diff --git a/apiserver/feeds/hackernews.py b/apiserver/feeds/hackernews.py
index e4efb11..0ecdadb 100644
--- a/apiserver/feeds/hackernews.py
+++ b/apiserver/feeds/hackernews.py
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ import requests
 from utils import clean
 
 API_TOPSTORIES = lambda x: 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json'
-API_ITEM = lambda x : 'https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/{}'.format(x)
+ALG_API_ITEM = lambda x : 'https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/{}'.format(x)
+BHN_API_ITEM = lambda x : 'https://api.hnpwa.com/v0/item/{}.json'.format(x)
 
 SITE_LINK = lambda x : 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={}'.format(x)
 SITE_AUTHOR_LINK = lambda x : 'https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id={}'.format(x)
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ def api(route, ref=None):
 def feed():
     return [str(x) for x in api(API_TOPSTORIES) or []]
 
-def comment(i):
+def alg_comment(i):
     if 'author' not in i:
         return False
 
@@ -51,19 +52,19 @@ def comment(i):
     c['score'] = i.get('points', 0)
     c['date'] = i.get('created_at_i', 0)
     c['text'] = clean(i.get('text', '') or '')
-    c['comments'] = [comment(j) for j in i['children']]
+    c['comments'] = [alg_comment(j) for j in i['children']]
     c['comments'] = list(filter(bool, c['comments']))
     return c
 
-def comment_count(i):
+def alg_comment_count(i):
     alive = 1 if i['author'] else 0
-    return sum([comment_count(c) for c in i['comments']]) + alive
+    return sum([alg_comment_count(c) for c in i['comments']]) + alive
 
-def story(ref):
-    r = api(API_ITEM, ref)
+def alg_story(ref):
+    r = api(ALG_API_ITEM, ref)
     if not r:
-        logging.info('Bad Hackernews API response.')
-        return False
+        logging.info('Bad Algolia Hackernews API response.')
+        return None
 
     if 'deleted' in r:
         logging.info('Story was deleted.')
@@ -80,17 +81,72 @@ def story(ref):
     s['title'] = r.get('title', '')
     s['link'] = SITE_LINK(ref)
     s['url'] = r.get('url', '')
-    s['comments'] = [comment(i) for i in r['children']]
+    s['comments'] = [alg_comment(i) for i in r['children']]
     s['comments'] = list(filter(bool, s['comments']))
-    s['num_comments'] = comment_count(s) - 1
+    s['num_comments'] = alg_comment_count(s) - 1
+
+    if 'text' in r and r['text']:
+        s['text'] = clean(r['text'] or '')
+
+    return s
+
+def bhn_comment(i):
+    if 'user' not in i:
+        return False
+
+    c = {}
+    c['author'] = i.get('user', '')
+    c['score'] = 0   # Not present?
+    c['date'] = i.get('time', 0)
+    c['text'] = clean(i.get('content', '') or '')
+    c['comments'] = [bhn_comment(j) for j in i['comments']]
+    c['comments'] = list(filter(bool, c['comments']))
+    return c
+
+def bhn_story(ref):
+    r = api(BHN_API_ITEM, ref)
+    if not r:
+        logging.info('Bad BetterHN Hackernews API response.')
+        return None
+
+    if 'deleted' in r:   # TODO: verify
+        logging.info('Story was deleted.')
+        return False
+    elif r.get('type', '') != 'link':
+        logging.info('Type "{}" is not "link".'.format(r.get('type', '')))
+        return False
+
+    s = {}
+    s['author'] = r.get('user', '')
+    s['author_link'] = SITE_AUTHOR_LINK(r.get('user', ''))
+    s['score'] = r.get('points', 0)
+    s['date'] = r.get('time', 0)
+    s['title'] = r.get('title', '')
+    s['link'] = SITE_LINK(ref)
+    s['url'] = r.get('url', '')
+    if s['url'].startswith('item'):
+        s['url'] = SITE_LINK(ref)
+    s['comments'] = [bhn_comment(i) for i in r['comments']]
+    s['comments'] = list(filter(bool, s['comments']))
+    s['num_comments'] = r.get('comments_count', 0)
+
+    if 'content' in r and r['content']:
+        s['text'] = clean(r['text'] or '')
+
+    return s
+
+def story(ref):
+    s = alg_story(ref)
+    if s is None:
+        s = bhn_story(ref)
+    if not s:
+        return False
+
 
     if s['score'] < 25 and s['num_comments'] < 10:
         logging.info('Score ({}) or num comments ({}) below threshold.'.format(s['score'], s['num_comments']))
         return False
 
-    if 'text' in r and r['text']:
-        s['text'] = clean(r['text'] or '')
-
     return s
 
 # scratchpad so I can quickly develop the parser
@@ -98,3 +154,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     print(feed())
     #print(story(20763961))
     #print(story(20802050))
+
+    #print(story(42899834))   # type "job"
+    #print(story(42900076))   # Ask HN
+    print(story(42899703))   # normal