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.hack

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.