A concurrent REST api, written in scheme. That support a parallel/multicore environment. Which in turn compiles to C.
Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?
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#122Local movie times. It's stupid this isn't available from someone. The only thing it's going to do is increase the number of people going to see a movie. Maybe there's one now but 3 years ago there wasn't one and I had to build a scraper for Yahoo movies to build the product I wanted.
There's one for the iPhone http://code.google.com/p/metasyntactic/wiki/NowPlaying (From a Microsoft C# compiler/parser guy, no less).
Meta's an ex-Microsoftie -- he's currently at Google.
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#123a real-world grep. this might be solved in my lifetime, since books, notes, etc are all moving to digital. sometimes i just wish i could grep for x and it would find x in all my books, notebooks, etc.
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#125Pandora - Music Genome Project. I've been working on a media player, AuraMP, for a number of years and I've really wanted to plug into sites like Pandora.
what about http://www.last.fm/api?
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#126Hacker News API?
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, HTML scraping ESPN.com is not very hard. I did it for college basketball once in a strange sort of database that attempted to predict March Madness brackets. It worked really well for teams that had encountered each other during the season... except only 2 or 3 pairs of teams had ever played each other during the regular season. Works much better on NBA and NFL games, where there are far fewer teams, they see e…
> Yeah, HTML scraping ESPN.com is not very hard. I've seen a few people respond with this "you can just html scrape that." Sure you can HTML-scrape for the information, but the topic of this "Ask HN" is about what APIs you would like to see. Maybe he already HTML-scrapes ESPN.com, but would prefer that there was an official API for it, no?
Yeah, but I prefer real solutions, regardless of how ugly they are, rather than wishful thinking for so-called "elegant" solutions.
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#128Pandora - Music Genome Project. I've been working on a media player, AuraMP, for a number of years and I've really wanted to plug into sites like Pandora.
what about http://www.last.fm/api ?
Correct, they do have an open api but it just doesn't always seem to have the ability or content that Pandora has. I would like best to use as many of the major providers as possible.
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#129Banks. Online payment processing is a mess.
Interestingly, since the failure of OFX, many many banks in North America prefer screen scraping because they can guarantee the web interface has accurate data since their actual customers use it. Conversely, these banks find supporting APIs to be highly fragile since no one is watching them. I find that logic amazing, but considering how old the online banking software is and the high risk of changing it wholesale,…
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#130Suggest/autocomplete. Well, it's not really enough to call it an API, since it's already just AJAX requests for JSON, but it'd be nice if the format was standardized and they all supported JSONP so that it can be cross-domain.