Fun fact: At 10,000 calls/hour and 1,000 objects per request, you can download all stories AND comments in less than an hour.
As an aside: I tried to use ML on Hacker News stories and have had exactly zero success. (i.e. the predictive models are not statistically significantly better than the NIR)
I have a few other things in the works related to the hnsearch API (had them almost ready for release a few months ago but then I got distracted); this post is persuading me to finish them up soon. :)
Fun fact: At 10,000 calls/hour and 1,000 objects per request, you can download all stories AND comments in less than an hour.
As an aside: I tried to use ML on Hacker News stories and have had exactly zero success. (i.e. the predictive models are not statistically significantly better than the NIR)