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minimaxir / hacker-news-undocumented

Some of the hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ.
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Open simonw opened 1 month ago

simonw commented 1 month ago

If you are following the conversation on a thread it can be useful to see the most recently added comments first. You can do this using the undocumented /latest?id= endpoint. For example, for the thread /item?id=42009039 you can see comments in reverse chronological order at /latest?id=42009039. This works for whole threads and also for nested replies to a sub-thread, using that comment's ID.