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davidlbatey

Re:One Changelog – Changelog Aggregator for Engineers on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @08:04AM (#49271094)
I'm using this. It's a very useful summary of the changes. I noticed a bunch of Vercel related updates I'd have missed with out One Changelog.

  Hi HN — I built Distill because my read-later pile never gets read.

  It's a local MCP server for Claude Code. You save articles during the day with /mcp__distill__save <url>, then run /mcp__distill__digest to get a two-host conversational podcast
  (MP3 in ~/Downloads) from everything you queued. You pick the format — Briefing, Debate, Deep Dive, or Watercooler — and a list of "interests" that act as a narration lens (e.g.
  a cybersecurity article gets framed through an entrepreneurship angle if that's your thing).

  Stack: Node + @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, @mozilla/readability for article extraction, per-turn TTS concatenated into a single MP3 so each host gets a distinct voice.

  Limitations I'd flag up front: macOS-assumed (for the completion sound and the say fallback), English only, and no support for JS-rendered or paywalled articles — if Readability
  can't extract the body, /save fails immediately rather than silently queuing garbage.
Give it a spin.

David

Re:Thoughts on the SaaSpocalypse on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:13AM (#47626878)
A list/review of why SaaS products are under-pressure in the AI age. Written by hand (not AI) - let me know if I've missed anything?
Re:Gone Almost Phishin' on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @06:15AM (#47410698)
Thanks for sharing Matt! We built https://www.defenddomain.com to help companies protect against their site being cloned/impersonated. If you speak to Apple you should let them know :D
Re:No/reduced alcohol leads to increased productivity on Thursday October 03, 2013 @05:32PM (#6492253)
Awesome
There is a really good blog http://www.quantstart.com/ if you know how to code.