6,415,835
stories
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43,979,279
comments
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1,655,056
users
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52,050,170
total records
across 3 objects

Top story authors

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  1. 1 rbanffy 38409 stories
  2. 2 tosh 26347 stories
  3. 3 Tomte 25514 stories
  4. 4 mooreds 22648 stories
  5. 5 bookofjoe 22206 stories
  6. 6 pseudolus 20159 stories
  7. 7 PaulHoule 19652 stories
  8. 8 todsacerdoti 17722 stories
  9. 9 ingve 17487 stories
  10. 10 thunderbong 17245 stories
  11. 11 jonbaer 14416 stories
  12. 12 Brajeshwar 14258 stories
  13. 13 doener 13804 stories
  14. 14 rntn 13336 stories
  15. 15 paulpauper 11374 stories
  16. 16 LinuxBender 11144 stories
  17. 17 JumpCrisscross 10686 stories
  18. 18 gmays 10213 stories
  19. 19 evo_9 9697 stories
  20. 20 jseliger 9433 stories

Top commenters

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{
  "mode": "aggregate",
  "dir": "hn",
  "object": "comments",
  "group_by": [
    "by"
  ],
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}
  1. 1 dang 81105 comments
  2. 2 tptacek 74602 comments
  3. 3 pjmlp 74245 comments
  4. 4 dragonwriter 58668 comments
  5. 5 coldtea 39972 comments
  6. 6 toomuchtodo 39300 comments
  7. 7 TeMPOraL 39260 comments
  8. 8 jacquesm 34225 comments
  9. 9 rayiner 33840 comments
  10. 10 JumpCrisscross 33707 comments
  11. 11 amelius 32890 comments
  12. 12 pjc50 30881 comments
  13. 13 dredmorbius 30809 comments
  14. 14 ghaff 30390 comments
  15. 15 Retric 30041 comments
  16. 16 WalterBright 29792 comments
  17. 17 eru 28588 comments
  18. 18 ceejayoz 28178 comments
  19. 19 saagarjha 28166 comments
  20. 20 Dylan16807 25997 comments

Top users by karma

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  "object": "users",
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  "order_by": "karma",
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}
  1. 1 DepressionApp -4 karma · joined
  2. 2 pg 157,044 karma · joined
  3. 3 prostoalex 125,988 karma · joined
  4. 4 jseliger 84,678 karma · joined
  5. 5 mikeash 74,524 karma · joined
  6. 6 lelf 67,542 karma · joined
  7. 7 PragmaticPulp 66,674 karma · joined
  8. 8 tokenadult 62,522 karma · joined
  9. 9 llambda 58,401 karma · joined
  10. 10 LinuxBender 57,392 karma · joined
  11. 11 DanBC 56,528 karma · joined
  12. 12 smacktoward 54,886 karma · joined
  13. 13 protomyth 49,943 karma · joined
  14. 14 icebraining 48,920 karma · joined
  15. 15 ssclafani 48,106 karma · joined
  16. 16 cwan 45,871 karma · joined
  17. 17 raganwald 45,001 karma · joined
  18. 18 untog 43,841 karma · joined
  19. 19 yummyfajitas 41,937 karma · joined
  20. 20 okket 40,755 karma · joined

stories

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{
  "mode": "describe-object",
  "dir": "hn",
  "object": "stories"
}
6,415,840 records · 64 shards · 10 indexes
fieldtypebytesindexed
byvarchar34●
timetimestamp8●
scoreint4●
urlvarchar514—
titlevarchar130—
textvarchar4098—
descendantsint4—
typeenum1—
deletedbool1—
deadbool1—
composite indexes: by+timetype+timetype+score

comments

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show shard-db query
{
  "mode": "describe-object",
  "dir": "hn",
  "object": "comments"
}
43,979,337 records · 256 shards · 8 indexes
fieldtypebytesindexed
byvarchar34●
timetimestamp8●
parentint4●
story_rootint4●
textvarchar4098—
deletedbool1—
deadbool1—
composite indexes: by+timestory_root+time

users

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show shard-db query
{
  "mode": "describe-object",
  "dir": "hn",
  "object": "users"
}
1,655,059 records · 32 shards · 2 indexes
fieldtypebytesindexed
karmaint4●
createdtimestamp8●
aboutvarchar1026—
submitted_countint4—

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