Yes, I took it all down. I need to rethink this. Clearly some folks aren't happy with it at all. Not that intentions really matter, but my intentions were only to help all of the people who are making HN apps. I figured we could reduce the need to scrape HN if we just distributed the data.

As an API, it was rather unknown. Guess what really ticked people off was the redistribution of the complete data. There are several custom private APIs that scrape HN already (see backtype for instance http://www.backtype.com/page/paulgraham.com%2Ffounders.html and http://www.backtype.com/url/news.ycombinator.com%252fuser%3F... and http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/y-combinator-scraper/), and people don't seem to care the slightest.

Not to mention there are open source tools to scrape HN by yourself: https://github.com/JackDanger/hacker_news