... true. it's frustrating that /from supports site= but not points= and /over supports points= but not site=
Sometimes HN is a bit too minimalist for no good reason IMO.
Well, there's always running curl on the API. Maybe someone out there has made a nice minimalist non-JS interface that merges /from and /over or otherwise uses the API in a simple HTML wrapper.
Depends, it mostly shows those entries that were not popular or even flagged.