HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audio conversation

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Hi HN, here's something fun to play with.It takes any HN thread and turns it into an audio conversation so you can listen to the thread while doing other things.I've seen many previous attempts to turn HN threads into podcasts, but they all shared a common issue IMO: trying to reduce the very rich back-and-forth into a single-thread single-reader boring podcast. Instead, I wanted to hear the actual debate from the actual thread!So I asked Claude 3.7 to build this for me as a browser-only app. It just needs a thread URL and an Elevenlabs API key (this all remains in your browser, you can check the source code, it's only 3 files, there is no server storage of anything).To make the resulting au

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Website: onetake-ai.github.io/hackernews-watercooler