[maxcellent]

Did you just ddosed them to get the list? Why there is no down vote button here?

Please respect others' work. Writing a scraper nowadays is not cool any more!

[theyCallMeSwift]

Nope, they actually have a public API.

Sounds like you might want to check out the FAQ for answer to your other question. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[xh208]

Considered putting in A mechanism to limit the number of words per person but decided not to. Oh well, its the Internet, what to do eh :)