No REST without link relations; and fixed resource identifiers go contrary. Nearly all HN submissions that claim to be REST are not, personally I haven't seen a single one in 2013. That's a shame.
yes, REST is same as web scale a.k.a mongodb. Developer community has also appropriated functional programming to mean angular.js. or was that underscore or something.
Could you provide a good example of a fully RESTful API? I've seen lots of comments on HN and other places saying "this is not REST", but I don't really recall one where people said "yep, this is REST."
I'd be curious to see what it should really look like.