When explanations get posted directly in HN comments, I imagine someone somewhere in the world is able to learn in spite of their Internet restrictions/firewalls

People will also post their own interpretations in response to comments, and quickly find out they missed something.

… But if you try to automate it, like include a summary under every HN post, you encourage laziness too much and are pre-chewing too heavily. Some balance here.

[on topic]

(OK I’m done making excuses, time to read the article… thanks for the encouragement!)

I thought this was not explained in the readme directly but in fact I missed it. I wasn’t going to read Microsoft entire changelog! But it was substantive, thanks to sibling commenter:

“2025-09-05: VibeVoice is an open-source research framework intended to advance collaboration in the speech synthesis community. After release, we discovered instances where the tool was used in ways inconsistent with the stated intent. Since responsible use of AI is one of Microsoft’s guiding principles, we have removed the VibeVoice-TTS code from this repository.”

https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice/commit/e73d1e17c3754f...

which is microsoft for "we removed two dead links". AI innovation knows no limits!

Way early on (spring 2023) people tried to stop it, but no luck.