Ask HN: Any (free) Hacker News datasets around?

I believe the one from big query is updated?

I just tried using this query

SELECT * FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full` WHERE type='comment' ORDER BY timestamp desc LIMIT 100

It returns comments as recent as August 2, 2021

If you have time, you can get everything from the API. Get the latest ID, iterate down and download the comments.

Does the API even work anymore? I'm getting prompted to login to Google when trying something like "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/28065009"

you have to add .json at the end

Here's the current page as seen by the API.

Maybe try Algolia