Comment on Show HN: Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker NewsComments−throwaway4159711yThis is great. It seems that the comment counts are off though: go to [0] and look at the top story. It shows 18 comments but [1] only has 15.[0]: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1−dubinOP11yI think part of the discrepancy is comments that are marked dead, which might be getting counted by the API.−throwaway4159711yI believe there is more to it:http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2009-9 shows 14 commentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818157 has 87.
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This is great. It seems that the comment counts are off though: go to [0] and look at the top story. It shows 18 comments but [1] only has 15.
[0]: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
I think part of the discrepancy is comments that are marked dead, which might be getting counted by the API.
I believe there is more to it:
http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2009-9 shows 14 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818157 has 87.