Good for demo but every 5 minutes? Why?

What happened between 2023 and 2024 to cause the usage dropoff?

Please upload to https://academictorrents.com/ as well if possible

> At midnight UTC, the entire current month is refetched from the source as a single authoritative Parquet file, and today's individual 5-minute blocks are removed from the today/ directory.

Wouldn't that lose deleted/moderated comments?

Under the Known Limitations section

  deleted and dead are integers. They are stored as 0/1 rather than booleans.

Is there a technical reason to do this? You have the type right there.

As someone who had made a project analysing hackernews who had used clickhouse, I really feel like this is a project made for me (especially the updated every 5 minute aspect which could've helped my project back then too!)

Your project actually helps me out a ton in making one of the new project ideas that I had about hackernews that I had put into the back-burner.

I had thought of making a ping website where people can just @Username and a service which can detect it and then send mail to said username if the username has signed up to the service (similar to a service run by someone from HN community which mails you everytime someone responds to your thread directly, but this time in a sort of ping)

[The previous idea came as I tried to ping someone to show them something relevant and thought that wait a minute, something like ping which mails might be interesting and then tried to see if I can use algolia or any service to hook things up but not many/any service made much sense back then sadly so I had the idea in back of my mind but this service sort of solves it by having it being updated every 5 minutes]

Your 5 minute updates really make it possible. I will look what I can do with that in some days but I am seeing some discrepancy in the 5 minute update as last seems to be 16 march in the readme so I would love to know more about if its being updated every 5 minutes because it truly feels phenomenal if true and its exciting to think of some new possibilities unlocked with it.

what's the license for HN content?

Is is possible to only download a subset? e.g. Show HNs or HN Whoishiring. The Show HNs and HN Whoishiring are very useful for classroom data science i.e. a very useful set of data for students to learn the basic of data cleaning and engineering.

You are the product

what’s the license? “do whatever the fuck you want with the data as long as you don’t get caught”? or does that only work for massive corporations