On: HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the Ne...

[jcun4128]

I made this [1] 6 years ago reads HN top 10 articles, top comment every morning... this thing has been sitting on my shelf since then playing everyday lol. Which is amazing because it's a janky breadboard that I never put on a solderable board.

Anyway regarding summary... I looked at rapid api before they have a sumarizer on there, can plug it into polly. It seemed decent but I wanted my own summary based on my own reading process... but never got around to it.

[1] https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/python_aws_polly_hacker_ne...

[bredren → jcun4128]

Do you use this each morning? What’s it like to do that? What other features or changes have you considered for this project but not added?

[jcun4128 → bredren]

It's just running on a CRON job 8 AM... it's like an alarm.

The droning voice of AWS Polly is sure to wake anyone up.

A feature I thought about is putting the generated files elsewhere like cloud where you can play them to your wireless earbuds.