Ever wondered what is Hacker News' favorite xkcd comic? Wonder no more! Here is how I answered this important question. (By favorite, I mean the most cited.) Easy-peasy, just use BigQuery There's a publicly available dataset on BigQuery — Google's big data analytics platform. From https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combinator/hacker-news: This dataset contains all stories and comments from Hacker News from its launch in 2006 to present. Each story contains a story ID, the aut...