Show HN: Download the first 10,002,378 HN comments/stories as one archive

Somehow I can never turn down a data dump, despite never having done much with one.<p>Some day!

Thank you for this! I&#x27;m training word2vec on it right now - will take several hours.<p>If anyone else is interested here is the (terrible) code to get it into a prototype format. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;binarymax&#x2F;d3691180e65ff7f0dec5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;binarymax&#x2F;d3691180e65ff7f0dec5</a>

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn-archive.appspot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn-archive.appspot.com&#x2F;</a><p>Clickable

Someone should map the use of tech buzzwords over the years. Would be pretty funny to look at.

I wish it included upvotes&#x2F;downvotes. Why are those secret? It would be fun to work on ranking algorithms, and any inc effective requires knowing who is doing the up&#x2F;down voting.

&gt; 10,002,378<p>what date range does this correspond to? How big is the archive?

Does this include [dead] comments?

Which pieces of data are included with each comment&#x2F;link?

What license applies to the archive? Creative commons?

meta data request: can someone scrape the tracker and provide a log of the all the IPs that participated in the swarm?