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The robots.txt file doesn't seem to disallow scraping. https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt

Scraping the listing pages seems allowed though.

I don't think there's a prohibition to screen scraping, but if you make too many requests to the server in a certain amount of time, your IP will be banned to prevent the server from melting.

Agree. Also HN have RSS.