{"slug": "notebooklm", "name": "NotebookLM", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "Google's AI research assistant that answers questions and builds overviews from your uploaded sources.", "recommenders": 16, "commenters": 25, "warners": 4, "score": 11.848, "rising": -1.25, "first": "2025-12-02", "latest": "2026-09-30", "why": "Liked for answering questions grounded strictly in uploaded documents and for turning sources into podcast-style audio and video overviews, often for studying.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 15, "neutral": 6, "compare": 0, "warn": 4}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 3, 6, 1, 2, 0], "listed": true, "loved": ["Grounded document Q&A", "Audio overviews"], "caveat": "Flaky UX", "short_quote": "I have been using NotebookLM for studying and really like it.", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://notebooklm.google.com", "pricing": "freemium", "aliases": ["NotebookLM"], "verdict": [{"text": "Liked for answering questions grounded strictly in uploaded documents", "cites": [{"id": 798462192, "item_id": 49903887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49903887", "by": "kazinator", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can do that with Google's NotebookLM.", "excerpt": "You can do that with Google's NotebookLM. Upload docs, ask questions where the answers are strictly referenced to the docs. I used it for \"where does it say that\" and other types of questions about ISO technical standards, traffic codes and other documents.", "context": "", "use_case": "asking questions of documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Sezwhere \u2013 Ask any document \"where does it say that?\" (built on Jev)"}, {"id": 792625106, "item_id": 49539069, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539069", "by": "hek2sch", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use nouswise or nblm that sometimes abstain instead of making things up.", "excerpt": "To be honest perplexity does nothing to make sure it's answer are correct let alone the citations. They just look plausible. For anything little bit serious I use nouswise or nblm that sometimes abstain instead of making things up.", "context": "", "use_case": "serious research", "switched_from": "Perplexity", "story": "A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for"}, {"id": 776412288, "item_id": 48525768, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525768", "by": "mutahirs", "date": "2026-06-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i used the official k8s docs and fed them as sources to NLM.", "excerpt": "i used the official k8s docs and fed them as sources to NLM. Then asked questions around topics. further refined some questions as well to make them useful. its only generated against official k8s docs so no external sources. thanks", "context": "", "use_case": "studying Kubernetes docs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}, {"id": 778051488, "item_id": 48628218, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628218", "by": "Volshok", "date": "2026-06-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the main AI-related tool we use is a NotebookLM with all lore for checking/referencing things", "excerpt": "I\u2019m the Narrative Lead for BAR, and none of our content is LLM-generated, as anyone who has suffered through editing my rough drafts can confirm. Our Lore Guidelines state: \u201cNo LLM-generated content, but using LLMs for editing or brainstorming is acceptable.\u201d I think the main AI-related tool we use is a NotebookLM with all lore for checking/referencing things Edit: I'm curious what sections read as LLM generated?", "context": "Narrative Lead for BAR", "use_case": "checking game lore", "switched_from": "", "story": "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"}]}, {"text": " and for turning sources into podcast-style audio and video overviews, often for studying.", "cites": [{"id": 783049344, "item_id": 48940584, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940584", "by": "Alien1Being", "date": "2026-07-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used it to listen to a high level walkthrough of interesting and entertaining code while driving to work.", "excerpt": "I used it to listen to a high level walkthrough of interesting and entertaining code while driving to work. Of course I then read the source myself afterwards. So far I have used it for the Plan 9 C code for ed and for the C source for Karpathy's toy llm. I plan to use it later today for the ed source from Unix Ver 1 in the original PDP 7 assembly code. 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I used to spend oodles of heartbeats writing explainers for managers and other engineers but rarely do that w/out AI now. I like NotebookLM's video creation abilities for certain things. To make this one, I: 1. Chatted with Claude about a particular part of my app. It read the code and docs for grounding and we iterated. 2. When happy w/ to scope and level of detai", "context": "engineer writing explainers", "use_case": "video explainers of system", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 784633552, "item_id": 49039597, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039597", "by": "vinhnx", "date": "2026-07-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used NotebookLM to create a brief video summary after going through the system card and announcement blog", "excerpt": "For anyone wanting a faster overview, I used NotebookLM to create a brief video summary after going through the system card and announcement blog using a cinematic video overview. