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HN hasn't always had an API, so they didn't want to change the HTML because it would break the apps that rely on scraping the markup to get the content. You can
by srcreigh 12y ago
HN hasn't always had an API, so they didn't want to change the HTML because it would break the apps that rely on scraping the markup to get the content. You can read more at this blog post [1] announcing the HN API.
[1]: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api