tl;dr: come talk to me about this project which turns HN posts (like this one) into live audio discussions at this link (very meta - I know!): <a href="https://hackernews.roundtable.audio/live/show-hn-hacker-newsroundtableaudio-turns-hn-posts-into-live-audio-discussions" rel="nofollow">https://hackernews.roundtable.audio/live/show-hn-hacker-news...</a><p>I'm Seth, creator of roundtable.audio (formerly discourse.fm), a web app for hosting live, unmoderated audio discussions.<p>I recently created an extension to the site (hackernews.roundtable.audio) which pulls stories in real-time from HN and gives folks the ability to drop into a live audio discussions rather than comment threads. You can then post the link back to the comments on the actual HN story to invite others to jump into the discussion. This isn't meant to compete with HN comment threads, but rather extend them in a new and useful way. You can see the original post I made about it here - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26096634" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26096634</a>.<p>I'm reposting because I wanted to share updates about the project, give this a little more visibility to interested folks, and I messed up posting last time (didn't include the URL with the title - oops).<p>The most notable update is that I open-sourced the code for the project which you can find here: <a href="https://github.com/sethkimmel3/roundtable.audio" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sethkimmel3/roundtable.audio</a> (and renamed it, too). In short, I'd like to see roundtable.audio provide the ability to turn content on any site with highly synchronous text-based content into live audio discussions. This includes sites like Twitter (see <a href="https://twitter.com/RoundtableBot" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/RoundtableBot</a>), Hacker News (this post), Reddit, blogs, news sites, and more. If you like WebRTC and modern web apps, this could be a great project to hack on, and I'm excited to have community contributions!<p>Why this project? I think live audio (relative to text) decreases political polarization while increasing engagement, vulnerability, and serendipity. We can often learn so much more by talking to one another than hiding behind a keyboard. And in general, we can learn more from conversations that are pegged to some interesting topic.<p>I'll be in the roundtable for this HN story for the next few hours: <a href="https://hackernews.roundtable.audio/live/show-hn-hacker-newsroundtableaudio-turns-hn-posts-into-live-audio-discussions" rel="nofollow">https://hackernews.roundtable.audio/live/show-hn-hacker-news...</a><p>Come pop in and tell me what you think!