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUFBhvQ2tY4. And a podcast companion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYZTW2snXow", "context": "", "use_case": "video summaries of documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Opus 5"}, {"id": 783007872, "item_id": 48937992, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937992", "by": "NguyenDat377", "date": "2026-07-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using NotebookLM for studying and really like it.", "excerpt": "I feel like the name reflect the product more. I have been using NotebookLM for studying and really like it. I wonder if with this name change, would there be a major change in Gemini Notebook ?", "context": "", "use_case": "studying", "switched_from": "", "story": "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"}, {"id": 755454883, "item_id": 47215930, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215930", "by": "maurys", "date": "2026-03-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I fed my core curated lessons into NotebookLM to generate supplemental podcasts, slides, and flashcards", "excerpt": "Hi HN, I built SWALPA (https://swalpa.org) because learning spoken Kannada is a New Year's resolution for me and I realized most language apps teach you formal grammar, but not how to negotiate with an auto-rickshaw driver or handle the \"daily chaos\" of the city. THE AGENTIC STACK (BUILT WITH ANTIGRAVITY) I wanted to see how far I could push a \"Human-in-the-loop\" AI workflow to create high-quality content in a low-re", "context": "Software Engineer at Google", "use_case": "generating supplemental learning content", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Swalpa \u2013 Spoken Kannada learning platform built with Antigravity"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaints are flaky or stagnant UX", "cites": [{"id": 752603203, "item_id": 47037700, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037700", "by": "d4rkp4ttern", "date": "2026-02-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "NotebookLM does have interactive mode but it has been super-flaky to say the least.", "excerpt": "Speaking of audio + AI, here's a \"learning hack\" I've been trying with voice mode, and the 3 big AI labs still haven't nailed it: While on a walk with mobile phone + earphones, dump an article/paper/HN-Post/github-repo into the mobile chat app (chat-gpt, claude or gemini), and use voice mode to have it walk you through it conversationally, so you can ask follow up questions during the walk-thru and the AI would do we", "context": "", "use_case": "conversational article walkthrough", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why Audio Is the One Area Small Labs Are Winning"}, {"id": 785170481, "item_id": 49073155, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073155", "by": "theantelope", "date": "2026-07-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm still annoyed the UX hasn't improved since launch.", "excerpt": "I'm still annoyed the UX hasn't improved since launch. Its so much work to go and make yourself a podcast every day. This is why I built the ClawCast to ingest my newsletters, substacks, new sources etc. and send a podcast to my apple podcasts every morning. If you want to check it out, feel free to give it a try at www.theclawcast.com", "context": "", "use_case": "making podcasts", "switched_from": "", "story": "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"}]}, {"text": " and answers that can still be wrong even when the source is supplied.", "cites": [{"id": 779635041, "item_id": 48727190, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727190", "by": "TeMPOraL", "date": "2026-06-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use them for comparable tasks pretty often and they usually sail through them flawlessly", "excerpt": "FYI: I just had three SOTA LLMs + NotebookLM all fail at the simple task of explaining to me where to put a powder detergent in my particular newly bought washing machine, despite having photos of the machine and ability to find the manual (in case of NotebookLM, it literally had the manual as its only source). After first failure (Gemini 3.5 Flash + NotebookLM), I run the other two (Opus 4.8 on Extra; GPT 5.5 on Hig", "context": "", "use_case": "answering from a manual", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing"}, {"id": 783433281, "item_id": 48964580, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964580", "by": "EGreg", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used Google Notebook LM to create the presentation, based on my notes", "excerpt": "I understand your predilection for being snarky, but you actually helped. The front page of safebots.ai contains stuff I put up quickly 6 months ago when I was first making the site. I used Google Notebook LM to create the presentation, based on my notes, since people like \u201cpretty designs\u201d. And it put the word encrypted in there, which was wrong. Yes, the data (and graph) is in fact encrypted at rest, so technically ", "context": "", "use_case": "creating presentations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Everybody's Weirded Out by AI\u2013Except the People Who Foist It on Us"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Grounded document Q&A", "summary": "Answers questions about uploaded docs with references back to the sources, and sometimes abstains rather than making things up.", "quotes": [{"id": 798462192, "item_id": 49903887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49903887", "by": "kazinator", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can do that with Google's NotebookLM.", "excerpt": "You can do that with Google's NotebookLM. Upload docs, ask questions where the answers are strictly referenced to the docs. I used it for \"where does it say that\" and other types of questions about ISO technical standards, traffic codes and other documents.", "context": "", "use_case": "asking questions of documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Sezwhere \u2013 Ask any document \"where does it say that?