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

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Post by progmetaldev »

mylastattempt wrote: post #118
progmetaldev wrote: post #28

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When it comes to online reading, there are quite a few things that cause me fatigue that I don't feel I used to experience. Advertisements have been there for a long time, but often these are woven into the content, either as literal text placed in the article, or as visual ads that you need to scroll through to continue reading the article. Relying on different JavaScript and CSS techniques to "enhance" the user exp…

Perhaps a small help for you might be "reader mode" or "focus mode" or whatever your browser of choice calls it. It's usually embedded in the url bar (probably a hotkey for it), and gives you only the text. A major step forward in not having to subconsciously ingest and then choose to ignore all the ads, related links, etc.

Thank you, I'm not sure why I always seem to forget that feature. Although I don't like the Google lock-in, on certain sites I can also visit the AMP version of the page, and have fewer ads while also getting the images.

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

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Post by gigatexal »

I would like this except for it to be a daily podcast of the unique set of links and things that made it to the front page with more than 5 comments ordered by points and then comments and then have that read out to me with a summary of the comments. Now that. That would be amazing.

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

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Post by bangaroo »

i think this is cool, i'm happy you did it... i really listen to podcasts for the hosts, though. i think the banter and the personality and the perspective are things that i really enjoy. getting to know people through what they choose to talk about or how they frame things is part of the whole charm.

if i want a fast rundown of HN, i'll read HN. you did make me kind of crave a 15 minute weekdaily "morning news" style podcast with some tech journalists that runs down the most talked about HN posts, though.

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

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Post by etewiah »

brandonchi wrote: post #149
etewiah wrote: post #141

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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.

Great to hear - thanks. I will add several more over the coming days.

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

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Post by pow_ext »

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…

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

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pow_ext wrote: post #167
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…

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

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Post by supafastcoder »

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.

A daily update on the best posts of the last 24 hours would be amazing: https://news.ycombinator.com/best
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