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Show HN: An Audible alternative for classic audiobooks

https://www.soundreads.io/
1•jspizziri•9h 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/

AmigaOS 3.3 will be released in 2026

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-10-00103-EN.html
1•doener•38s ago•0 comments

The hottest term in AI is completely made up

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/21/nvidia-ai-factories/
1•reaperducer•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PageIndex Chat – Human-Like Long Document AI Analyst

https://pageindex.ai/blog/pageindex-chat
1•mingtianzhang•2m ago•1 comments

Using Async Functions in Celery with Django Connection Pooling

https://mrdonbrown.blogspot.com/2025/10/using-async-functions-in-celery-with.html
1•ipeev•4m ago•0 comments

Thinking Sparks: Emergent Attention Heads in Reasoning Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25758
1•diwank•9m ago•0 comments

Modern AI on Vintage Hardware: Llama 2 Runs on Windows 98

https://hackaday.com/2025/01/13/modern-ai-on-vintage-hardware-llama-2-runs-on-windows-98/
1•JumpCrisscross•11m ago•1 comments

Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs with Robots

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots...
1•bookofjoe•21m ago•2 comments

Show HN: ProfiTree, Tax Optimization Tool for DIY Investors

https://www.profitree-tax.com/
1•shahakshat609•22m ago•0 comments

Large Language Models Inference Engines Based on Spiking Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00133
2•PaulHoule•22m ago•0 comments

Effects of Swallowable Intragastric Balloon on Weight Loss, Metabolic Syndrome (2017)

https://www.gavinpublishers.com/article/view/effect-of-a-new-swallowableintragastric-balloon-elip...
1•nateb2022•23m ago•0 comments

Surfacing LLM Biases Through Graffiti

https://nullpxl.com/post/surfacing-llm-biases-through-graffiti/
2•nullpxl•24m ago•0 comments

Dangerous and invisible worm found in Visual Studio Code extensions

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Dangerous-and-invisible-worm-found-in-Visual-Studio-Code-extensions-...
2•croes•25m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Codex / Claude Code vs. Cursor?

2•mholubowski•26m ago•0 comments

Daniel J. Bernstein updated cdb (Constant database) to go beyond 4GB

https://cdb.cr.yp.to/
4•kreco•26m ago•0 comments

Did people in the 90s worry about the efficiency of the internet

2•burgiee•27m ago•1 comments

GitHub Copilot's "Free Plan Limit" Bug: A Year-Long Oversight?

https://danielraffel.me/2025/10/22/github-copilots-free-plan-limit-bug-a-year-long-oversight/
1•atupem•28m ago•0 comments

DHS Asks OpenAI to Unmask User Behind ChatGPT Prompts, Possibly First Such Case

https://gizmodo.com/dhs-asks-openai-to-unmask-user-behind-chatgpt-prompts-possibly-the-first-such...
2•mrtesthah•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Streaky – GitHub Streak Monitor with Distributed Cron Processing

https://github.com/0xReLogic/Streaky
1•0xrelogic•31m ago•0 comments

Fork Buckets Like You Fork Code

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/fork-buckets-like-code/
1•raoufchebri•31m ago•0 comments

A ritual and the toxic effects of ranking

https://mailchi.mp/f6f9b751ce8c/resilience-postcard-lonely-1669813
1•pcfwik•35m ago•0 comments

Pathom 3 – a Clojure library modelling information systems as attribute graphs

https://pathom3.wsscode.com/
1•Tevo•37m ago•0 comments

Rematch Accelerated by Network Next

https://mas-bandwidth.com/rematch-accelerated-by-network-next/
2•gafferongames•41m ago•0 comments

China Accuses US of Cyberattack on National Time Center

https://www.securityweek.com/china-accuses-us-of-cyberattack-on-national-time-center/
1•Bender•47m ago•2 comments

When yesterday's code becomes today's threat

https://www.scworld.com/perspective/when-yesterdays-code-becomes-todays-threat
1•Bender•48m ago•0 comments

Can you make the slippery road sign in real life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eL_r7NbAvA
1•lifeisstillgood•51m ago•0 comments

Should We Look on New Technologies with Awe and Dread?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/should-we-look-on-new-technologies-with-awe-and-...
1•fortran77•51m ago•2 comments

John Titor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
2•cryptoz•51m ago•0 comments

Fake home invasion vid lands woman in real trouble

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/woman_pranks_husband_ai_intruder/
2•Bender•51m ago•1 comments

M5 iPad Pro: An AI and Gaming Upgrade for AI and Games That Aren't There Yet

https://www.macstories.net/stories/m5-ipad-pro-review/
1•walterbell•52m ago•0 comments

My computing prayer

https://ryansepassi.com/notes/computing-prayer
2•prngl•52m ago•0 comments