HackerNews

In partnership with Firebase, we're making the public Hacker News data available in near real time. Firebase enables easy access from Android, iOS and the web. Servers aren't left out. If you can use one of the many Firebase client libraries, you really should. The libraries handle networking efficiently and can raise events when things change. Be sure to check them out. Please email api@ycombinator.com if you find any bugs. We hope to improve the API over time. The changes won't always be backward compatible, so we're going to use versioning. This first iteration will have URIs prefixed with https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/ and is structured as described below. There is currently no rate limit. For versioning purposes, only removal of a non-optional field or alteration of an existing field will be considered incompatible changes. Clients should gracefully handle additional fields they don't expect, and simply ignore them. The v0 API is essentially…