I have a nice "life hack" which I use to keep entertained while doing dishes or cooking: I make the computer read to me HN articles (not all of them... god no!)

I have a nice "life hack" which I use to keep entertained while doing dishes or cooking: I make the computer read to me HN articles (not all of them... god no!), but the select few long reads that seem interesting. I select the text of the article and press a shortcut to enjoy a "custom audiobook" for the next 5-15 minutes. I use the built-in Mac OS X text to speech functionality[1], but I'm sure you can adapt this to other OS. I have to go back to the computer and "play" a new article every 4-15 minutes which is not good while driving, but you can probably script the whole process and make longer recordings: manually select a list of articles that seem worth reading urls list --> main content recognizer --> html2text | `say` --> .wav --lame--> .mp3 concatenate all the mp3 files to form a 2h long podcast [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem8qpMmnaBFYOgV32gdMc/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem...