My problem with HackerNews API (having done something like this -- the Hacker News Filter on Github) is that you get throttled after you hit a certain number of HTTP requests and your IP gets banned for a certain amount of time.
So as nice as this is, it simply won't work here for the many people who would like to use near live data on HN.
The page contents are cached and page is fetched every 1 hour. In fact cache is expired only for HackerNews API from the backend. Expiry feature is still not pushed
So as nice as this is, it simply won't work here for the many people who would like to use near live data on HN.