Hacker News

Hacker News is a social news website for programmers and entrepreneurs. It is run by the startup incubator Y Combinator.

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Official API docs available at https://github.com/HackerNews/API^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}
- Older API at https://hn.algolia.com/api^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}
"The site has a proactive attitude in moderating content, including automated flame and spam detectors." Comments made by hellbanned users are not viewable by other users, unless they have checked the "showdead" option in their profile.
- Example hellbanned user: Example^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}URL not specified; if the URL contains an = please prefix it with 1= so it is not treated as a named template parameter
- Dead comments can also be accessed through the official API. For example, https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/7865614.json^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}
Threads and comments are accessible via the same URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=ID
- Each ID seems to be incremental. For example, Example^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}URL not specified; if the URL contains an = please prefix it with 1= so it is not treated as a named template parameter is the very first thread.
- The very first comment seems to be Example^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}URL not specified; if the URL contains an = please prefix it with 1= so it is not treated as a named template parameter