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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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2026801 stories
An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation↗ lwn.net · HN · 392 comments · 357 points · Jul 10, 2026
Developers don't understand CORS (2019)↗ fosterelli.co · HN · 268 comments · 388 points · Jun 21, 2026
RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method↗ rfc-editor.org · HN · 176 comments · 420 points · Jun 17, 2026
Cloudflare crawl endpoint↗ developers.cloudflare.com · HN · 181 comments · 497 points · Mar 10, 2026
HTTP Cats↗ http.cat · HN · 88 comments · 593 points · Jan 30, 2026
2025881 stories
Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration↗ ankursethi.com · HN · 349 comments · 845 points · Dec 10, 2025
Everything I know about good API design↗ seangoedecke.com · HN · 160 comments · 429 points · Aug 24, 2025
Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text↗ github.com · HN · 112 comments · 461 points · Jun 20, 2025
MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs↗ github.com · HN · 71 comments · 590 points · Jan 02, 2025
Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs↗ apiparrot.com · HN · 117 comments · 456 points · Jan 01, 2025
2024987 stories
A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily↗ freepublicapis.com · HN · 122 comments · 602 points · Aug 27, 2024
API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS↗ jviide.iki.fi · HN · 303 comments · 670 points · May 28, 2024
Popover API↗ developer.mozilla.org · HN · 158 comments · 385 points · May 10, 2024
Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)↗ usebruno.com · HN · 400 comments · 1538 points · Mar 09, 2024
U.S. National Park Service API↗ nps.gov · HN · 191 comments · 410 points · Jan 22, 2024
20231,023 stories
It's time to put REST to rest↗ sollecitom.github.io · HN · 81 comments · 72 points · Dec 28, 2023
OpenAI Function calling and API updates↗ openai.com · HN · 9 comments · 54 points · Jun 13, 2023
Addressing the community about changes to our API↗ old.reddit.com · HN · 98 comments · 97 points · Jun 09, 2023
OpenAPI v4 (aka Moonwalk) Proposal↗ github.com · HN · 16 comments · 42 points · May 31, 2023
Current API plan does not include access to this endpoint↗ developer.twitter.com · HN · 40 comments · 111 points · Mar 06, 2023
2022819 stories
GraphQL kinda sucks↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 433 comments · 720 points · Aug 06, 2022
HTTP Cats↗ http.cat · HN · 63 comments · 427 points · May 19, 2022
Show HN: Mitmproxy2swagger – Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs↗ github.com · HN · 85 comments · 691 points · May 12, 2022
Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman↗ hoppscotch.io · HN · 218 comments · 668 points · Feb 28, 2022
Postman Now Supports gRPC↗ blog.postman.com · HN · 211 comments · 409 points · Feb 02, 2022
2021840 stories
HTTP Toolkit↗ httptoolkit.tech · HN · 124 comments · 538 points · Dec 20, 2021
How to Hack APIs in 2021↗ labs.detectify.com · HN · 89 comments · 334 points · Aug 10, 2021
Notion API – public beta↗ developers.notion.so · HN · 253 comments · 536 points · May 13, 2021
Deep dive in CORS: History, how it works, and best practices↗ ieftimov.com · HN · 58 comments · 387 points · Apr 13, 2021
FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production↗ fastapi.tiangolo.com · HN · 151 comments · 508 points · Feb 01, 2021
20201,145 stories
Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys↗ joealcorn.co.uk · HN · 422 comments · 869 points · Dec 13, 2020
Why not use GraphQL?↗ wundergraph.com · HN · 456 comments · 460 points · Nov 07, 2020
Lesser-known Web APIs↗ blog.greenroots.info · HN · 128 comments · 400 points · Sep 02, 2020
Bible API↗ bible-api.com · HN · 288 comments · 373 points · Jul 05, 2020
Httpx: A next-generation HTTP client for Python↗ python-httpx.org · HN · 115 comments · 463 points · Jan 09, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

HTTPX2 – A next-generation HTTP client for Python↗ github.com · HN · 43 comments · 132 points · Aug 28, 2026
Anthropic Claude and API service outages↗ status.claude.com · HN · 61 comments · 77 points · Aug 24, 2026
Show HN: Karada.ai – CI/CD to turn APIs into MCP servers with 1-click plugins↗ karada.ai · HN · 0 comments · 9 points · Sep 23, 2026
The Valley of Webhooks↗ weli.dev · HN · 102 comments · 247 points · Aug 05, 2026
Show HN: I built a tool that gives any website an API and MCP↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 1 comments · 5 points · Sep 26, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Show HN: Orthogonal – One integration for agents to discover and pay for APIs↗ orthogonal.com · HN · 0 comments · 12 points · Sep 01, 2026
Show HN: Karada.ai – CI/CD to turn APIs into MCP servers with 1-click plugins↗ karada.ai · HN · 0 comments · 9 points · Sep 23, 2026
Reduced integration layer code by 67% replacing REST with grafting↗ github.com · HN · 2 comments · 9 points · Sep 07, 2026
Show HN: MCP Tool Definition Quality Score (TDQS) Spec↗ tdqs.dev · HN · 1 comments · 8 points · Sep 03, 2026
I built an Instagram data dashboard with a REST API back end↗ hikerapi.com · HN · 2 comments · 6 points · Sep 14, 2026
Show HN: I built a tool that gives any website an API and MCP↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 1 comments · 5 points · Sep 26, 2026
Show HN: 1Baton – a no-code tool for chaining API calls↗ 1baton.com · HN · 0 comments · 5 points · Sep 13, 2026
The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?↗ efp.asia · HN · 1 comments · 5 points · Sep 12, 2026
Show HN: I'm not a PostgREST fan this is why I'm building an alternative↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 5 points · Sep 09, 2026
Sprites Connectors is a great example of Terrible API Design↗ freestyle.sh · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 25, 2026

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