[edparcell]

How timely. I just started writing a library to scrape data from Hacker News because I wanted to put the posts I'd upvoted in the sidebar of my blog.

Link: http://blog.edparcell.com/how-i-added-my-hacker-news-saved-s...

Your API has advantages and disadvantages against this approach: On the upside, it provides a uniform way for all languages to access content from HN, which is really cool.

On the downside, all requests through your API have to flow through your server - this makes me uneasy for two reasons: First that you could switch off your servers, esp. if take-up is high and you are not being compensated sufficiently for running them. And second, because I'm uncomfortable authenticating to an intermediary.