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throwaway41597 on June 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback M...

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://hackertimes.com/item?id=1

dubin on June 20, 2015 [–]

I think part of the discrepancy is comments that are marked dead, which might be getting counted by the API.

throwaway41597 on June 21, 2015 | [–]

I believe there is more to it:

http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2009-9 shows 14 comments

https://hackertimes.com/item?id=818157 has 87.

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