[HN Gopher] Show HN: HN Update - Hourly News Broadcast of Top HN...
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Show HN: HN Update - Hourly News Broadcast of Top HN Stories
I feel like it was inevitable, with the recent buzz around
NotebookLM. I'm just surprised that it hasn't been done yet.
Author : yunusabd
Score : 53 points
Date : 2024-10-20 07:10 UTC (15 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (hnup.date)
(TXT) w3m dump (hnup.date)
| seungwoolee518 wrote:
| Wow... Really great.
|
| Can you add some historical archive to listen n hours ago (or
| morning briefing like) summary as a feature?
| yunusabd wrote:
| 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.
| seungwoolee518 wrote:
| 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.
| yunusabd wrote:
| 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!
| tkgally wrote:
| I could easily see listening to such a summary once or twice
| a day. Considering the pace at which HN is updated, how about
| two to four somewhat longer episodes per day, with an archive
| of the past week so that people can catch up? You might also
| want to focus on certain types of stories, such as those with
| more upvotes or comments.
|
| In any case, it's a great idea, and I enjoyed listening to
| the current episode.
| Terretta wrote:
| 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.
| pan69 wrote:
| Nice. Would it be possible to add a link to the actual submission
| as it is being discussed?
| yunusabd wrote:
| Definitely! I was thinking to just show a list of all the links
| under the player, would that work for you?
| shannifin wrote:
| Was thinking the same thing. Very fun idea, nice work!
| synthoidzeta wrote:
| Really neat! How was the waveform visualization achieved?
| karencarits wrote:
| Looks like https://wavesurfer.xyz/
| yunusabd wrote:
| Yep! First time using it, seems really solid and does the
| job.
| mirrorchair01 wrote:
| This is really great stuff, love the added "news-station" type
| music! If something like this we're to be monetized would there
| be any issues regarding copyright?
| yunusabd wrote:
| 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 probably wouldn't be too happy
| about that, understandably. I have no idea how this would fare
| in court though.
| andai wrote:
| 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 front page isn't personally relevant to me,
| and there's a lot of cool stuff on the new submissions page that
| never catches on. So it would be nice if a system could learn
| what kind of stories I personally respond to, and show me (a
| summary of?) those -- even if they aren't currently trending.
|
| Last.fm came out 20 years ago (proving you don't even need AI for
| amazing recommender systems), but it seems personalizing your
| experience never really caught on. (Yeah, the YouTube algorithm
| kind of does this, but you unfortunately have no real control
| over it.)
| pugio wrote:
| 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.)
| knowaveragejoe wrote:
| 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.
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