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

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Post by etewiah »

dsmurrell wrote: post #129
etewiah wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow this is awesome. I've actually been working on something very similar. In my case though I focus on individual stories. Like the commenter above I feel audio doesn't work so well for general overview. I haven't done a showHN yet because it's not quite ready but you can see where it's at here: https://news.gipety.com/hn/10842381/k/218/s/three-years-as-a... I think it would be quite a nice way to give a second life…

I like your project a lot! Please release it. I've been 'summarising' a lot of articles using NotebookLM's new feature and publishing them as podcasts episodes here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0C8DGPdYwZQ1cbvQsnvO6t I've been using their service to easily draw out the key points and if the episode is a good one then I publish it on the feed. I do think that for specific content, that a lot of gold is stored within…

Thanks - I hope to be able to release it in the next few days.

Finding the right content to use for the podcast is quite important and I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to involve the community. Currently I host the audio files and GitHub and anyone is invited to contribute to that.

I checked out your Spotify and there is some good content there but I imagine it will be hard to rank on there.

Would you be interested in collaborating? I am based in the UK and I have some ideas around location based podcasts as well.

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

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Post by etewiah »

mazzystar wrote: post #114

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 titles, and generate abstracts. So, I ended up with these post fragments, and I tried feeding these title + abstract lists to Claude 3.5 Sonnet to string them together into a 5-minute English podcast, emphasizing on making these fragments flow coh…

I like what you've done with zeli!!

It is a shame it did not get so much traction when you did your showHn.

One thing that I think would be useful alongside your summaries would be tags for each item. Have you considered that?

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

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Post by yunusabd »

johnneville wrote: post #130
yunusabd wrote: post #103

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Thanks for the feedback, looks like you're not the only one. Personally I enjoy it, but I can understand that some might find it distracting. I just need to figure out a way to implement a toggle for the music, while also playing nicely with the playback speed etc.

the music is more distracting at higher speeds for me and i usually listen at 1.5x when walking or at the gym. you could have the music be a separate audio track where the playback speed doesnt impact it and the toggle plays it simultaneously with the vocal track or not.

The issue is that the voice track will be shorter than the music track if you speed it up. So you'll have the music playing until the end, but the voice track ending before that. It's definitely possible, just a bit more complex to implement. Maybe when I have the feature to mute the music, I can just mute the music when the speed is changed?

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

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Post by yunusabd »

Adachi91 wrote: post #123

Interesting project, I think it would be nice to also have a volume slider as well as a speed slider. I manually set the volume via wavesurfer.media.volume = 0.10; to keep from hurting my ears.

Now with state-of-the-art volume control for all your volume-control needs!

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

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Post by smusamashah »

Guest9081239812 wrote: post #99

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 homepage, skimmed all of the headlines, read the comments on the top post, and it probably took about 30 seconds. I was done, feeling like I got all the information from HN that I needed, with the intention of checking for new posts later in the d…

https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/e7c9ed3936ba69e522f8cb38... This userscript (can use as a bookmarklet) lets you catchup to all unseen stories quickly. Open HN, click bookmarklet, any new stories will be appended with a "(NEW)". Old stories, will show much their rank was changed. Can set a flag to hide seen stories, or set comment and points threshold to hide/show old stories.

To me it makes it very quick to catchup. I just go over a few pages and can quickly see every new story that I have not seen yet.

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

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Post by afavour »

highwaylights wrote: post #110
Guest9081239812 wrote: post #99

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 homepage, skimmed all of the headlines, read the comments on the top post, and it probably took about 30 seconds. I was done, feeling like I got all the information from HN that I needed, with the intention of checking for new posts later in the d…

I think it’s a case of this not fitting your use case. It wouldn’t replace reading the front page for me but I could really see it replacing a podcast on my morning walk. Especially given the absence of news spin or adverts. I’ll definitely be giving it a try tomorrow.

I don’t want to overindex this point because at the end of the day this is just a fun hack project… but I do think it’s worth considering the behaviors our work encourages.

Much like I think the 24 hour news cycle is detrimental to just about everything, an hourly HN summary strikes me as excessive. No one needs that much HN in their lives. But as you say, a daily summary you listen to the place of a podcast? That feels like the right fit.

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

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Post by brandonchi »

etewiah wrote: post #141
dsmurrell wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like your project a lot! Please release it. I've been 'summarising' a lot of articles using NotebookLM's new feature and publishing them as podcasts episodes here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0C8DGPdYwZQ1cbvQsnvO6t I've been using their service to easily draw out the key points and if the episode is a good one then I publish it on the feed. I do think that for specific content, that a lot of gold is stored within…

Thanks - I hope to be able to release it in the next few days. Finding the right content to use for the podcast is quite important and I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to involve the community. Currently I host the audio files and GitHub and anyone is invited to contribute to that. I checked out your Spotify and there is some good content there but I imagine it will be hard to rank on there. Would you be in…

I like it too. I enjoyed listening to it for 15 min straight.
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