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It would not be legal or ethical for most websites. But HN might be different, because it doesn't try to make money (so you aren't depriving it of anything tan
by cjbprime 10y ago
It would not be legal or ethical for most websites. But HN might be different, because it doesn't try to make money (so you aren't depriving it of anything tangible by rehosting its content), and it has a public API that includes stories (you should use it, of course) that doesn't mention anything about republishing content being forbidden, or say that it's limited to personal use.
Hopefully an HN moderator or similar will know the answer and reply here. If they don't, you should email HN.
- josefdlange 10y agoIf you were really clever, you could just store some data structure that is the IDs of the post and the desired comments and use the API to pull them on page load (maybe with a nice cache layer). In that case, you're just curating and displaying HN content without hosting it.