Built for ElevenHacks · with v0
Hacker News,
now with a voice.
HN++ is a calm, glassmorphic redesign of Hacker News with AI-narrated stories, daily highlights, and a podcast feed. Same community. Same firehose. Now you can listen on your commute.
Designed for web · best on desktop for now
BUILT WITH
Firecrawl
Gemini
v0
ElevenLabs
YHN API
FirecrawlGeminiCloudflare
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HN++
Top
New
Best
Top Stories
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Show HN: I built a glassmorphic Hacker News reader with AI narration
hn-plus-plus.vercel.app
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The unreasonable effectiveness of small models in production
arxiv.org
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A retrospective on five years of running a side project to $1M ARR
stripe.com/blog
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Why we rewrote our build system in Rust (and you probably shouldn't)
github.io
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HN++ Pod
VALLEY'S HOTTEST TALKS, DAILY
Get the gist, skip the scroll
AI AUDIO SUMMARY PER STORY
HN++ Bot
JUST ASK. NO SEARCHING.
Same firehose. New senses.
HN++ keeps everything you love about Hacker News — the rankings, the threads, the discoveries — and adds a calmer surface plus a few thoughtful AI features that respect your time.
01 / VOICE
Listen — TL;DR audio
Tap the play icon on any story. Under two minutes, ElevenLabs reads you a tight TL;DR — what the article says, plus what the comments crowd is feeling.
02 / DIGEST
Smart article scraping
Firecrawl reads the linked page, Gemini writes the script, ElevenLabs voices it. You get the substance — not the SEO filler, not the comment scrollback.
03 / PODCAST
HN++ Pod
A daily ~5 min multi-voice show — top stories, community takes, chapter markers. Auto-baked every day, served from Cloudflare R2. Drops at 6:30 PM PT (1:30 AM GMT).
04 / BOT
HN++ Bot
Ask HN++ Bot anything — what's trending today, who's hiring, what the community is debating. Powered by live HN data. Live now.
05 / API
Real HN data
If it's on HN, it's here. Live from the official HN API — same stories, same scores, same comments, same ranking. Just a better surface to read them on.
06 / FEEL
Glass & warm light
A warm, late-afternoon SF palette with frosted glass surfaces. Dense enough for power users, calm enough for leisurely reading.
ElevenHacks Submission
Built for a Hackathon.
Designed to last longer.
HN++ was prototyped during ElevenHacks using v0 for the React/UI scaffold, ElevenLabs for narration, and Gemini for summarization — all on top of Y Combinator's public Hacker News API.
VOICE BY
ElevenLabs
DATA FROM
Y Combinator HN
UI SCAFFOLDED IN
Vercel v0
SCRAPED BY
Firecrawl
SUMMARIZED BY
Gemini
MEDIA STORED ON
Cloudflare R2