Any way to see the highest ranking a story achieved on hacker news?

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for example, given any submission on HN, what was its top ranking on the news page?

This isn't stored anywhere by us. HNSearch might have it.

they don't appear to, but thanks for the suggestion. i also checked hckrnews, but no luck.

You can use the HNSearch API for that type of query: