I wrote a stupid simple wrapper and pushed it to PyPI. My excuse is that I needed to learn how to use setuptools today.

    pip install hackernews-python

Usage:

    >>> from hackernews import HackerNews
    >>> hn = HackerNews()
    >>> hn.top_stories()
    [8422599, 8422087, 8422928, 8422581, 8423825...
    
    >>> hn.user('pg')
    {'delay': 2, 'id': 'pg', 'submitted': [7494555, 7494520, 749411...

    >>> hn.item(7494555)['title'])
    Hacker News API

    >>> hn.max_item()
    8424314

    >>> hn.updates()
    {'items': [8423690, 8424315, 8424299...], 'profiles': ['exampleuser',...]}

https://github.com/abrinsmead/hackernews-python