Hacker News API

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 9:04 PM UTC

dstaley wrote: post #145

Decided to recreate the Hacker News homepage using Ember and the new API. I was really pleased with how easy it was! https://realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com/

Post by SiVal » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 9:06 PM UTC

rkrzr wrote: post #158

dstaley wrote: post #145

Decided to recreate the Hacker News homepage using Ember and the new API. I was really pleased with how easy it was! https://realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com/

Very cool, but why not update the design a bit, while you're at it?

Post by bch » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 9:08 PM UTC

Post by minimaxir » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 9:13 PM UTC

gwern wrote: post #163

minimaxir wrote: post #6

How does this differ from the Algolia HN API in terms of data access? ( https://hn.algolia.com/api ) I was able to download all HN data recently with ease using that endpoint. Authentication? EDIT: After looking at the documentation there are two new aspects of the Firebase API not in the Algolia API: 1) Ability to see deleted/dead stories. 2) Endpoint for user data. Question to kogir/dang: Has the "delay" field (Del…

I'm also curious whether it removes some of the limitations of the Algolia version; I wanted to download my content for some statistical analysis (notes at http://www.gwern.net/HN ) but I discovered that it seems there's some hard limits to how much of my data I can reach: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/36

Post by bch » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 9:18 PM UTC

tlb wrote: post #176

bch wrote: post #175

Does this encoding: ' have a name ? I can't actually find anything useful on the 'net.

It's part of HTML. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML