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Hacker News publishes this dataset freely to the bigquery data marketplace

https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combi...

This product was built to connect to your own database but I thought it was fun to connect to the HN dataset

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This is not relevant to your point but I want to say that's an entirely third party project and we didn't even know about it for a long time. We don't publish data to them except in the sense that we publish it to everybody: https://github.com/HackerNews/API.

I think their page gives a misleading impression that the project is somehow official, when it's not (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43850991).

Thanks for the clarification dang. I was misled by the listing which lists the author/publisher as "Y Combinator". Thanks for offering the official API.

I would like to add that the fact that there is an API does not mean that you as an API consumer have rights to the content that comes out of the API. Simplified, everyone participating on HN holds the copyright to the content they've created, so comments, submissions, etc, HN holds a perpetual license to that content, you don't hold any rights to it.

Data is unable to regurgitate a comment in my style and pass it for something I have written. If a person were to do that, that'd be quite rude, but if it's AI it's perfectly fine? I do not think so.

In public you have no control over how someone uses a picture of your likeness

That's not true in the case of impersonating someone based on public recording of them. You'll quickly run afoul of Right of Publicity laws. It's one thing to simply record people in public where they don't have an expectation of privacy. It's quite another to impersonate them.

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