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)