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30%+ new podcasts are AI-slop

wenbin — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:16:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076168

Points: 6

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New comment by wenbin in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

wenbin — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:35:16 +0000

Alphabet is the modern day berkshire hathaway.

Alphabet’s investment holdings (eg, spacex, anthropic..) are worth in the same order of magnitude of BRK’s (~$300B)

The track record of google’s M&A is pretty good.

Except for search and cloud, many of Google’s important products were from M&A - Maps, Docs, android, doubleclick, youtube , deep mind, etc.

Show HN: Chrome extension for clean, readable SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K)

wenbin — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:27:15 +0000

Article URL: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sec-reader/jimblilpjbmhmgiooeobpabjnkadcoji

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034024

Points: 5

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Show HN: Curate links and turn them into a public website or email newsletter

wenbin — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:45:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.curatekit.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999373

Points: 3

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Show HN: Does this site use Cloudflare? Chrome extension, 100% local JavaScript

wenbin — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:12:21 +0000

Article URL: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/techflare/lbbkmioghlgfnbkciibfglcopkncdfpg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995188

Points: 4

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New comment by wenbin in "Monetization Gateway"

wenbin — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:17:15 +0000

It’s a great way for developers or ai agents to test drive an API without creating and account and getting an API key from the api provider.

This could also make abusing use / DDoS attack very costly

Show HN: RevealSafe: Buyer and seller privately submit price; reveal together

wenbin — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:44:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.revealsafe.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692376

Points: 2

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New comment by wenbin in "Pre-2022 Books"

wenbin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:42:22 +0000

If contents are generated instantly via llm and packaged as books, videos, podcasts, pull requests etc, then they don’t deserve human attention.

New comment by wenbin in "A website that lists websites to submit your website to"

wenbin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:03:24 +0000

At listennotes.com , we have to delete tons of fake podcasts submitted to our site [1]

why do people create fake podcasts? they want to get backlinks from all podcast directories

podcasts are distributed via rss feed. and spammers/"growth hackers" put tons of links in the rss feed.

and podcast hosting services (especially those allow free trials, e.g., rss.com, ) could help them one-click to distribute to a bunch of podcast apps / websites. this is like one-click large scale spamming automation

any examples? here you go -

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/search?term=UU88%20

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/search?term=%E6%B6%A8%E7%B2%89

* https://open.spotify.com/search/%E6%B6%A8%E7%B2%89/podcasts

most podcast websites / apps don't delete fake podcasts like we do at listennotes.com . so i guess the backlink hack w/ fake podcasts works. real human podcast listeners might suffer with spammy fake shows even on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

[1] https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/#growth

New comment by wenbin in "Nobody clicks share buttons"

wenbin — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:23:03 +0000

From our experience at listennotes.com over past ~10 years - people do click share buttons. For us, it's still worth the screen real estate to place share buttons.

New comment by wenbin in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

wenbin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:56:31 +0000

It’s basically bullshit jobs — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

The compensation can be high, but the psychological cost is real. Over time, that tradeoff isn’t always worth it: someone might earn more in the short term, yet pay for it with chronic stress, declining mental health, and even a shorter lifespan compared to a lower-paid role that’s more meaningful and less draining.

New comment by wenbin in "Three of our worst VC stories"

wenbin — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:44:46 +0000

This is awesome!

Show HN: CurateKit: modern del.icio.us with custom domain, team and email digest

wenbin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:39:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.curatekit.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359209

Points: 3

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New comment by wenbin in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

wenbin — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:04:38 +0000

Maybe google web search should automatically label ai-generated articles

New comment by wenbin in "AI slop is killing online communities"

wenbin — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:57:36 +0000

dataset for ~40,000 ai slop podcasts - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/listennotes/ai-generated-fak...

And Listen Notes is removing 4000 to 8000 ai slop podcasts per month - https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/#growth

New comment by wenbin in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

wenbin — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:43:20 +0000

Similar stats for podcasts - https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/#growth

New comment by wenbin in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

wenbin — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:16:17 +0000

I’m building CurateKit.com - a lightweight content curation tool.

I always have growing lists of short texts, facts, and links that I wanted to host on a standalone site rather than burying them in a notes app. The workflow is simple: a browser extension to clip links with remarks, which then feeds into a public-facing list.

I’ve also added a "Substack-lite" feature. Instead of long-form writing, it lets you send simple roundup email digests (e.g., "Top 5 links this week") to opt-in subscribers.

My personal blog (wenbin.org) is currently powered by the tool.

CurateKit.com is in private beta while I'm fine-tuning a few things now, but I’m opening up invites to the waitlist over the next few days if anyone wants to give it a try.

New comment by wenbin in "Shooting down ideas is not a skill"

wenbin — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:43:56 +0000

“pessimists sound smart , but optimists make money”

New comment by wenbin in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

wenbin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:02:56 +0000

Does this mean AWS's #1 position is safe?

Every big cloud provider has its share of UX/stability/customer support issues.

At this point, it feels less like AWS is the 'least bad' option because alternatives are even worse.

37,000 AI-generated podcasts on Kaggle

wenbin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:44:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/listennotes/ai-generated-fake-podcasts-spams

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641369

Points: 4

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