Either the author is misunderstanding things or I am. I was under the impression that HN had a relatively liberal policy on scrapers, allowing hobbyists to scr

Either the author is misunderstanding things or I am. I was under the impression that HN had a relatively liberal policy on scrapers, allowing hobbyists to scrape the content and present it in alternative UIs, such as https://hckrnews.com https://hckrnews.com or http://hn.elijames.org http://hn.elijames.org That doesn't seem analogous to PBNs, where the value they add is not a better browsing interface but just some extra link juice.