▲There is a similar podcast, "Boring Books for Bedtime":
https://www.boringbookspod.com/episodes.
The problem with that podcast is that most of their selections are genuinely interesting - I even listened to them on long drives (e.g. "Origin of Species"). Even something I thought would boring like or "Farm Engines and how to Run" them turned out to be fascinating.
This one, on the other hand, seems to be genuinely boring. I couldn't get past the intro.
The Sleep With Me Podcast is very good. It helped my wife when she had a period of insomnia.
He has a number of tricks he uses from a monoto delivery, to meandering stories where the narrative constantly interrupts itself with. So you can’t really “follow along”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_with_Me_(podcast)
A similar one I recently discovered is
https://www.youtube.com/@SleepOnPhysics. I think it was meant to put you to sleep with the detailed narrative, but I found it to be very interesting and captivating, especially for long drives.
The content quality is pretty good, I am almost certain the audio is AI generated, but wonder how the content itself was authored.
I don't believe it to be ai generated voice. It's too good.
Or if it is - why e.g. automated voices reading nyt articles are so bad?
In the middle the YouTube Advertisements starts playing at a louder volume and you wake up :)
reply▲colemannerd3 hours ago
[-] Marfa is an amazing little town. I was there 3 months ago; while it is out of the way, even as a visitor, everyone is nice and genuinely there to provide an amazing artistic experience. If you ever want to experience the actual weird, southwestern, cowboy country, go to Marfa. And have a drink outside this public radio station. It's quite a nice getaway.
reply▲> It's a sleep podcast wherein we read you the boring documents essential to our jobs, in the hopes we might lull you into slumber.
What a great idea, I feel li... zzz
I used to fall asleep to NPR as a kid, so this resonates. Curious if anyone else has a go-to station or podcast they use as a sleep aid?
reply▲mvdwoord17 minutes ago
[-] No Agenda is a regular of mine... the sound levels on it are incredibly well done, also for all clips they play.
reply▲bad_username1 hour ago
[-] > Ever wondered what NPR's code of journalistic ethics involves for the newsroom?
I have been thinking a lot through the years about the choice between joirnalistic ethics and journalistic activism in the ranks of organizations like NPR. This is an extremely important topic because today's media are as impactful politically as the "regular" political process.
My point is, such discussion would not make me sleepy, the opposite would happen.
I suppose it depends on how it is presented. You can definitely present boring things interestingly, and interesting things boringly.
reply▲One of my greatest memories is performing at the Chinati Foundation. Marfa is such a gem with tons of cool people just being creative out in the desert.
reply▲agreed, it's a gem. wasn't familiar with Chianti, though!
reply▲reply▲Too many American websites these days put random geoblocking in place.
What’s even more frustrating is when it happens without any explanation in mobile apps via breaking a few specific APIs.
Just yesterday I was struggling with a bank/fintech that would send me through KYC every time I’d open the app from abroad as an existing user, which would then hang forever. Using a US VPN, everything would work normally. Good thing fraudsters don’t have access to US VPNs…
Just thinking about that little big neck of the world puts me to sleep. In the best of ways. I love West Texas.
reply▲I wonder why the telephone number read aloud, and that on the web page, are different.
reply▲Too bad they missed the opportunity to read it, very, slowly.
reply▲fastsleep.app does kinda similar thing...
but instead of long podcasts, you are given something to imagine at a time interval.
Like if you hear "calm river", imagine that. If you hear "heavy rain over a tree", imagine that.
In short → Close your eyes, listen & imagine.
I wasn't able to find this, is it iPhone only?
reply▲It's a progressive web app (you may install and use it both on android and ios)
Simply visit the page and click Install.
This may even be used without installation though...
Even no sign-up is required to try this.
reply▲> The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.
Thank you very much.
So tired of the cloudflare shit.
I think you’re mixing up clouds here…
It’s really annoying, but even if Cloudflare/AWS etc. offer a big “block all access from abroad/evil GDPR abroad/…”, I feel like the site owner is still the one to blame for pressing it.
I’d like to filter the offerings to get the most monotonic voice
reply▲clicks fingers instead of clapping.
reply▲Listening now, after a day long coding binge, and I need to wind down.
It has a decent sleepy background vibe to it too. Reminds me of Joe Perra Talks You To Sleep (Adult Swim). I dig it!
i want a sleep app that reads me things that will put me to sleep, but i need it to track when i may have gone to sleep, or more importantly when I have not, so i can restart the next night past the point i've listened to. but it needs to be some crazy simple UI, i don't want the light on my phone to turn on, i don't want to fiddle, just skip forward, skip back, that's about it
there's all sorts of stuff that is dry but interesting that I'd like to plow through over time, a few paragraphs a day would suit me fine
I think it'd be an outstanding feature on the iPhone to turn off audiobooks/podcasts at ~5 min into sleep or whatever. Seems like they already have the data via the Watch...
reply▲iamflimflam13 hours ago
[-] If you have AirPods there’s a “Pause media when falling asleep” switch.
reply▲Any idea how that works? Something with the microphone maybe?
reply▲audiobook software is almost there, I've used cozy like that myself
reply▲Meh, not math finance. Thats literally lorezapam.
reply▲another is "Sleep With Me" by Dearest Scooter which are nonsensical steam of consciousness monologues.
reply▲Am I the only one that can't fall asleep to music? I need human voice rhythms, so podcasts, or whatever. The downside is not learning anything from the podcast because I'm asleep and it works its way into dreams sporadically
reply▲__MatrixMan__4 hours ago
[-] I can't fall asleep to either. I can tolerate noise, like a thunderstorm, but even construction sounds are interesting enough to keep me up with questions like: "I wonder what tool makes that sound."
reply▲The sound of a fan does it for me. Not the motor sound perse, but the blades of a powerful big fan cutting the wind. I’m addicted to it.
reply▲"Do you lay awake wondering what FCC compliance entails?"
I guessing FCC compliance doesn't involve knowing the difference between lay and lie. Or maybe they fell asleep in English class. X-p
Tell me you're not a Texan without telling me you're not a Texan.
reply▲I’d tell you what state I am from but do not want to embarrass you.
reply▲> knowing the difference between lay and lie.
I'm guessing you're not a linguist, and have no knowledge of academic linguistics.
To be fair the original commenter was incredibly snarky.
reply▲I had a similar thought and drew a distinction between snark about lines in the submitted article and snark directed at a fellow HN commenter.
Both are discouraged, neither is great, the second following piling on and getting personal example is arguably worse.
The disappointing part (for myself at least) was a failure to be explicit in how they felt the lay / lie usage should go and in what English speaking domains the preferred usages are.