Ask HN: Which post on HN has the most comments?
I checked https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124267 and was amazed at the number of comments. I loaded up the hacker news dataset in google bigquery, which turned out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057647 as the biggest at 9624 comments. Second is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208973 at 5349. Link to the API https://github.com/HackerNews/API (copied from the bottom of the page) Could be this one, perhaps? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208973 ("Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting (bbc.com)") 5044 comments, or 5349 with "showdead" I used a null query,