Hacker News Recap
Wondercraft.aiA podcast that recaps some of the top posts on Hacker News every day. This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by Wondercraft.ai. Create your own news rundown podcast at app.wondercraft.ai
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 613 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | NewsDaily News | |||
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 27, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
Original post: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064571&... more
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 26, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
Original post: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057488&utm_s... more
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 25, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
Original post: news.ycombinator.com/it... more
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 24, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
Original post: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032539&utm_sou... more
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- Great example of AI in action
Kudos to Wondercraft AI for building and maintaining this podcast as an example of what their AI tech can do. I really admire the prompting strategy used to break down each topic, extract not only the core arguments but also include counter points and other tangential topics.
The text to speech voice quality is impressive!
I also appreciate their commitment to continue improving all aspects of the already high quality podcast.
Congratulations on the one year anniversary!
Overall, great work... more
Apple Podcasts5MoJo JoJo HoBo
United States2 years ago - Great example of AI in action
Kudos to Wondercraft AI for building and maintaining this podcast as an example of what their AI tech can do. I really admire the prompting strategy used to break down each topic, extract not only the core arguments but also include counter points and other tangential topics.
The text to speech voice quality is impressive!
Only very minor things to note are some odd pronunciations (e.g. Kubernetes, acronyms, number-letter hybrids “1.58b”) and unnatural pauses which could be from chunking the t... more
Apple Podcasts5MoJo JoJo HoBoUnited States2 years ago - Perfect Summaries
This is what I’ve always wanted. The summaries get straight to the point, first summarizing the news, and then providing a topic wise summaries of the comments, which is really hard to do. I picked this over a human hosted podcast because this does not have the personal commentary of the hosts. AI done right. The voice narrative is very smooth and no glitches so far. Easy to follow. This is will be my morning routine from now on.
Apple Podcasts5dindradUnited States2 years ago - Wonderful Podcast. Wishing Sunday Episodes.
Wonderful tech news podcast I listen to every day!
I just wish it could have a new episode on Sunday as well.
Apple Podcasts5QwertpoiuyyvcfjneUnited States2 years ago - Decent discussion summary, but the BG music is awful
It would be nice to put this on to catch up with recent discussions while doing chores, etc., but the background music played throughout is absolutely awful and makes it intolerable to listen to the podcast at all.
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Denmark2 years ago
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