Table: hackernews_best - Query Hacker News Best Stories using SQL

Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by investment fund and startup accelerator, Y Combinator. Users submit stories (known as "posts"), which are voted and commented upon, similar to Reddit.

Table Usage Guide

The hackernews_best table provides insights into the best stories within Hacker News. As a data analyst or a data enthusiast, explore story-specific details through this table, including titles, authors, and scores. Utilize it to uncover information about stories, such as those with the highest upvotes, the most engaged authors, and the most popular topics.

Examples

Best stories by score

Discover the top-rated stories on Hacker News by sorting them in descending order based on their score. This can be useful for identifying popular trends and high-interest topics within the community.

select
  *
from
  hackernews_best
order by
  score desc;

select
  *
from
  hackernews_best
order by
  score desc;

Best stories with most comments

Discover the most engaging stories on Hackernews by sorting them according to the number of comments they have received. This can be useful for understanding what topics or story types generate the most discussion among users.

select
  *
from
  hackernews_best
order by
  descendants desc;

select
  *
from
  hackernews_best
order by
  descendants desc;

Query examples

Schema for hackernews_best

Name	Type	Operators	Description
_ctx	jsonb		Steampipe context in JSON form, e.g. connection_name.
by	text		The username of the item's author.
dead	boolean		True if the item is dead.
deleted	boolean		True if the item is deleted.
descendants	bigint		In the case of stories or polls, the total comment count.
id	bigint	=	The item's unique id.
kids	jsonb		The ids of the item's comments, in ranked display order.
parent	bigint		The comment's parent: either another comment or the relevant story.
parts	jsonb		A list of related pollopts, in display order.
poll	bigint		The pollopt's associated poll.
score	bigint		The story's score, or the votes for a pollopt.
text	text		The comment, story or poll text. HTML.
time	timestamp with time zone		Timestamp when the item was created.
title	text		The title of the story, poll or job. HTML.
type	text		The type of item. One of "job", "story", "comment", "poll", or "pollopt".
url	text		The URL of the story.

Export

This table is available as a standalone Exporter CLI. Steampipe exporters are stand-alone binaries that allow you to extract data using Steampipe plugins without a database.

You can download the tarball for your platform from the Releases page, but it is simplest to install them with the steampipe_export_installer.sh script:

/bin/sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://steampipe.io/install/export.sh)" -- hackernews

You can pass the configuration to the command with the --config argument:

steampipe_export_hackernews --config '<your_config>' hackernews_best