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Ask HN: Is item?id on Hacker News always increasing?
Take the url of any submission (comment/story...) and you might have noticed the item?id attribute.
For example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30070369
For a personal project, I am wondering if this number is always increasing, upon each new story or comment, or does it happen that lower identifiers are re-used when a new submission is published?
Is there any reference or documentation on this particular field?
- compressedgas 4y agoI think that they are always increasing as the deleted items are still there in the sequence.
- gostsamo 4y agoalways increases, check really old stuff.