Hacker News Complete Archive Every Hacker News item since 2006, live updated every 5 minutes Table of Contents What is it? What is being released? Breakdown by today Breakdown by year How to download and use this dataset Dataset statistics Content breakdown Community insights How it works Dataset card Dataset summary Dataset structure Dataset creation Considerations for using the data Additional information What is it? This dataset contains the complete Hacker News archive: every story, comment, Ask HN, Show HN, job posting, and poll ever submitted to the site. Hacker News is one of the longest running and most influential technology communities on the internet, operated by Y Combinator since 2007. It has become the de facto gathering place for founders, engineers, researchers, and technologists to share and discuss what matters in technology. The archive currently spans from 2006 10 to 2026 06 12 06:35 UTC , with 48,429,107 items committed. New items are fetched every 5 minutes and committed directly as individual Parquet files through an automated live pipeline, so the dataset stays current with the site itself. We believe this is one of the most complete and regularly updated mi…
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