I recently noticed that the export was broken (since Nov 2022) and I worked with the team to help fix it. It'll now again run daily.

SELECT timestamp FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full` ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1 # 2024-06-09 09:12:55 UTC

[1]: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combinator/hacker-news