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Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
1•Willingham•5m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•6m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•11m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
1•mooreds•11m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

1•pinkmuffinere•14m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•18m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•20m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•20m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•21m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
3•archb•23m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•23m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•29m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
3•dragandj•31m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•31m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•33m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•34m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•34m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•37m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•37m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•38m ago•1 comments

Interactive Unboxing of J Dilla's Donuts

https://donuts20.vercel.app
1•sngahane•39m ago•0 comments

OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans to track Super Bowl live

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/onecourt-tactile-device-super-bowl-blind-low-vision-fans/
1•gaws•41m ago•0 comments

Rudolf Vrba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba
1•mooreds•41m ago•0 comments

Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747
1•paulpauper•42m ago•0 comments

Wellness Hotels Discovery Application

https://aurio.place/
1•cherrylinedev•43m ago•1 comments

NASA delays moon rocket launch by a month after fuel leaks during test

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/03/nasa-delays-moon-rocket-launch-month-fuel-leaks-a...
2•mooreds•43m ago•0 comments
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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.