HN has an API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API I'm using it to track common items here and on Lobste.rs (and Proggit): htt

HN has an API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API I'm using it to track common items here and on Lobste.rs (and Proggit): http://gerikson.com/hnlo/ http://gerikson.com/hnlo/ Here's the endpoint for the latest 500 submissions: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/newstories.json https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/newstories.json here's the one for the current top stories: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json It's actually quite nice to work with. I don't know how to keep track of comments moving from thread to thread, because that's not a metric I'm interested in, but it should be possible to track somehow.