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by jimueller 2452 days ago
You are jumping to conclusions. Because the HN UI is not everyone's cup of tea, there are a lot of people that have reworked the UI for mobile, etc. Also, there isn't or wasn't an HN API, so scraping was the only option. Finally, there's a lot of people who take on the exercise for fun, so you get "HN in VueJS" which aren't nefarious, just exercises.

Look at your results, why would you think "React HN clone" on github.io was something other than just a personal fun project.