Top Commentors of all time. tptacek is at 1st place with 33839 comments.

Hacker news is 12 years old. That's an average of 7 comments per day since inception. Wow

    #standardSQL
    SELECT
      author,
      count(DISTINCT id) as `num_comments`
    FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.comments`
    WHERE id IS NOT NULL
    GROUP BY author
    ORDER BY num_comments DESC
    LIMIT 100;