Productivity●Mid
News on the Go
HN-to-audio player, but Llama TTS often sounds robotic compared to ElevenLabs.
CozyNiche Gem
ynarwal__
501mo ago
Back to browse
Listen to Hacker News on the Go
by ynarwal__·May 1, 2026·1 point·0 comments
AI Analysis
●MidCozyShip It
HN reader for your ears, but TTS news readers are a solved category.
Strengths
- •Clean, minimal interface focused entirely on audio playback and navigation.
- •Uses local Llama models to generate briefings rather than generic TTS engines.
- •Deep dive feature allows expanding on specific stories during playback.
Weaknesses
- •Functionality overlaps significantly with existing podcast and TTS news apps.
- •Dependent on the quality of Llama summarization which can be inconsistent.
Category
Target Audience
Hacker News readers who prefer audio content
Similar To
Pocket Casts · Speechify
Post Description
Built this for myself — I find it hard to read HN while walking in the park but still want to keep up. Still WIP, but thought others might find it useful.
Similar Projects
AI/ML●●Solid
Audio stories on any person, place or event – on demand
Audio Wikipedia for history buffs when podcasts and audiobooks already cover this.
CozySlick
KesAtExplorer
207d ago
AI/ML●●Solid
Stagewise Reads Files Without Depending on the Model API
Model-agnostic file pipeline beats provider-specific parsing for AI agents.
Big BrainNiche Gem
glenntws
101mo ago
AI/ML●Mid
Minisft – from base model to chat model
sft.py packages a complete, small-footprint SFT flow — 4-bit quantized Llama-2-7b, LoRA adapters, OpenAssistant data, plus inference and push-to-HF helpers — so you can run an experiment with a few commands. It's a pragmatic, well-scoped starter for anyone learning parameter-efficient fine-tuning, but it doesn't claim new research and lacks deeper evaluation, recipe tuning guidance, or large-scale training validation.
Niche GemShip It
onurkanbkrc
103mo ago
AI/ML●Mid
SFT to convert a base language model into a conversational chat model
Tutorial code for SFT pipeline, but dozens of identical examples exist on GitHub.
Ship It
onurkanbkrc
103mo ago
AI/ML●Mid
Voxi.fm – Listen to articles that don't sound like a robot reading
Article-to-audio when ElevenLabs, Speechify, and Play.ht already dominate.
SlickShip It
k1m
402mo ago