README.md

metadata

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

Hackernews Comments Dataset

A dataset of all HN 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. Scraper code is also available on github: 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:

{
  "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 library.

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License

Apache License 2.0.