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

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Post by yunusabd »

Terretta wrote: post #18
yunusabd wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's a real useful resource. Thanks!

I was looking into using the algolia API to get the top 10 posts of the last day, but those won't be unique over the span of several days.

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

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Post by a13n »

andai wrote: post #15

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 fr…

agreed on energy for reading. do you think it’s that we’re getting older or that the friction associated with consuming information is just getting lower and lower over time?

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

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Post by yunusabd »

pugio wrote: post #16

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.)

Same boat re: audio speed. I actually speed up the voice in the backend by 1.16x . Above that I was getting too many artifacts in the audio. The nice thing about doing it at that point is that I can handle the music and the voice separately, i.e. the speed of the music stays unchanged.

Speeding it up in the player will also speed up the music, which is not very zen. But I guess I'll just add it to the player and let people decide how fast they want to go.

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

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Post by andai »

a13n wrote: post #22
andai wrote: post #15

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 fr…

agreed on energy for reading. do you think it’s that we’re getting older or that the friction associated with consuming information is just getting lower and lower over time?

So my energy levels have declined noticeably from age 20 to 30. I thought it was mostly my own chronic health issues causing accelerated aging, but many of my friends are making similar complaints.

I did notice far before this point (e.g. age 10 to 20) that my patience for reading had gone down significantly. If I had to guess I'd say that in my case it's due to an underlying anxiety that started in early teens and never left me. Drowning it out seems to require something more stimulating than reading (on paper).

(Perhaps meditation or therapy (shadow integration?) would help here. I've certainly had glimpses of inner peace during times when I was meditating regularly. One insight from this time: "holy crap, I always thought I needed to struggle harder, but it turns out I just needed to learn how to relax...")

I can get through audiobooks but I can only consume them while traveling or doing chores. If I'm sitting down, the restlessness is too high and I can't concentrate on the book.

I also have ADHD and heard similar things from others with ADHD, so I'm not sure to what degree this translates to others.

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

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Post by vulcan01 »

yunusabd wrote: post #5
seungwoolee518 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. You're right. My morning routine is Checking HN with Coffee. So with your service I can minimize some time to click around and figure out what the root cause is.

I was actually listening to it while making breakfast as well, so the idea of an extended morning briefing resonates with me. I'll look into it, thanks for the follow-up!

If you do this, it might be interesting to publish this as a podcast. Hourly is too frequent for a podcast, but daily would be pretty good.

(Podcasts are just RSS feeds.)

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

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Post by yunusabd »

pugio wrote: post #16

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.)

I added a basic speed setting, hope 3x is enough ;)

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

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Post by progmetaldev »

a13n wrote: post #22
andai wrote: post #15

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 fr…

agreed on energy for reading. do you think it’s that we’re getting older or that the friction associated with consuming information is just getting lower and lower over time?

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 experience often cause me issues when I'm just trying to focus on reading. Those include overriding scrollbars, dynamic loading of content when the text is small enough to have been included in the page, and displaying some kind of alternative action when highlighting text. I'll often highlight text to keep track of where I'm reading, and some sites will pop up a dialog with share actions, or the ability to add annotations, etc. This is distracting and makes it more difficult to follow along with a longer article.

I'm 45, and got my start on BBS pre-internet, but I feel like if I find an article without the distractions I mentioned above, I actually have more energy to complete an article than I did in my 20's and 30's. Having access to the article without distractions helps me to focus, and when I focus, I tend to consume more content than I normally would. Most likely one of the reasons we're drawn to HN.

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

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Post by yunusabd »

olup wrote: post #24

I did https://radio-hn.pages.dev/ last year in the same idea, just once per day. Posted it somewhere here at the time.

Interesting, I actually did a search before submitting mine, but I narrowed it down to the last year only. Yours being 2y/o didn't show up. You were ahead of your time!

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

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Post by andai »

progmetaldev wrote: post #28
a13n wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

agreed on energy for reading. do you think it’s that we’re getting older or that the friction associated with consuming information is just getting lower and lower over time?

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…

You've just made me realize why I usually avoid clicking the actual article link on HN. It's usually a very unpleasant experience, unless it's clear that it's a smaller website.
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