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Re:Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI? by krapp on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:29AM (#15226159)
> Is it because we are really meant to be reading our news through a REST interface?

It would certainly raise the bar for entry if HN just offered an undocumented API and required users to write their own clients for it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI? by chuck32 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:56AM (#15226265)
True, but it would also perpetuate the stereotype of developers and techies as being a closed community of pretentious nerds.
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