So to get all the data you need to grab the archive and all the 5 minute update files.
archive data is here https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news/tree/...
update files are here (I know that its called "today" but it actually includes all the update files which span multiple days at this point) https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news/tree/...
probably uncalled for
they are suggesting that the huggingface description should be automatically updating the date & item count when the data gets updated.