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I like this idea a lot. Archived entries would be nice as others have suggested. It would also be nice to be able to control playback speed.
Unfortunate that it adds stuff like this, which doesn't seem helpful to the listener.
"although details remain sparse due to issues extracting content from the linked resource" Unfortunate that it adds stuff like this, which doesn't seem helpful to the listener.
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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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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.)
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 ;)
Sounds about right