[bustadjustme]

> By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.

You may have issued such a license...

Though without an explicit sublicense from Y Combinator, they may have issues with this application:

> Except as expressly authorized by Y Combinator, you agree not to modify, copy, frame, scrape, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Site or the Site Content, in whole or in part, except that the foregoing does not apply to your own User Content (as defined below) that you legally upload to the Site.

https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou

[sebastiennight]

This is simply calling the official YC API[0] from the end user's browser, so any user is basically doing the equivalent of clicking the Text-to-Speech accessibility button in their browser, really (albeit with better voices).

[0]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API