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Hacker News

archive 2025-07-28

The Hacker News dataset provides a valuable glimpse into the tech industry's landscape. It encompasses posts from Y Combinator's social news website, spanning from 2006 to late 2017¹. Here are some key points about this dataset:

  1. Content: The dataset includes posts, discussions, and articles shared on Hacker News during that time period.
  2. Use Cases:
    • Benchmarking: Organizations can use this dataset to benchmark their innovations against industry trends and discussions.
    • Technological Insights: Researchers and analysts can stay informed about technological breakthroughs and emerging trends.
    • Business Strategies: Formulating future-focused business strategies based on the discussions and trends highlighted in the dataset.
  3. Variety of Posts: The dataset covers a wide range of topics, including technology, startups, programming, and more.

(1) Hacker News | Kaggle. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/hacker-news/hacker-news. (2) cypher-07/Cybersecurity-News-Article-Dataset - GitHub. https://github.com/cypher-07/Cybersecurity-News-Article-Dataset. (3) OpenPipe/hacker-news · Datasets at Hugging Face. https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenPipe/hacker-news. (4) Hacker News Dataset - brightdata.com. https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/hacker-news. (5) massanishi/hackernews-post-datasets: Datasets for hackernews posts - GitHub. https://github.com/massanishi/hackernews-post-datasets.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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License archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

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