I fear that "gcombinator" could breach copyright?

Maybe, however, they might not care as the API is freely available anyways

You're right.. well hope it doesn't come to that

For example this post here becomes: https://news.gcombinator.com/item?id=46780583

is this supposed to be LLM optimization or what's the primary use-case for this?

Easy copy paste of the thread metadata. Try to copy the thread title without it.

Says JavaScript is disabled in my Brave.