The owner, tod sacerdoti, is using it to scrape top stories from lobste.rs and submit them to HN as a karma arbitrage pump. Search todsacerdoti on https://gerikson.com/hnlo/ to see what I’m talking about. Judging by the amount of HN karma he’s accumulated it seems to work very well.
Consider setting a delay of a few days before reposting, sometimes people post their own stuff on lobste.rs, want to also post on HN and you've already done so. It can be perceived negatively.
