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Show HN: Converts any text into a podcast featuring customizable speakers

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 2:59pm

I built Unstruct.AI to transform how we consume content. The system converts any text into an interactive podcast featuring customizable speakers - yes, you can literally 'cast' recognizable personalities in your content.

Example: I transformed OpenAI's GPT-4o image generation blog post into a 4-minute conversation starring Sam Altman, Gabriel Goh, and Prafulla Dhariwal discussing the technology, with relevant visuals from the original post mapped to each segment.

The process takes seconds:

1. Upload content and images 2. AI generates the conversation 3. Map visuals to segments 4. Customize your 'cast' 5. Share or embed

Demo link in comments. Would love feedback on potential use cases and how you might use this technology.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43765186

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Reading Math Papers

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 2:56pm
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Tag along rights seem essential for for early employees?

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 2:08pm

With the IPO markets dwindling and acquisitions and secondary markets growing as new avenues for liquidity and exits, I’m curious why this topic isn’t brought up more frankly.

I have witnessed many cases of startup founders selling equity as secondaries, selling during tender offers, etc but NOT extending these opportunities to early employees.

I have even seen founders take out lines of credit from big banks, with their equity as collateral.

Is it foolish to be an early employee or advisor of a startup and not insist on having tag along rights? Given that the likelihood of an IPO is decreasing with time, and founders are enriching themselves via secondary markets.

Early employees could have a lot of theoretical stock, but real opportunities for liquidity seem to be decreasing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764778

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Show HN: HN Summary – AI-generated summaries of Hacker News comments

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 2:04pm

Over the Easter weekend, I hacked together a little side project to solve a personal pain point: reading through massive Hacker News threads.

I love HN and read it daily, but sometimes the most interesting posts have hundreds of comments. While the discussions are often gold, it’s hard to find the time (or the eye-ache/stamina) to read them all.

So I built HN Summary. I used Cursor (using Gemini 2.5/Sonnet 3.5) for most of the work, and was able to get things going quite quickly (ps. I'm not a professional software developer but learnt how to code to an okay level).

The tool that gives you readable, nuanced summaries of the top HN stories and their comment threads. The app refreshes twice a day with summaries of the top 10 stories, and you can also request custom summaries of any HN thread (you get 12 free credits to start).

The app is very much experimental, and some things may break, but I'd love feedback from the HN community. Let me know what you think, what you'd change, or if you've come across anything like it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764749

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Aimi Sync

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 2:03pm

Article URL: https://aimi.fm/sync

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764738

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