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Hacker News (sometimes abbreviated as HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as “anything that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity.”
This notebook covers how to pull page data and comments from Hacker News 
from langchain_community.document_loaders import HNLoader

loader = HNLoader("https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817881")

data = loader.load()

data[0].page_content[:300]

"delta_p_delta_x 73 days ago  \n             | next [–] \n\nAstrophysical and cosmological simulations are often insightful. They're also very cross-disciplinary; besides the obvious astrophysics, there's networking and sysadmin, parallel computing and algorithm theory (so that the simulation programs a"

data[0].metadata

{'source': 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817881',
 'title': 'What Lights the Universe’s Standard Candles?'}
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