> the reason we released an API is so that we can start modernizing the markup on Hacker News
This is bigger news. No more tables!
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
There's a cheat to work around that limit: use the created_at_i parameter. Example: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-download-all-storie...
I don't know Python, so I'm not sure what your source code is doing. At a guess, you've hacked together some sort of repeated queries thing with a time-window?
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#224If you guys are already using Mashape, it has been released as a community API at https://www.mashape.com/community/hacker-news
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#225This... 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…
Nice app! Is login broken though?
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#226How 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…
> "Delay" field post by pg on 2008-06-29
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231024
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#227Please please please no javascript in the next HN iteration.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be interesting to redo the top karma list by comment karma only. It would also be interesting to look at liberal vs conservative political sentiment over time. I feel like the site has gotten more liberal over the years, especially after all the Chelsea Manning stuff, but not sure if that is accurate.
I actually have the list of top users by comment karma: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ws2VK-UB7IQpVUZgPZ9M... I also included the number of thread wins (user made comment with highest number of points in a given submission thread) to see if there was any unusual relationship. There wasn't: correlation is 0.89. I ended up not including it in the article because it's long enough as-is. :P
Thanks! I would have thought that I'd have been higher ranked when looking at only comments, although actually my rank is almost the same. Interesting to see that many of the other top users are using the site in more or less the same way.
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#229Glad to see that HN will still be written in a lisp after these major upgrades.
I regard that as part of the site's DNA. It permeates so many things about its design, both internal and external.
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#230If up/down vote data were included in the API, much needed experimentation on collaborative filtering would be made possible! This is Hacker News after all. Right now one team, Ycombinator, is trying to fix important issues in the ranking and moderation of posts and comments. Many of us are frustrated by the increasing domination of popularity (and hatred) over quality and relevance. A lot of good submissions and com…
There are many legitimate views on this, but FWIW mine differs from yours. I believe that anonymity actually is important for a site like Hacker News, and the odds of us ever publishing the vote data—even pseudo-anonymized—are small. Sorry to disappoint.