The AI voice is good. What are you using to generate it?
It's openAI's voice generator.
How much each hourly update costs? OpenAI pricing table says $15.000/M characters.
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#152vaguely related someone also made a Hacker News bot on Bluesky
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#153Brilliant 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 fr…
> as I get older, I find that I have less energy for reading, As I get older (50 now), I have 0 patience for anything else than reading; it's much faster than listening and rereading stuff I didn't get the first time is easier and faster. I listen to stuff (including zoom/calls) to stuff that doesn't hold much importance/value; maybe it triggers something, then I go read about it instead.
I think people have different definitions of "reading":
- Skimming: In my day job this is 95% of "reading". I think this is unavoidable, since (even if the material is well written) there's very little chance that two consumers need the same information. In papers I read the abstract, jump to the conclusions, maybe go back to the intro if I'm confused, or check out the methods if that's what matters to me. I get frustrated with any medium where skimming isn't possible, and similar when search isn't possible.
- Reading as in reading a book: this is more for fun or to cool down. Video / podcast seems like a drop-in replacement here. I don't read HN this way. Does anyone?
I think people who create content should be aware of this dichotomy. If you are communicating with experts, make sure your information is well structured. If you are writing literature focus more on the flow.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 fe…
Depends. There’s no such thing as too much news during ww2 or Industrial Revolution.
This is news about how news as we know it is going away, and there’s more news on that coming 24/7. And that’s just the news on the news.
Idea for OP:
If you treat an HN post and it’s comments as a hivemind, you could do something like ‘Interview with the Hivemind: (insert post topic)”, have the AI ask interview questions where the hivemind can respond from the entire thread. This is to get any post into some kind of known podcast format.
If you intersperse talk about Big Foot throughout that interview for no good reason, you could become the #1 podcast in the world.
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#155Is there a way to filter out certain type of stories/submissions?
Or is there any HN filter or web-reader (if any) that can help me do that? I know HN doesn't do submission tags but still if something allows some kind of "type/kind" hiding/removal.
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#156Next step- create an HNN news network with chyrons and AI news anchors that you can have running on the TVs in your office 24/7 the way banks have CNBC and Bloomberg News running
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
> as I get older, I find that I have less energy for reading, As I get older (50 now), I have 0 patience for anything else than reading; it's much faster than listening and rereading stuff I didn't get the first time is easier and faster. I listen to stuff (including zoom/calls) to stuff that doesn't hold much importance/value; maybe it triggers something, then I go read about it instead.
I think people have different definitions of "reading": - Skimming: In my day job this is 95% of "reading". I think this is unavoidable, since (even if the material is well written) there's very little chance that two consumers need the same information. In papers I read the abstract, jump to the conclusions, maybe go back to the intro if I'm confused, or check out the methods if that's what matters to me. I get frus…
> I don't read HN this way. Does anyone?
I skim HN, when I like something, I dive in & read it carefully and sometimes even implement it. The rest is just chewing gum; nice maybe but not serious.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're right here. I'm forgetting about "entertainment". This will never replace my visits to HN because it's not efficient. Unless it uses neurolink to beam the information into my mind, that's always going to be the case. It fails in that way. However, let's consider a podcast. You get 5 people that are entertaining, knowledgeable about technology, well spoken, and have differing opinions, and get them to s…
This isn't what I had in mind, but now that you've suggested it I would absolutely listen to this. In fact, I'm convinced having read it that this is where we're going good or bad (I can see a lot of YouTube gurus suggesting this as the new get-rich-quick scheme for "creators"). A high quality version of this would absolutely work though if that can be achieved. I was thinking more in terms of the way you can get mor…
> the new get-rich-quick scheme for "creators"
I wonder if the person executing the scheme would still be referred to as a "creator" in this case: they're creating a creator, and it's not so useful to have the same label for multiple layers (factory factories all the way down?). I could see possibly "engineer" (taken from "prompt engineer") or other technical terms being used instead of art terms.
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#160Brilliant 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 fr…
> Last.fm came out 20 years ago (proving you don't even need AI for amazing recommender systems)
What makes that recommender system not AI? Wikipedia say it uses "collaborative filtering" which Gemini says is a form of AI. AI started nearly 70 years ago.