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Can Europe get kids off social media?

https://www.ft.com/content/cf465c21-4789-490b-b328-41f6383567d7
1•thm•46s ago•0 comments

I Built a NAS (Buildlog)

https://arne.me/blog/buildlog-nas
1•abahlo•52s ago•0 comments

Making Software: How do computers store data?

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-is-data-stored
1•Garbage•3m ago•0 comments

A timeline of claims about AI/LLMs

https://blog.nethuml.xyz/posts/2026/02/timeline-of-claims-about-ai-llms/
1•nethuml•4m ago•0 comments

Freeciv 3D with hex map tiles and WebGPU renderer

https://freecivworld.net/
1•roschdal•6m ago•0 comments

SpaceX-xAI Merger: Nobody's Talking About the von Neumann Elephant in the Room

1•juanpabloaj•9m ago•0 comments

Smart Homes Are Terrible

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/smart-homes-technology/685867/
3•aarghh•14m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Would you use an ESLint-like tool for SEO that fails your CI/CD build?

1•YannBuilds•15m ago•0 comments

Praise for Price Gouging

https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/praise-for-price-gouging
1•mhb•18m ago•0 comments

Open source infra orchestrator agent clanker CLI

https://github.com/bgdnvk/clanker
1•tekbog•19m ago•0 comments

Lance table format explained simply, stupid (Animated)

https://tontinton.com/posts/lance/
1•tontinton•21m ago•0 comments

Solving Soma

https://anekstein.com/posts/2026-02-01-blocker
1•davidanekstein•21m ago•0 comments

We built a cloud platform for agentic software (our virtualization, etc.)

https://agentuity.com/
1•rblalock•21m ago•2 comments

Show HN: WLM-SLP – A 0D-27D Structural Language for Multi-Agent Alignment

https://github.com/gavingu2255-ai/WLM-Open-Source/blob/main/README.md
1•WujieGuGavin•21m ago•0 comments

Former Tumblr Head Jeff D'Onofrio Steps in as Acting CEO at the Washington Post

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875433/tumblr-jeff-donofrio-ceo-washington-post-layoffs
2•bookofjoe•24m ago•0 comments

Bounded Flexible Arrays in C

https://people.kernel.org/kees/bounded-flexible-arrays-in-c
1•fanf2•25m ago•0 comments

The Invisible Labor Force Powering AI

https://cacm.acm.org/news/the-invisible-labor-force-powering-ai/
1•pseudolus•27m ago•0 comments

Reading Recursion via Pascal

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/reading-recursion-via-pascal
1•AlexeyBrin•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a website that finds patterns on your spreadsheet

https://analyzetable.com
1•kouhxp•28m ago•0 comments

Jokes on You AI: Turning the Tables – LLMs for Learning

https://www.dev-log.me/jokes_on_you_ai_llms_for_learning/
1•wazHFsRy•28m ago•0 comments

You don't need RAG in 2026

https://ryanlineng.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-rag-in-2026
1•kareninoverseas•29m ago•0 comments

WatchLLM – Cost kill switch for AI agents (with loop detection)

https://www.watchllm.dev/
1•Kaadz•32m ago•2 comments

I turned myself into an AI-generated deathbot – here's what I found

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93wjywz5p5o
1•cmsefton•43m ago•1 comments

Management style doesn't predict survival

https://orchidfiles.com/management-style-doesnt-predict-survival/
1•theorchid•44m ago•0 comments

One Generation Runs the Country. The Next Cashed in on Crypto

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-sons-crypto-billions-1e7f1414
1•impish9208•45m ago•1 comments

"I Was Wrong": Why the Civil War Is Running Late [video][2h21m]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDmkKZ7vAkI
1•Bender•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A sandboxed execution environment for AI agents via WASM

https://github.com/Parassharmaa/agent-sandbox
1•paraaz•49m ago•0 comments

Wine-Staging 11.2 Brings More Patches to Help Adobe Photoshop on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-11.2
2•doener•49m ago•0 comments

The Nature of the Beast

https://cinemasojourns.com/2026/02/07/the-nature-of-the-beast/
1•jjgreen•50m ago•0 comments

From Prediction to Compilation: A Manifesto for Intrinsically Reliable AI

1•JanusPater•50m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: What's an API that you wish existed?

11•tornikeo•2w ago
Here are some APIs that I personally wish existed:

1. A public Google Trends API. It's currently in Beta, and I can't access it.

2. I'd pay a pretty penny for an API for OpenAI trends (or Anthropic trends), etc. To discover what people are talking about.

3. I'd also love a discord 'trends' API. Again, the main question I'm looking to answer is 'what topic are people talking about right now?'.

What's an API that you wish existed?

Comments

y42•2w ago
1. Open API for rental/real estate stuff at immoscout24...

There's an API but you have to pay for it. Which I understand on one side, but then: immoscout24 is basicly the biggest player and this is not about consumer goods but one essential good: flats, space to live. So I think it should be mandatory to offer data to everyone who wants to research house & flat pricing/demand data.

2. A generic API for governmental financial transaction data! This would make research so much easiere. There are couple of open data platforms, but look at how scrambled the data is. What is a "financial transaction"? It's basically nothing else then "from, to, amount, reason, category" - I know there's more, but you can break it down, if you want. So, right now every city, district and government is maintaining their own "database". I once tried to analyse EFRE data. Turns out, while this data is basically open and free, every party offers their own weird format, XLSX, CSV and you name it.

I don't see why no one ever tooks the effort to "normalize" such a simple thing - again: I know there's more. But the big picture should simply allow you to create a generic protocol/stream for that kind of data.

KellyCriterion•2w ago
Curious: What is the price they are charging?
KellyCriterion•2w ago
You are basicly looking for an API to tell you where to place your stock bets then, right? :-D
hahahahhaah•2w ago
I like the current stock apis but they limit the end date / time to now.
sockbot•2w ago
API to interface with my telecom companies to start and stop service, manage my account, book service techs, create billing reports
weirdmantis69•2w ago
General sports APIs where you can get real time and historical sports data.
sevenseacat•2w ago
ooh yeah I'd like this one
tmtvl•2w ago
An itch.io API which ticks all the boxes for the Heroic Games Launcher. The Itch app is pretty terrible and Heroic is fairly okay, so it'd be nice if I could manage my collection like I do my GOG collection.
dhruv3006•2w ago
Well I would like an API for “Why Did This Trend?”.

Also making an api client : https://voiden.md/

pseudohadamard•2w ago
WinDisenshittifyAndRestart() would be an API I'd kill for.
dlcarrier•2w ago
A free Reddit API for third party tools to increase usability (sometimes also called accessibility)

Then again, I probably make much better use of my time, because that doesn't exist.

chistev•2w ago
I made a comment before seeing yours.

This was what I said - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702864

dlcarrier•2w ago
There's several Reddit scraper libraries that could be useful. Most popular YouTube clients use scraping, despite Google's active attempts to evade them, and considering Reddit's extremely slow development cadence and poor software quality, I'd expect Reddit scrapers to be pretty stable.
chistev•2w ago
Reddit keeps banning my account despite all my best attempts at evading. It's spooky.

So an API that let's me post and comment on Reddit (I can't use the official Reddit API because I get banned as I said before)

I don't even know if this is possible. But I'd pay for the service.