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You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
1•mltvc•2m ago•0 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•3m ago•0 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•3m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
1•SchwKatze•3m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•4m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
1•guerrilla•5m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator Founder Organizes 'March for Billionaires'

https://mlq.ai/news/ai-startup-founder-organizes-march-for-billionaires-protest-against-californi...
1•hidden80•6m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Need feedback on the idea I'm working on

1•Yogender78•6m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Addresses Security Risks

https://thebiggish.com/news/openclaw-s-security-flaws-expose-enterprise-risk-22-of-deployments-un...
1•vedantnair•7m ago•0 comments

Apple finalizes Gemini / Siri deal

https://www.engadget.com/ai/apple-reportedly-plans-to-reveal-its-gemini-powered-siri-in-february-...
1•vedantnair•7m ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
2•vedantnair•8m ago•0 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: high-performance TRAMP back end using MsgPack-RPC

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•fanf2•9m ago•0 comments

Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

https://akiraux.vercel.app/
1•s4074433•13m ago•1 comments

"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

https://post.substack.com/p/there-must-be-something-like-the
1•rbanffy•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts?

2•amichail•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•23m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Steam Daily – A Wordle-like daily puzzle game for Steam fans

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•25m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
1•spenvo•25m ago•0 comments

Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•26m ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•27m ago•0 comments

Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-crosstalk-cells-pathogens-evade-drugs.html
2•PaulHoule•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design system generator (mood to CSS in <1 second)

https://huesly.app
1•egeuysall•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: 26/02/26 – 5 songs in a day

https://playingwith.variousbits.net/saturday
1•dmje•29m ago•0 comments

Toroidal Logit Bias – Reduce LLM hallucinations 40% with no fine-tuning

https://github.com/Paraxiom/topological-coherence
1•slye514•31m ago•1 comments

Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-failed-test-on-remote-freelance-jobs/
5•codexon•31m ago•2 comments

The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/
1•NaOH•32m ago•0 comments

Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115820462402673&w=2
2•birdculture•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: a glimpse into the future of eye tracking for multi-agent use

https://github.com/dchrty/glimpsh
1•dochrty•37m ago•0 comments

The Optima-l Situation: A deep dive into the classic humanist sans-serif

https://micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/the-optima-l-situation
2•subdomain•37m ago•1 comments

Barn Owls Know When to Wait

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-barn-owls-know-when-to-wait/
1•fintler•37m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: An Audible alternative for classic audiobooks

https://www.soundreads.io/
2•jspizziri•3mo ago
I spent the last 1yr+ building an audiobook streaming service that focuses on timeless classic works in the public domain.

One thing I'm especially proud of is the restoration I did on the "War of the Worlds" 1938 Radio broadcast. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I've made it temporarily free (no login required or anything untoward) to listen to [1] in case anyone is curious. You should compare it with the original [2] and let me know what you think. I find the actual broadcast super engaging and enjoyable.

I've done everything from building the app to the audio engineering. A lot of learning involved as my background is on the software side, not marketing, audio engineering, etc.

A lot of the initial catalog is stuff that I've sourced from Librivox [3] (legends), but I've done a lot of curation, clean up, editing, mastering, and packaging to make it more enjoyable. There's also some original audiobooks too, and more should be landing each month (they're expensive and time consuming to produce with real humans and AI isn't quite there yet IMHO).

It's at a point now where I think it's ready enough to release it to the public.

I'd love any constructive feedback (audio quality, UX, concept, etc) that anyone would be willing to provide. Finally, some of the things that are unique:

1) Subscribers vote on what content we produce next (new content monthly is the plan). 2) 3 referrals = a free subscription 3) A "lifetime" option (possibly naive, but it's what I want as a consumer)

Anyways, if you even read to this point I appreciate it!

[1] https://app.soundreads.io/discover/item/war-of-the-worlds [2] https://archive.org/details/WarOfTheWorlds1938RadioBroadcast... [3] https://librivox.org/

Comments

hasbot•3mo ago
Congrats on the release! How large is the current library and at what rate do you expect to add new books? What books are subscribers voting on?
jspizziri•3mo ago
Thank you, and thanks for the comment!

Currently I have around 20 books with plans on releasing 1 a month (hopefully more). Have several in production right now and several in the bag ready to release over the first several months.

I literally just went live with some podcast adverts a week ago, so I only have 2 subscribers thus far :) so not much in the way of voting. It’s also limited to a preselected set of books (https://www.soundreads.io/voting).

If you’re interested in giving me any feedback on the selection, quality and app, I’d be happy to give you a 6mo trial (I can figure out a way of doing it that doesn’t require a CC or anything).

Thanks again for the comment.