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This morning I was thinking wouldn't it be great if we had a yay query / diggnation style audio or video podcast breaking down the top stories on hackernews weekly or daily. Has this ever been done successfully? Would y-combiner get mad? If your interested in making a pilot episode, see where it goes let me know. talktr@gmail.com twitter@thomasreggi or cmt with your info.

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I ran the left fold (http://foldl.org) for several months; it focused on the top technical stories from places like here. It was popular (a few thousand readers each week), but I didn't have time to continue it, and to be honest, the material gets very repetitive when you look at it hard each week to hand-pick articles.

You would need a large group of different skilled people to be able to do it successfully in a way that good points about the stories arise in the show, given the broad range of different kinds of topics that get submitted to HN.

But for that you already have the comments on HN, so it would have to add something more.

Maybe teaching something, or adding new comments from people that did not comment the story but are able to make some good points...

It would be nice if well thought...

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