In Praise of the Hacker News Highlights Podcast

There is a podcast that skims Hacker News for you. It is called the Hacker News Highlights Podcast, and I love it.

The premise is simple: an AI with a genuinely pleasant voice reads through the top 10 stories and comment threads so you do not have to. Each episode is short. You can listen while washing dishes or going for a walk.

Hacker News is a firehose. The front page refreshes constantly. The comment threads are long. There is good stuff in there -- genuinely interesting links, sharp observations, people who know things -- but getting to it takes time and willpower.

The podcast solves this. Someone else does the scrolling. You get the signal.

You get the good parts of HN without the bad parts. The comment toxicity is curated out. The low-effort threads disappear. What remains is a subset of HN that is actually worth your time.