An analysis of the complete HN history with command line tools only

In plain words

This is a command-line tool for analyzing historical Hacker News data. It processes and extracts information from the complete Hacker News archive using terminal-based utilities. The tool is designed for developers and data analysts who want to explore trends, patterns, and statistics from Hacker News submissions and discussions. The project is available on GitHub for contributions and further development.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

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  22 GB of Hacker News in SQLiteDec 2025 · hackerbook.dosaygo.com · ▲730

  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…

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  Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun2024 · blog.wilsonl.in · ▲520

  Accessible end-to-end deep dive of crawling, embedding, projecting, and semantic searching all of Hacker News for my Hackerverse project.

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  Every open source tool from the "What's HN working on" thread2024 · github.com · ▲169

  Public datsets made with https://getomni.ai/. Contribute to getomni-ai/datasets development by creating an account on GitHub.

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  Find HN threads about the page you're browsing2020 · github.com · ▲260

  Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext

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  Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Terminal2016 · github.com · ▲83

  :newspaper: CLI to browse Hacker News. Contribute to rafaelrinaldi/hn-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

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  My recommendation engine for Hacker News2023 · hn-recommend.julienc.me · ▲314

  Hi! I’m Julien and I built a recommendation engine for Hacker News. I feel like this website is a gold mine. Every day, I find some very interesting stories about a topic. And sometimes, I want to find other stories covering that same topic but I can’t. Hacker News has years of history of awesome discussion and ressources. Unfortunately, I think HN Algolia isn’t helpful in searching these old threads. As a student, I want to learn a lot from this website. This is why I created HN Recommend. Input a sentence or the URL of an article, and get the most popular and similar posts from Hacker…

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