Hacker News - Complete Archive
- Type
- corpus
- Venue
- OpenIndex (HuggingFace)
- Year
- 2026
- Source
- huggingface
- Access
- free
- Language
- English
- Added
- 2026-07-17T20:18:03.752111+00:00
- Verified
- 2026-07-17T20:18:03.752111+00:00
Summary
A complete, live-updated archive of every Hacker News item (stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, job postings, polls) since October 2006, totaling ~48.8 million items and growing with 5-minute live updates. Stored as monthly Parquet files sorted by item ID, it is designed for querying with DuckDB, loading with the datasets library, or processing with any Parquet-compatible tool for NLP and community analysis tasks.
Keywords
hacker-news forum community tech text parquet web-archive discussion
Topics
Web / Tech Discussion
Research notes
- Operated by Y Combinator since 2007. One of the most complete and regularly updated mirrors of Hacker News data on HuggingFace. Includes stats.csv for completeness verification.