Hacker News Posts And Comments Archive

Hacker News posts and comments from the technology-focused online forum. The dataset contains all content current as of November 1, 2023, compiled by OpenPipe. The metadata indicates a last update to the dataset record in October 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyze comment text for sentiment trends related to technology topics.
• Model post title text to predict user engagement metrics.
• Study temporal patterns in post and comment publication timestamps.
• Examine user interaction networks via post and comment author fields.

Strengths

• Contains all posts and comments from the platform as of a specific date in 2023.
• Dataset record was updated on the Hugging Face platform in October 2024.

Limitations

• Exact row count and data volume are unknown.
• Data is stale for events after November 2023.
• Column names and data structure are unspecified.

Provenance

Source

Hacker News online forum.

Collection Method

Collected and compiled by OpenPipe.

Time Range

Coverage up to November 1, 2023.

Freshness

Data current as of November 2023; dataset metadata updated October 2024.