[krapp]

Hacker News has had an API since 2014[0]. It can be found via the "API" link at the bottom of the page[1].

[0]https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/hacker-news-api

[1]https://github.com/HackerNews/API

[verdverm]

That's a read only, unauthenticated API, correct?

In other words, it does not show how to get up votes for a user, which is only visible to them.