Any way to see the highest ranking a story achieved on hacker news?

1 pointsforgetcolor14y ago3 comments

for example, given any submission on HN, what was its top ranking on the news page?

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pg14y ago· 2 in thread

This isn't stored anywhere by us. HNSearch might have it.

they don't appear to, but thanks for the suggestion. i also checked hckrnews, but no luck.

andres14y ago

You can use the HNSearch API for that type of query:

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