Re:Merry Christmas to HN
by srcreigh on Thursday December 25, 2014 @02:19AM
(#8795723)
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