Had me scared for a moment that it was running Ruby 2.6 and Rails 5.1.7 in prod. :'D

FYI: The hn search index I'm seeing is about 9 hours old as of 2026-02-23T00:53:00Z. Is that right?

Doesn't seem to have been touched for 3 years. Might be they consider it complete, but given the number of issues and PRs that's been gathering in those 3 years, it feels more like it's abandoned.

I've been having issues logging into my HN account on Harmonic for quite a while, now this, the API is down :/

Ruby is a sleeper for me. I wasn’t around when Ruby on Rails was all the rage for startups, so I always get surprised when I learn that so-and-so started off as a Ruby project.

But it totally makes sense considering its style.

Check HackerBook https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/HackerBook

Repo packages 20 years of Hacker News into a static archive you can run entirely in your browser. The site is just files: HTML, JSON, and gzipped SQLite shards. No server app required.

Easiest way might be to use google cloud's 'bigquery' tool which lets you query hn data with SQL

I just tried

    SELECT *
    FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full` 

and it returns 47049059 rows. And

    SELECT
      MAX(timestamp) AS most_recent_timestamp
    FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`;

gives 2026-02-21 09:12:49 UTC, so it checks out.

There's a BigQuery public dataset

  bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full

There are some data sets but Hacker News has a non rate-limited API (see the bottom of the page) so you can just build one yourself.

I don't think you can get the content of flagged posts without actually scraping the site but that'll get you banned.

The repo page says "This repository was archived by the owner on Feb 10, 2026. It is now read-only."