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Crawling the Hacker News

2 pointsby Danilkaalmost 14 years ago
How legal and possible is that to crawl news.ycombinator.com and repost it on my blog, for instance?

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ColinWrightalmost 14 years ago
Perfectly possible. Ethical? Different question.<p>Further, if you annoy hackers and they think you are being unethical, they may choose to take more "direct action".<p>Why would you do this anyway? If you actually do some work and invest some effort, somehow to increase the value, it would be less objectionable. Perhaps curate, summarise, then point at the original.
Danilkaalmost 14 years ago
I just wanted to make it look more readable. Like that Chrome extension, just posted on some permanent url, so you can access it from anywhere.