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22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite

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Community, All the HN belong to you. This is an archive of hacker news that fits in your browser. When I made HN Made of Primes I realized I could probably do this offline sqlite/wasm thing with the whole GBs of archive. The whole dataset. So I tried it, and this is it. Have Hacker News on your device.Go to this repo (https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/HackerBook): you can download it. Big Query -> ETL -> npx serve docs - that's it. 20 years of HN arguments and beauty, can be yours forever. So they'll never die. Ever. It's the unkillable static archive of HN and it's your hands. That's my Year End gift to you all. Thank you for a wonderful year, have happy and wonderful 2026. make something of it.

HN · launched Dec 30, 2025 · 730 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views

Niche: digital history and reference archives · 150 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Data infrastructure
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial The client-side SQLite/WASM viewer is straightforward, but downloading, chunking, indexing, and serving 22 GB of raw HN data via HTTP range requests requires specialized data pipeline work.

What it would actually take: Building this requires ETL scripts pulling the complete HN dataset via BigQuery/Firebase API, normalizing it, and generating highly optimized SQLite databases with custom full-text search indexes. Serving it in-browser demands advanced sqlite-wasm integration using HTTP range requests (like sql.js-http or absurd-sql) to page through large virtual files over CDN without crashing client memory.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: DuckDB with remote HTTP/S3 Parquet files, BigQuery, Go-based VFS implementations

Concerns raised: Performance bottleneck on I/O delivery, not parsing, Mobile design needs improvement, Playback doesn't progress past first note

Feature requests: ASCII keyboard support for music playback instead of MIDI, Search functionality implementation, Daily automatic updates via CI/GitHub Actions

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 154 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #3 of 155 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 54 days after the earliest competitor.

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