This link
http://lesswrong.com/r/all/recentposts
gives a page which lists all the recent posts in both the Main and Discussion sections. I've posted it in the comments section before, but I decided to put it in a discussion post because it's a really handy way of accessing the site. I found it by guessing the URL.
The hacking is never a good way to go. Either there will be a link for download the file, or I will not play with it.
The original "file" is actually a database, which is fairly complicated and also private. (And tgb means "hacking" in the sense of writing code, not in the sense of cybercrime)