metadata

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
      dtype: int64
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: items/*.jsonl.zst

Hackernews Comments Dataset

A dataset of all HN API items from id=0 till id=41422887 (so from 2006 till 02 Sep 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.

pip install datasets zstandard

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("nixiesearch/hackernews-comments", split="train")
print(ds.features)

License

Apache License 2.0.