Hacker News as an API: any story list (front page, newest, Ask HN, Show HN, best, jobs) page by page, and a story with its whole comment thread.
A page of stories: rank, title, link, site, points, author, date and comment count. `next_page` is the link to the next page.
list Empty for the front page, or newest, ask, show, best, front (a past day's front page), jobs.page Page number, from 1 (30 stories per page).One story (or Ask HN, poll, job) with its text and every comment: author, date, depth in the thread, text as Markdown. Long threads continue on `next_page`.
id The number in news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…page For long threads, from 1.