We're aware the dataset hasn't been updated since a month ago, and we are working to fix it. You can track the issue here:
- https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/127132286
In the meantime you can still play with the dataset, and dig into the full history of Hacker News - less this last month. I left some interesting queries to get you started here:
- https://medium.com/@hoffa/hacker-news-on-bigquery-now-with-d...
Late last night I had a conversation with someone explaining that Hacker News is not your typical message board -- it's owned and operated by YC and sits atop algorithms developed by some of the pioneers in spam and anomaly detection [1] [2], and it's is also an open dataset -- analyzed and scrutinized -- used by hackers worldwide to train and test bespoke AI.
HN is a live MNIST [3] for anomaly detection.
[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
[2] http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/paul-buchheit-man-b...