\" (built on Jev)"}, {"id": 792625106, "item_id": 49539069, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539069", "by": "hek2sch", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use nouswise or nblm that sometimes abstain instead of making things up.", "excerpt": "To be honest perplexity does nothing to make sure it's answer are correct let alone the citations. They just look plausible. For anything little bit serious I use nouswise or nblm that sometimes abstain instead of making things up.", "context": "", "use_case": "serious research", "switched_from": "Perplexity", "story": "A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for"}, {"id": 776412288, "item_id": 48525768, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525768", "by": "mutahirs", "date": "2026-06-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i used the official k8s docs and fed them as sources to NLM.", "excerpt": "i used the official k8s docs and fed them as sources to NLM. Then asked questions around topics. further refined some questions as well to make them useful. its only generated against official k8s docs so no external sources. thanks", "context": "", "use_case": "studying Kubernetes docs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}]}, {"label": "Audio overviews", "summary": "Podcast-style walkthroughs are useful for learning while driving, walking or doing chores, and one commenter rated its voices above ElevenReader's.", "quotes": [{"id": 783049344, "item_id": 48940584, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940584", "by": "Alien1Being", "date": "2026-07-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used it to listen to a high level walkthrough of interesting and entertaining code while driving to work.", "excerpt": "I used it to listen to a high level walkthrough of interesting and entertaining code while driving to work. Of course I then read the source myself afterwards. So far I have used it for the Plan 9 C code for ed and for the C source for Karpathy's toy llm. I plan to use it later today for the ed source from Unix Ver 1 in the original PDP 7 assembly code. Hearing it talk about Ken Thompson's bit stealing trick was enli", "context": "not a C programmer", "use_case": "audio walkthroughs of source code", "switched_from": "", "story": "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"}, {"id": 759953857, "item_id": 47497116, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497116", "by": "Leynos", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I find NotebookLM helps a lot at this point", "excerpt": "Again, here's what works for me. When I get an idea for something I want to build, I will usually spend time talking to ChatGPT about it. I'll request deep research on existing implementations, relevant technologies and algorithms, and a survey of literature. I find NotebookLM helps a lot at this point, as does Elevenreader (I tend to listen to these reports while walking or doing the dishes or what have you). I feed", "context": "", "use_case": "research synthesis", "switched_from": "", "story": "How I'm Productive with Claude Code"}, {"id": 779662096, "item_id": 48728881, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728881", "by": "mmarian", "date": "2026-06-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I found NotebookLM podcast voices better than ElevenReader's", "excerpt": "I found NotebookLM podcast voices better than ElevenReader's, so maybe check out Google's services?", "context": "", "use_case": "AI voice narration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's SOTA for AI Voice Narration"}]}, {"label": "Video overviews", "summary": "Commenters use it to turn explainer docs and announcements into short video summaries.", "quotes": [{"id": 786383632, "item_id": 49148977, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148977", "by": "jbdamask", "date": "2026-08-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like NotebookLM's video creation abilities for certain things.", "excerpt": "The bigger a system gets, the tougher it is to grok. I used to spend oodles of heartbeats writing explainers for managers and other engineers but rarely do that w/out AI now. I like NotebookLM's video creation abilities for certain things. To make this one, I: 1. Chatted with Claude about a particular part of my app. It read the code and docs for grounding and we iterated. 2. When happy w/ to scope and level of detai", "context": "engineer writing explainers", "use_case": "video explainers of system", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 784633552, "item_id": 49039597, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039597", "by": "vinhnx", "date": "2026-07-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used NotebookLM to create a brief video summary after going through the system card and announcement blog", "excerpt": "For anyone wanting a faster overview, I used NotebookLM to create a brief video summary after going through the system card and announcement blog using a cinematic video overview. