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31 positive, 41 neutral or asking, 8 mixed, 14 critical, out of 94 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Idea: 18 for, 4 againstDesign: 4 for, 6 againstExecution: 2 for, 4 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Good idea for catching up on HN during commutes
From 3 comments
Neat! Personally hourly feels a bit much but a daily briefing that can fit inside a commute or on a short walk would be perfect. Might be the first ai podcast I'd subscribe to.
srik on HNGreat idea! I've always wanted to catch up with tech news while walking/driving, particularly from HN.
frays on HNBrilliant idea. I think this has real value as well: as I get older, I find that I have less energy for reading, but I also notice I often miss really cool stuff that was briefly…
andai on HN
Nice AI voice and podcast feel
From 2 comments
The AI voice is good. What are you using to generate it?
jonahx on HNThis is awesome. I like it
alwinaugustin on HN
Objections
Hallucinated or inaccurate summaries
From 2 comments
Pretty neat but it seems to make stuff up. It took a meta comment from this post[1] about the website formatting and suggested the community was worried the C++ memory safety…
throwaway0665 on HN"although details remain sparse due to issues extracting content from the linked resource" Unfortunate that it adds stuff like this, which doesn't seem helpful to the listener.
8organicbits on HN
Too slow and less useful than skimming HN
From 1 comment
Lots of positive feedback here, but after a quick listen, I'm not a fan. To summarize my thoughts... 1. The experience just feels too sluggish. For example, I opened the HN…
Guest9081239812 on HN
Background music is distracting
From 2 comments
Why is it that some people can accept - even like - music behind a voice that tells something? I strongly dislike it. It makes it harder to listen to the voice. Am I the only one?
TekMol on HN+1
andrewstetsenko on HN
Requests
Playback speed control
From 2 comments
Love it. Reminds me of the also useful Hacker News Recap from wondercraft but it looks like that stopped updating as of October 1st…
pugio on HNI like this idea a lot. Archived entries would be nice as others have suggested. It would also be nice to be able to control playback speed.
knowaveragejoe on HN
Archive of past broadcasts
From 2 comments
Wow... Really great. Can you add some historical archive to listen n hours ago (or morning briefing like) summary as a feature?
seungwoolee518 on HNThis strikes a balance with one's use of time and "fear of missing out" (FOMO). Thank you, yunusabd, for creating this service. As a side note, I've been following HN headlines…
kc-chris on HN
Links to covered articles
From 2 comments
I'd love to see a list of the articles covered so as I'm listening I could jump to an article and get more data.
tarwich on HNNice. Would it be possible to add a link to the actual submission as it is being discussed?
pan69 on HN
Personalization of stories
From 2 comments
Brilliant idea. I think this has real value as well: as I get older, I find that I have less energy for reading, but I also notice I often miss really cool stuff that was briefly…
andai on HNWould be cool to create embeddings for historical HN posts, and then use a users favorite posts to personalize the post selection by averaging the embedding vectors for a users…
tristenharr on HN
Questions
Cheaper alternatives to OpenAI text-to-speech
From 1 comment
On a related note, what are some cheaper alternative to Open AI's text to speech? Last I checked it came out to ~$9/day for their text-to-speech.
nabaraz on HN
How the waveform visualization was built
From 1 comment
Really neat! How was the waveform visualization achieved?
synthoidzeta on HN
Alternatives named
Radio HN
From 1 comment
I did https://radio-hn.pages.dev/ last year in the same idea, just once per day. Posted it somewhere here at the time.
olup on HN
Wondercraft Hacker News Recap
From 1 comment
Love it. Reminds me of the also useful Hacker News Recap from wondercraft but it looks like that stopped updating as of October 1st…
pugio on HN
zeli.app
From 1 comment
Last week I had a similar idea as you. I created a webpage called https://zeli.app that automatically helps you parse the content of posts from the HN homepage, rewrite the…
mazzystar on HN