Show HN: Blog Reader – Listen to blogs that you don't have time to read
blogreader.com.au
blogreader.com.au
I noticed that I listened to a lot of podcasts when commuting, so I made this website to convert interesting blog posts into a podcast. The tech component is mostly glue: the trafilatura scraper + AWS Polly TTS.
Given I find this site pretty useful, I figured that some HN readers would enjoy it as well. Here are some of my favourite articles from the past ~18 months with the accompanying audio:
Doing Business In Japan
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan...
https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/e096c7623b305cb129c4dd...
A Deep Dive into K-pop
https://dormin.org/2020/09/06/a-deep-dive-into-k-pop/
https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/741f2612536071e911f9a9...
Peer review: Troubled from the start
https://www.nature.com/news/peer-review-troubled-from-the-st...
https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/4712ffd8d05dd1b51df2b7...
The Real Reason Your City Has No Money
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real- reason-your-city-has-no-money
https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/1f92611929679af2763b34...
A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics
https://medium.com/software-safety/a-software-engineers-guid...
https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/0340fb5628b642f8dd4959...
Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping's China
https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in
https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/f749f66d4be0b6899bf25a...
Markets, discrimination, and "lowering the bar"
https://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/
https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/2571f6e06b9c358d5a9ce3...
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/9008b40fde501cf4ea3c39...
Why Deep Learning Works Even Though It Shouldn’t
https://moultano.wordpress.com/2020/10/18/why-deep-learning-...
https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/dd360c22e33717098e7a2c...