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Show HN: FeedPod – Convert your RSS feeds to personalized podcasts

thatloststudent — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:28:40 +0000

Hi HN, I've been working on this project for a few months because I often get overwhelmed with the deluge of information online, especially the news.

The idea is to get caught up with the news quickly and get a curated podcast with only the articles that you want to listen to. This is done by using NVIDIA's LLMs with DeepInfra for TTS to create podcasts with the news articles that you select with an RSS feed reader.

Right now, all paid plans have a 14-day trial, and there's a free tier too that lets you listen to one podcast episode everyday.

Would love feedback on the UI/UX, specifically the flow of selecting URLs and making a podcast, any features that you would want to have in such a product, and any that might be missing here.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563053

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New comment by thatloststudent in "AI tools I wish existed"

thatloststudent — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:41:24 +0000

> A nano banana photo-editing app where I don’t have to write a prompt. Just give me hundreds of templates from trying out different haircuts to seeing what you and your partner’s kid would look like to making me look like The Rock. A photo editing super-app.

Quite a few of these "ideas" make me think that the human behind it wants to maximize laziness. Glazing over what Hemingway kinda sorta would have thought about something fits into this pretty well.

New comment by thatloststudent in "Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard"

thatloststudent — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:06:10 +0000

Not really, this is more of an internet meme [1].

[1] - https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pm-modi-responds-to-it...

New comment by thatloststudent in "Everyone knows all the apps on your phone"

thatloststudent — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 17:13:46 +0000

I want to expand on this more as someone more familiar with Bangalore/Bengaluru.

Almost like clockwork, Blume Ventures releases a report every year about the state of the Indian startup ecosystem that year, and since Bengaluru startups are almost all concentrated around Koramangala or HSR layout (these are places inside Bengaluru with their own PIN/address codes), you'll find a lot of people talking about that online.

New comment by thatloststudent in "Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels"

thatloststudent — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:33:08 +0000

Is it that hard to find? This[1] took me one search on YouTube. I agree that India is filthy, but it's not hard to find such videos for China either.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hEJKOD1ux14

New comment by thatloststudent in "Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels"

thatloststudent — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:27:58 +0000

"The Ugly Indian" [1] (a ragtag group of anonymous citizens) usually does that in India. In reality, though, these kinds of issues are only really seen as a minor inconvenience at most. Anecdotally, most middle-class people in here frown upon chewing tobacco, so I assume the government thinks that as long as they keep it relatively clean, nobody would think of dirtying it with their paan stains.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1VA5jqmRo

New comment by thatloststudent in "Why don't you move abroad?"

thatloststudent — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:50:38 +0000

I'm Indian. We also learned that Carbon dating was a thing somewhere between Middle School and High School. I also believe that the reference to isotopes was hyperbolic and that he actually wanted to talk about the fact that we teach the basics of Nuclear fission, fusion and radioactive decay in high school. [1]

In hindsight, it's funny that we use radioactive decay as one of the filters for an entrance exam for University. [2]

1 - https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/leph205.pdf

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Entrance_Examination

New comment by thatloststudent in "Why don't you move abroad?"

thatloststudent — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 09:37:23 +0000

I interpreted it as knowing the basics of nuclear physics in order to do a CS Bachelor's degree, which is what the entrance exam for these colleges ask.

New comment by thatloststudent in "NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch"

thatloststudent — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:53:16 +0000

From what I see running the test on my phone, there's an option to tunnel DNS through Rethink here, which you can change to the VPN's DNS. Everything else is tunneled by default through wireguard. Maybe there's a configuration issue on your end?

New comment by thatloststudent in "NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch"

thatloststudent — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:38:02 +0000

Not really on topic, but is there any plan on integrating tailscale with it? There's a userspace mode for tailscale that exposes a socks proxy, but you currently have to spawn that with Termux or another terminal, then forward your traffic on Rethink.

New comment by thatloststudent in "NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch"

thatloststudent — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:27:04 +0000

I didn't intend for this to be propaganda, I don't even use it anymore since I'm on grapheneOS now. But I have tried all three. I need to use a VPN in split mode for certain apps, and since using Tor with apps wasn't part of my threat model, I ended up using RethinkDNS (the app only). I don't necessarily like their upstream DNS servers, but considering that I can use my own server (and do), I don't consider that to be an issue.

New comment by thatloststudent in "NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch"

thatloststudent — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:30:48 +0000

There's RethinkDNS [1](not affiliated to them, just like their software). Sometimes it gets killed on my phone, but otherwise it's a great replacement, adds some much-needed features like proxies and wireguard VPNs on top of a DNS and app level control.

[1] - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/

New comment by thatloststudent in "NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch"

thatloststudent — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:29:09 +0000

There's no need to dream about it, it already exists: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/

I used to use it when I wasn't on grapheneOS and needed to block internet access.

New comment by thatloststudent in "MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader"

thatloststudent — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:54:22 +0000

Newpipe takes care of this pretty well. You can select what it calls "Channel groups", which would be a feed of a subset of your subscriptions.

New comment by thatloststudent in "YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable"

thatloststudent — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:40:06 +0000

I tried the same route, but got the logs correctly. It gave me a HTTP 410 error. I wouldn't be surprised at all if VLC's youtube plugin is just too old and there's a better one somewhere else. But in the meanwhile, mpv's plugin works (if you're using yt-dlp and not youtube-dl, that is)

New comment by thatloststudent in "Radio Garden"

thatloststudent — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:34:32 +0000

You should be able to do this with radio-browser.info [1]. Specifically, look at the documentation that lists all stations.

[1] - https://de1.api.radio-browser.info/#General

New comment by thatloststudent in "Telegram Stars: Pay for Digital Goods and More"

thatloststudent — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 04:35:19 +0000

I like how flexible matrix bots are but there are some problems that I'm not able to easily solve, like finding out when a new person joins a matrix room because the m.join event is used for user info changes as well as joins.

Edit: I found this [1] table that hopefully simplifies things, I'll see if that works out.

[1]: https://spec.matrix.org/v1.8/client-server-api/#mroommember

New comment by thatloststudent in "Stop Using Discord"

thatloststudent — Fri, 31 May 2024 12:58:38 +0000

More importantly, it is indexable by search engines (if you use view.matrix.org). But it's not as simple to use as discord quite yet. I say this as a self-hosted matrix user, but it's not quite as simple to call someone else (until element call becomes a thing) or use custom emojis, to show a few problems.

New comment by thatloststudent in "Debloat non-rooted Android devices"

thatloststudent — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 08:39:05 +0000

This [1] is the list that UAD uses.

[1] - https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-an...

New comment by thatloststudent in "New Beeper Android app – Open beta test"

thatloststudent — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 03:39:54 +0000

Not the OP, but the beeper client looks better and has native GIF support, among other niceties that more "normal" users would prefer over other clients.