Hacker News API

Post by teach » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:38 PM UTC

angersock wrote: post #42

Someone1234 wrote: post #25

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UNIX time is actually much easier to parse and more accurate. Almost all platforms (even Windows[0]) have a way to convert a UNIX time into a culture specific local time. What you're asking for is a string you have to parse. That's a lot more work and there is a lot more that can go wrong. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/249760/how-to-convert-un...

Um, how about, no? var time = new Date(" ") // in Javascript time = DateTime.iso8601(" ") # in Ruby Aaaand it's human readable! Aaaaand it works before the Unix epoch! EDIT: Changed DateTime.parse to DateTime.iso8601, to be even more retentive. Look, parent claimed that parsing ISO strings is hard (it's not, especially if you're consuming a web api on a modern web language ) and that it was more readable (which is so…

Post by unfunco » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:42 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #25

angersock wrote: post #20

Why 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.

UNIX time is actually much easier to parse and more accurate. Almost all platforms (even Windows[0]) have a way to convert a UNIX time into a culture specific local time. What you're asking for is a string you have to parse. That's a lot more work and there is a lot more that can go wrong. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/249760/how-to-convert-un...

Post by tdicola » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:43 PM UTC

Achshar wrote: post #47

I always thought HN was more of a one man job. I didn't realize there is an entire team working on it (full time?). Honestly there doesn't seem to be much to work on here. It's a simple site that rarely changes (at least on the front end).

Post by davideast » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:46 PM UTC

kogir wrote: post #52

airlocksoftware wrote: post #35

This... is cool, but also kinda sucks for me. I've invested dozens of hours into writing an extremely complicated scraper for my Android version of HN. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof... The newest version (still under development, probably a month or two from release) adds support for displaying polls, linking to subthreads, and full write support (voting, commenting, submitting, etc). I…

Yes. While with HTTP pipelining you can request them all over a single TCP connection using a single SSL session, you will need to make an HTTP request for each item you want. If you're on a supported platform, the Firebase SDKs handle all this efficiently and can even provide real-time change notifications.

Post by sararob » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:48 PM UTC

airlocksoftware wrote: post #35

This... is cool, but also kinda sucks for me. I've invested dozens of hours into writing an extremely complicated scraper for my Android version of HN. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof... The newest version (still under development, probably a month or two from release) adds support for displaying polls, linking to subthreads, and full write support (voting, commenting, submitting, etc). I…