Hacker News Posts and Comments from 2007 to 2022

A July 2023 snapshot of the entire archive of posts and comments from the Hacker News platform, covering its inception in 2007 through November 16, 2022. The dataset was created by user jkeisling from Y Combinator's BigQuery dump.

Use Cases

• Analyze technology trend evolution based on post titles and discussion topics.
• Study community moderation and discussion patterns based on comment threads.
• Train language models on technical and startup-related online text.
• Conduct longitudinal analysis of online forum activity over a 15-year period.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range of over 15 years, from 2007 to 2022.
• Represents a complete archive of a major technology-focused online community.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified as the underlying data snapshot is from July 2023.

Provenance

Source

Y Combinator's BigQuery dump of Hacker News.

Collection Method

Snapshot of the BigQuery database archive.

Time Range

2007 to 2022-11-16

Freshness

Last updated 2023-07-05 04:13:00