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Another frequent contributor, edw519, has published an ebook of his or her comments: http://hn.my/edw519
his or her comments The book is copyrighted by Ed Weissman, so although it's possible "Ed" is short for "Edna," the higher probability can be assigned to "his" in this case.
If someone would be interested in contributing to an OSS project to build an iOS HN client, please have a look at https://github.com/bonzoq/hniosreader .
Or should I be picking them up from "/v0/topstories"?
If 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.
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…
Yeah, I like it a lot, but I've put tons of time into my scraper for Reader YC ( https://github.com/krruzic/Reader-YC ). I support everything but polls currently. This api is nice but my scraper actually supports more... No option to get Show HN, Ask HN or New afaik. Still glad this is out!
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> It's not a slight advantage if you've ever had to parse through logfiles by hand or debug APIs with curl--it's a great deal more than that. Funny you should say that, UNIX time works great for log files. Since now even a dumb tool can search for values in the range, 1388491199-1420027199 to see all 2013-2014 lines. Your way requires specific support for the date format, dealing with "2014" false positives, or searc…
ISO-8601 is designed to be sortable lexicographically, so the same benefit stays there when using dumb tools. Again, no benefit to not using it, other than you are scared of strings. If you are handling JSON from a web API, you are already dealing in strings .
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Interesting - you rate limited your requests, and I multithreaded mine :p (with x10 I downloaded your comments in From https://www.firebase.com/pricing.html it looks like the top plan supports 10k concurrent connections, so I suspect the impact is negligable. Thanks for being an outrageously good resource and beacon of inspiration! You've unknowingly been one of the most influential role models in my career/life: I j…
Congratulations on the success. Nothing in business makes me as happy as folks telling me that what I wrote/did/etc helped them out. Though I don't know if I'd describe my lifestyle as "never having to actually work another day in my life." It feels less like work some days and more like work others. For example, it is 1:30 AM and while I could be snug in my bed I am instead clearing out the AR support inbox. (Poor p…
It's certainly difficult at times, but when you can set your own hours, do wherever you want on whatever you want, and take as much time off as you want for any reason, it's difficult to justify using the W word.
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Yeah, I like it a lot, but I've put tons of time into my scraper for Reader YC ( https://github.com/krruzic/Reader-YC ). I support everything but polls currently. This api is nice but my scraper actually supports more... No option to get Show HN, Ask HN or New afaik. Still glad this is out!
Exactly. Is this really the case, or it just isn't documented? I've send an email to api@ycombinator.com about that and hopefuly, I will be able to shed some light on this, later. I will write as soon as I get a response. (assuming someone responds)
Yep, there are no API methods specifically for getting the Show, Ask, New, Comments etc. lists, yet.
They will probably add such, though.