wen HN parity? i was told there would be a lambo API.
636 sats \ 29 comments \ @anon 8 Dec 2023 meta
This site's inspiration, Hacker News, has had an API for ages:
https://github.com/HackerNews/API
Why doesn't Stacker News have one? Being able to read HN without a web browser is bliss, like Usenet in the old days. I'd much rather read Stacker News that way than HN, but you're not giving us a choice here...
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8343 sats \ 3 replies \ @anon 8 Dec 2023
I have to say that using LN to upvote posts is pretty addictive (I've been reading this site for about a month but this is my first time actually sending sats).
It's like flinging nickels at people. Disturbingly fun. You can do it to people who help you and to people who annoy you. Very strange.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 8 Dec 2023
Why no account though with LNURL-auth?
You'll just be a random pubkey until you want to set your nym. This way, you'll receive any sats that you got zapped in your account.
Any sats that @anon got zapped ends up in the daily reward pool
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 8 Dec 2023
Electrum doesn't support lnurl-auth (as far as I can tell).
I'm seriously considering implementing it myself, because it looks like all the clients that do support it are either idiotphone apps or else bloated piles of electron.
I don't suppose there are any command-line lnurl-api clients? Maybe in rust? Okay I'm probably pushing my luck there.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 8 Dec 2023
I'm seriously considering implementing it myself, because it looks like all the clients that do support it are either idiotphone apps or else bloated piles of electron.
If it helps, you could say I implemented the wallet/client part of LNURL-auth for tests here in Golang.
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1576 sats \ 21 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 8 Dec 2023
You can use the api if you’re clever enough
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0 sats \ 8 replies \ @anon 8 Dec 2023
Yes but nobody's going to put serious effort into writing software for a bootleg reverse-engineered API that can be vanished at any time with no reputational consequences for the site.
Come on guys. Man up. Free the WOT!
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100 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 8 Dec 2023 freebie
two people already started
Also, I just remembered that @elvismercury was playing around with the GraphQL playground here
Isn't this already like a public, documented API?
You can even use it from your browser, lol
So at least the argument that you have to reverse-engineer it no longer holds
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 8 Dec 2023 freebie
bootleg reverse-engineered API that can be vanished at any time with no reputational consequences for the site.
I think you just answered your own question:
Why doesn't Stacker News have one?
0 sats \ 11 replies \ @ek 8 Dec 2023 freebie
This, lol
This site has no documented public API because... I'm sure you'll be able to guess :)
Or should I say no API that is documented in the form one might expect when they hear "documented API" :)
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 8 Dec 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Xlindo 8 Dec 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 8 Dec 2023
Why doesn't Stacker News have one?
@anon, I dare you to guess!
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