Hey folks 👋
I got tired of endlessly scrolling Hacker News during my commute — I love the discussions, but never have enough time (or attention) to read everything.
So I built something small but useful: Tera.fm
👉 https://www.tera.fm
It fetches the latest top stories from places like Hacker News, summarizes them using AI, extracts key viewpoints from the comment section, and reads everything aloud in a natural voice.
Basically:
Hacker News → summarized → spoken like a radio station.
Why I built it
I take a lot of crowded trains and often cook while listening to podcasts. I always wished there was a simple “internet radio” that reads technical news to me without needing to scroll or tap.
No login. No tracking. No feeds to manage.
Just hit play and listen — while commuting, cooking, or at the gym.
What’s inside right now
- HN Top
- HN New
- HN Ask
- HN Show
What’s coming next
- Reddit (World News, Science, TIL)
- Product Hunt
- Dev.to trending
- GitHub Trending
- Custom channels
Stack
- Next.js + Vercel
- OpenAI Realtime TTS (Alloy voice)
- Hacker News API
- Clean, minimal UI
Feedback welcome 🙏
This is still early. Would love thoughts on:
- the voice quality
- summaries
- channel ideas
- UX improvements
If you listen to technical content or browse HN regularly, I’d love your feedback.
Thanks for reading!
Digiwares
Top comments (9)
This is a smart idea, tech news as an audio signal you can tune into. Looking forward to seeing how it evolves with more sources. Especially hacking related.
thank you so much....I needed something like this as I've no time to read HN (my fav website) and so thought of making this radio thing...I'm glad you liked it!
Recommended!
great idea mate. this could be really useful!! personally i listen to podcasts like talk python to me. but with your idea i could listen to a hell lot more
mate i just looked at it. this is dope as fuck. and really useful! could you add other custom voices to choose from? if its too much work then thats okay its just the fact that i kinda zone out while listening with this voice
have implemented few more voice to choose from...give it a try and let me have your feedback!
i cant actually believe you edited it so fast!!! this is perfect!!
this was a minor code change, not much needed to do...just had to add few more voices.
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