[longzheng]

Yeah parsing is a tough challenge for something as diverse as Hacker News where the content could be anything between a thesis, a blog post, to a picture gallery.

Will investigate Shoutcast but there might not be enough content to have a continuous stream of content.

You'll be glad to know it already switches voices between entries and automatically plays the following entry :)

[danenania]

Could you integrate Readability or a similar service? Then the hard work of parsing out the meat of the page would be done for you.