Ask HN: What article submission has accumulated the most points to date?

[andrewhillman]

[patio11]

"Steve Jobs Passed Away", 4,271 points -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128

If you're interested in exploring, play around with the URL parameters for the API. Here's the one which gets you the right answer to this specific question with the minimum amount of work:

http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=&so...

[andrewhillman → patio11]

thank you :)

[simantel → andrewhillman]

You could also check out https://www.hnsearch.com/