hacker news support: publish, backfeed

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mentioned on irc today by @sknebel, @gkbrk, and @chrisaldrich, along with #505.

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API docs. i didn't see votes, but otherwise looks pretty complete.

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instructions on how to add a new silo to bridgy.

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@sknebel raised a fascinating idea in chat today: HN has a public firehose, so we could do this service-wide, for the entire site, without needing individual users to auth Bridgy into their accounts. Might be a candidate for https://snarfed.org/backfeed-without-code ?

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Also reminds me of #420 and https://telegraph.p3k.io/superfeedr

[sknebel]

https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/ could be useful for this (both for a backfeed-without-code and to base bridgy code on - they also have an older python implementation)

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@sknebel raised a fascinating idea in chat today: HN has a public firehose, so we could do this service-wide, for the entire site, without needing individual users to auth Bridgy into their accounts.

I did this in https://github.com/snarfed/hackermention ! Quick and dirty, very hacky, didn't fully finish or document or write it up. I have the API consuming code and conversion there though, should help if/when anyone wants to try adding this to Bridgy and granary.

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One catch: Hacker News doesn't do OAuth, so we'd need to use IndieAuth. Which is fine, we already use it for the FB/Instagram browser extension.