alt.hn

6/20/2026 at 11:31:56 PM

Show HN: HN Game Stories – mini-documentary of games that hit the front page

 https://video.intellios.ai

by coolwulf

6/22/2026 at 3:54:58 AM

Author here. Quick notes on how this works and where it's going: Each video is built by a small Python pipeline — it pulls a notable HN gaming story, drafts a tight narration script, renders it with a neural TTS voice (running locally on Apple Silicon), and cuts it over footage and original motion graphics with ffmpeg. The site itself is a deliberately HN-flavored list with a simple upvote API. It's early and very much a work in progress — right now there are a handful of episodes (Playdate, Tiny Wind, Battle for Wesnoth, an F-15 story, and a couple more). My goal is short, watchable mini-documentaries rather than auto-generated filler, so I'm iterating on pacing and writing quality more than volume. Two things I'd genuinely like feedback on: (1) which HN gaming stories you'd most want to see covered, and (2) whether the narration lands as "documentary" or still feels robotic. Footage sourcing is the part I'm most careful about, so I'm leaning more on original graphics over time. Thanks for taking a look.

by coolwulf