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---

license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
pretty_name: HackerNews comments dataset
dataset_info:
  config_name: default
  features:
  - name: id
    dtype: int64
  - name: deleted
    dtype: bool
  - name: type
    dtype: string
  - name: by
    dtype: string
  - name: time
    dtype: int64
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  - name: dead
    dtype: bool
  - name: parent
    dtype: int64
  - name: poll
    dtype: int64
  - name: kids
    sequence: int64
  - name: url
    dtype: string
  - name: score
    dtype: int64
  - name: title
    dtype: string
  - name: parts
    sequence: int64
  - name: descendants
    sequence: int64
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: items/*.jsonl.zst
---


# Hackernews Comments Dataset

A dataset of all [HN API](https://github.com/HackerNews/API) items from `id=0` till `id=41723169` (so from 2006 till 02 Oct 2024). The dataset is build by scraping the HN API according to its official [schema and docs](https://github.com/HackerNews/API). Scraper code is also available on github: [nixiesearch/hnscrape](https://github.com/nixiesearch/hnscrape)

## Dataset contents

No cleaning, validation or filtering was performed. The resulting data files are raw JSON API response dumps in zstd-compressed JSONL files. An example payload:

```json

{

  "by": "goldfish",

  "descendants": 0,

  "id": 46,

  "score": 4,

  "time": 1160581168,

  "title": "Rentometer: Check How Your Rent Compares to Others in Your Area",

  "type": "story",

  "url": "http://www.rentometer.com/"

}

```

## Usage

You can directly load this dataset with a [Huggingface Datasets](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/) library.

```python

from datasets import load_dataset



ds = load_dataset("nixiesearch/hackernews-comments")

print(ds.features)



```

## License

Apache License 2.0.