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Re: Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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Post by shannifin »

yunusabd wrote: post #7
pan69 wrote: post #6

Nice. Would it be possible to add a link to the actual submission as it is being discussed?

Definitely! I was thinking to just show a list of all the links under the player, would that work for you?

Was thinking the same thing. Very fun idea, nice work!

Re: Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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Post by yunusabd »

mirrorchair01 wrote: post #9

This is really great stuff, love the added "news-station" type music! If something like this we're to be monetized would there be any issues regarding copyright?

Thank you! And that's a really good question. Since it's summarizing the articles, I would assume that there shouldn't be any issues regarding copyright. Regarding the comments that it's using, I think HN generally has some rights to them, although again it's more of a summarization. Generally HN seems cool about these things.

Now, if you were to scan the homepage of the BBC and create a news broadcast from it, they probably wouldn't be too happy about that, understandably. I have no idea how this would fare in court though.

Re: Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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Post by andai »

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 on the front of HN.

I like that it summarizes the comments too. There are often real gems buried in there. (I assume you're only taking a few top ones?)

I think a great improvement could be made with personalization. Most of what's on the front page isn't personally relevant to me, and there's a lot of cool stuff on the new submissions page that never catches on. So it would be nice if a system could learn what kind of stories I personally respond to, and show me (a summary of?) those -- even if they aren't currently trending.

Last.fm came out 20 years ago (proving you don't even need AI for amazing recommender systems), but it seems personalizing your experience never really caught on. (Yeah, the YouTube algorithm kind of does this, but you unfortunately have no real control over it.)

Re: Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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Post by pugio »

Love it. Reminds me of the also useful Hacker News Recap from wondercraft but it looks like that stopped updating as of October 1st (https://www.wondercraft.ai/our-podcasts/hacker-news).

Would be great to have a playback speed button as well. (I can't sit through any audio at 1x.)

Re: Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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Post by Terretta »

yunusabd wrote: post #3
seungwoolee518 wrote: post #2

Wow... Really great. Can you add some historical archive to listen n hours ago (or morning briefing like) summary as a feature?

Thanks! An archive shouldn't be too hard to implement. Would a morning briefing include more of a curated selection of news, like the most interesting/most discussed news of the day? Currently I just take the top 5 posts from the main page.

Not just the top five, more like http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ which also ensures newness.

Because of that, catching up on several days will also be unique stories.

Re: Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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Post by ewalk153 »

yunusabd wrote: post #13
mirrorchair01 wrote: post #9

This is really great stuff, love the added "news-station" type music! If something like this we're to be monetized would there be any issues regarding copyright?

Thank you! And that's a really good question. Since it's summarizing the articles, I would assume that there shouldn't be any issues regarding copyright. Regarding the comments that it's using, I think HN generally has some rights to them, although again it's more of a summarization. Generally HN seems cool about these things. Now, if you were to scan the homepage of the BBC and create a news broadcast from it, they…

Did you add the “hi mom” bit at the end, or was that organic?
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