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[colinbartlett]

They've been reluctant to change the markup because of the many scrapers. Hence, the recently released API in preparation. An updated UI is incoming.

[andy_ppp → colinbartlett]

The majority get a poorer experience because a few people are scraping? I'm guessing 99% of traffic is from people hitting the site in browsers.

[noblethrasher → andy_ppp]

HN has historically subscribed to a form of deontological ethics[1] rather than utilitarianism.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/introduction/duty_1.shtml

(I happen to agree with HN’s ethical posisition, but I invite you to look at the section “Bad points of duty-based ethics” in the link).

[andy_ppp → noblethrasher]

You are assuming the rule "Never change the source code unless you have to" is a deontological imperative.

It's not really is it? It's just something you believe and are justifying with obscure ethical arguments. Thanks for the reading :-D