If you're interested in playing with Hacker News data and don't want to download the entire dataset (or don't have the CPU/memory to perform large JOINs on stories/comments), you can use the Google BigQuery HN dataset, which is now up-to-date: <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/hacker-news" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/hacker-news</a> (specifically, the .full table, which combines both stories and comments; the dedicated tables are not up-to-date)
See also: A dump of the stories, comments, and users from the Firebase API as a SQLite database with a full text search index: <a href="https://archive.org/details/hackernews-2017-05-18.db" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/hackernews-2017-05-18.db</a>
Kudos to archive.org for hosting torrents. It would be helpful to know the size of the download up front. Nice clean web page design; would love to see that one bit of information added.