests.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oops. Thanks for letting me know!
The issue tracker on https://github.com/HackerNews/API appears to be disabled, though the summary says "Documentation, Samples, and Issue Tracking for the Official HN API."
We decided email would be better until we got a feel for things. Updated.
Examples are coming soon, but we didn't want to make people wait.
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#18Yay! I've been wanting something like this to come out. I've been playing around with some new tech stacks and built a css replacer of hacker news, but always wanted an actual api to make it easier. http://jmaat.me/hn There's a bunch of css pages that come out for hacker news, but I couldn't find anything that aggregates them. This will be alot easier to extend and customize the site. I'm not seeing any api's for the…
Why do you need an API to replace only CSS? You can do that with an extension like Stylish/Greasemonkey.
Well personally, I didn't want to install any browser add-ons. I also had some other ideas, like aggregating reddit and hackernews posts, but would need to scrape for that (unless there's an external api I'm missing).
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#19Oh this will be cool, and I really look forward to being able to read HN on a phone or tablet in the future without all the zooming and scrolling!
It will be interesting to see if it has an impact on site traffic, how much of that traffic is scrapers today?
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#20Why do you have all the times in Unix time instead of ISO-8601 UTC?
EDIT: Also, the "about" value in the users api appears to be truncated. Compare...
https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/angersock#
...with...
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=angersock
EDIT2: Note that the JSON is correct, but the preview in the firebase API seems to be broken.
EDIT3: No issue tracker on the Github? Laaaame.