What does it use to scrape? Is it just an xml/html parser, or does it run a headless browser?
Headless yes.
You write WSL (Web Scraping Language) to scrape 2 pages of HN:
GOTO news.ycombinator.com | EXTRACT {.morelink, 2} {news: .storylink}
(you may certainly remove that ' , 2 ' business based on the moral system you subscribe to)