Ask HN: Whats the Status of the Hacker News Write API?

I doubt it. Easily 10X the amount of spam and low quality posts HN would have to deal with.

What makes you think that getting a write api will significantly increase spam? I don't think the current system of submitting a HTML form (essentially a POST) is a high barrier to begin with.

Try hn@ycombinator.com if nobody publicly answers.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

api@ycombinator.com

I've emailed Scott a few times about HN bugs and he's very responsive. I'm curious to hear what he says.