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Hacker News

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Y Combinator social news aggregator focused on technology, startups, and computer science.

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GEThttps://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json

Get top story IDs

Returns

array of up to 500 story IDs sorted by rank

GEThttps://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{id}.json

Get story, comment, or poll details

Parameters

iditem ID (integerrequired

Returns

id, type (story|comment|job|poll), title, url, text, by, time, score, descendants, kids[]

GEThttps://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/{username}.json

Get user profile

Parameters

usernameusername (stringrequired

Returns

id, created, karma, about, submitted[] (item IDs)