I'm one of the students of App Academy ( which Ned Ruggeri is co-founder of ).
The reason for that is because today one of the tasks was to create a version of HN in ou terminals. HN was blocking people due to repeated requests and thus Ned made a local version of HN for students to use.
Creepy...
That's Ned Ruggeri, co-founder of App Academy (http://www.appacademy.io/). His HN account: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ruggeri
Found via Github search