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Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m

Details

External ID
47378781
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m
Website domain
huggingface.co
Launched
March 14, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
408
Upvotes percentile
0.990159901599016
Tags
—
Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Data infrastructure
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
hacker news dataset in parquet format
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes This is a simple scheduled script (cron/GitHub Actions) polling the public Hacker News Firebase API and writing batches to Parquet files uploaded to Hugging Face.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: DuckDB with SQLite extension, HuggingFace hub, Microsoft.AI.Extensions (.NET), Alternative HN frontends

Concerns raised: AI slop flooding makes pre-2020 content preservation harder, Legal permissions unclear for using HN data, Ingestion time too slow (week-long process), Rate limiting and API access constraints

Feature requests: DuckDB to SQLite conversion (reduce ingestion to 5 minutes), Batch abstraction for chat/embedding interfaces, Near real-time data refresh capability, C# / .NET equivalent implementation

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 146 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #5 of 147 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 127 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

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