Core Value Proposition
Unlock a wealth of insights from the Hacker News community with our comprehensive dataset. Gain access to every story, comment, Ask HN, Show HN, job posting, and poll since 2006, updated every 5 minutes. This dataset provides unparalleled access to one of the most influential tech communities on the internet.
Key Features
- Complete Archive: Access all Hacker News content from its inception.
- Live Updates: Updated every 5 minutes to ensure the most current information.
- Two Configs: Default (entire dataset) and Today (daily data)
- Parquet Format: Efficient storage and retrieval of data.
- Tabular and Textual Data: Supports various analysis types.
Use Cases
- Sentiment Analysis: Analyze community sentiment towards specific technologies or companies.
- Trend Identification: Identify emerging trends and topics within the tech industry.
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tasks: Use the dataset for text generation, feature extraction, and text classification.
- Question Answering: Train models to answer questions based on Hacker News content.
- Market Research: Gather insights into user preferences and opinions.
- Building Community Engagement Tools: Build tools which promote increased engagement for communities, companies, or projects.
Data Details
- Size: 10M < n < 100M
- Number of Rows: Over 47 million
- License: odc-by
- File Format: Parquet



