HN.watch - Hacker News front page with video explainers
Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
HN.watch mirrors the Hacker News front page and attaches a short video explainer to every story. Instead of opening dozens of tabs, you can click any title and instantly watch a concise summary, then jump to the original article or the HN discussion. It syncs continuously with news.ycombinator.com, works without cookies or tracking scripts, and is ideal for catching up on tech news during a commute or coffee break.
The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story. Click a title to watch.
- fishtoaster
Because we all contain multitudes, I can simultaneously accept that:
1. I hate everything about this because I vastly prefer text over video for the same content, especially AI generated video
2. There are a lot of people for whom video is their preferred medium and so this will be valuable to them.
It's a technically cool project and your cost-per-video is impressively low. Best of luck!
- indigodaddy
This is super cool.
Not affiliated but trymyrepo.com is very neat as well. Seems similar space.
Also I had Muse agent create a skill that can do videos. Worked pretty well. Things are getting wild.
Lastly, this might fun to those who like this space: (my thing)
- scosman
These AI explainers are taking over. I tried getting this working back in May. The models were okay but not quite there and it was a ton of effort. Opus 5.5 seems like the tipping point.
I made an OSS framework for these for when you want to go beyond one-shoting it: https://github.com/scosman/videowright
- Voiceovers: aligns animations to the voiceover, can generate voiceover with elevenlabs, or will transcribe and timestamp a real voiceover
- can reorder scenes both in code, and using ffmpeg for audio.
- interactive controls during authoring, can ask for micro edits or re-builds
- MP4 export/encoder
- Generates a video from a prompt (obvs)
- dverlaeckt80
This is actually quite impressive from an engineer viewpoint. I just have the feeling that the videos quickly become very monotonous and rather boring due to the monotonous AI voices. If somehow you could bring dynamic variation in these videos that would be fantastic.
- harvey9
Please, nobody click on the link to this hn item within hn.watch as it would be even more dangerous than typing 'google' into Google