[jerbear4328]

Haha, my version makes a websocket connection to the official Firebase that the HN servers already send everything to, so it is zero extra load on HN

[geuis]

Yours is the MUCH better approach. When I did it, no api!

[lxgr]

That sounds interesting, are there any public details on this? Is it https://github.com/HackerNews/API ?

[rahimnathwani]

You can stream the ID of the most recent item with something like this:

  curl -N -H "Accept: text/event-stream" "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/maxitem.json"

Then you will need to iterate through the new item IDs and fetch them, e.g.

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/45534174.json