Hacker News Recap

Hacker News Recap is a daily podcast that summarizes the top ten posts from Hacker News into a roughly 15-minute audio episode. Rather than being produced by a team of human hosts, both the script and the narration are generated using AI through Wondercraft.ai's podcast production platform, making the show fully automated from source material to finished audio. The project is explicitly independent from Hacker News and Y Combinator, existing as a third-party companion to the site rather than an official product. Since launching in 2023, the podcast has released over 800 episodes, publishing new recaps daily so listeners can follow ongoing tech, startup, and programming discussions without reading through the site's articles and comment threads themselves. Episode titles are typically drawn from a notable submission of the day, giving a quick sense of what dominated discussion before listening. It is distributed across the usual podcast channels, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and a standard RSS feed, so it fits into an existing podcast listening habit rather than requiring a dedicated app. The tool is best suited to developers and tech-industry listeners who want a passive way to stay current with Hacker News rather than active readers who prefer browsing the site and comment sections directly.