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There's no database for HN. Everything is saved as text files. The save-votes function (line 133 of news.arc), which writes out the hash table of a user's votes
by zck 17y ago
There's no database for HN. Everything is saved as text files. The save-votes function (line 133 of news.arc), which writes out the hash table of a user's votes to a file, is as follows:
(def save-votes (u) (save-table (votes* u) (+ votedir* u)))
So the data could be gotten as a zip, but not a SQL dump.
- kqr2 17y agoInteresting. If HN ever decides to go the database route, sqlite might be a good fit since it's relatively simple and everything is stored as a single file.