I also wish it provided upvote and downvote totals, and not solely the final score - it'd allow more a lot more experiments of differing ways to display threads and comments.
AFAIK none of the APIs provide comment votes; you can only get the votes on your own comments, and only by scraping the web page :(
Yep true,. I use the same approach to run weekly top 30 hn show newsletter.
I disagree, there's good reason for hiding those totals from users, in any way.
What are the reasons, and are they all trying to prevent gamification or?