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2021-02-22
Today, I am releasing a Hacker News (read only) frontend in Gemini space.
The data source is HN's api which gives JSON access to the stories, comments,
etc items stored in the firebase database.
https://github.com/HackerNews/API
Since you have to do one roundtrip query per comment level, it is not efficient to load the whole comment tree.
Therefore, I chose to show only the direct children of a comment in a Gemini page, requiring a user click to follow the thread.