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUFBhvQ2tY4. And a podcast companion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYZTW2snXow", "context": "", "use_case": "video summaries of documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Opus 5"}, {"id": 788447072, "item_id": 49277942, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277942", "by": "jbdamask", "date": "2026-08-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I'll even pipe the output into NotebookLM to make a video sometimes.", "excerpt": "I use AI explainers a lot in my own projects and have skills that give outputs I like. I'll even pipe the output into NotebookLM to make a video sometimes. This is actually a decent way to grok complex subsystems (YMMV). What I don't care for is the pretty-yet-verbose HTML outputs that I see from some teams. They can be way too long and it's often the case that the engineer who made it didn't read the whole thing.", "context": "", "use_case": "video from code explanations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed: Delta"}]}, {"label": "Study aid", "summary": "Used for studying, including generating podcasts, slides and flashcards from lesson material.", "quotes": [{"id": 783007872, "item_id": 48937992, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937992", "by": "NguyenDat377", "date": "2026-07-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using NotebookLM for studying and really like it.", "excerpt": "I feel like the name reflect the product more. I have been using NotebookLM for studying and really like it. I wonder if with this name change, would there be a major change in Gemini Notebook ?", "context": "", "use_case": "studying", "switched_from": "", "story": "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"}, {"id": 755454883, "item_id": 47215930, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215930", "by": "maurys", "date": "2026-03-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I fed my core curated lessons into NotebookLM to generate supplemental podcasts, slides, and flashcards", "excerpt": "Hi HN, I built SWALPA (https://swalpa.org) because learning spoken Kannada is a New Year's resolution for me and I realized most language apps teach you formal grammar, but not how to negotiate with an auto-rickshaw driver or handle the \"daily chaos\" of the city. THE AGENTIC STACK (BUILT WITH ANTIGRAVITY) I wanted to see how far I could push a \"Human-in-the-loop\" AI workflow to create high-quality content in a low-re", "context": "Software Engineer at Google", "use_case": "generating supplemental learning content", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Swalpa \u2013 Spoken Kannada learning platform built with Antigravity"}, {"id": 777703330, "item_id": 48606458, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606458", "by": "tacomagick", "date": "2026-06-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You may want to check out NotebookLM too.", "excerpt": "It lets me focus on learning rather than preparing to learn which takes motivation away from actual learning for me personally. For the second part I really personally think that is a big case of AI misuse, ever since I have hooked up MCP servers and let AI do web searches and even just letting Claude use Chrome it has never hallucinated a single link ever. The specific AI model you use and your enviroinment changes ", "context": "", "use_case": "studying", "switched_from": "", "story": "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"}]}, {"label": "Reference checking", "summary": "Teams load a full corpus, such as game lore or official docs, to check and reference facts.", "quotes": [{"id": 778051488, "item_id": 48628218, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628218", "by": "Volshok", "date": "2026-06-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the main AI-related tool we use is a NotebookLM with all lore for checking/referencing things", "excerpt": "I\u2019m the Narrative Lead for BAR, and none of our content is LLM-generated, as anyone who has suffered through editing my rough drafts can confirm. Our Lore Guidelines state: \u201cNo LLM-generated content, but using LLMs for editing or brainstorming is acceptable.\u201d I think the main AI-related tool we use is a NotebookLM with all lore for checking/referencing things Edit: I'm curious what sections read as LLM generated?", "context": "Narrative Lead for BAR", "use_case": "checking game lore", "switched_from": "", "story": "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"}, {"id": 775826016, "item_id": 48489126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489126", "by": "mutahirs", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "NLM for content with official sources.", "excerpt": "I used notebook LM and claude/gemini to gather the notes on K8s and created a vitepress site with it. Claude/gemini helped with design and content meta. NLM for content with official sources. https://randomwrites.com I am doing a similar with linux internals (to be published soon). ofcourse from the official docs and asking some questions around the concepts i like and forget mostly :-)", "context": "", "use_case": "gathering notes from sources", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}, {"id": 774577840, "item_id": 48411115, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411115", "by": "paultopia", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I pay for Gemini solely for access to NotebookLM for these purposes", "excerpt": "Does anyone know of any good write-ups on how to carry out this sort of task, for people who are reasonably technical (i.e., know how to code) but aren\u2019t deep in the AI world? I feel like \u201ccustomize a model based on a corpus of documents\u201d (whether that\u2019s \u201cfine-tuning\u201d or \u201cRAG\u201d) is a thing that everyone wants to know how to do but nobody actually explains in straightforward terms. (I pay for Gemini solely for access t", "context": "", "use_case": "querying a corpus of documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995"}]}, {"label": "Document extraction", "summary": "One commenter reports large time savings extracting information from documents, including OCR and handwriting.", "quotes": [{"id": 780009682, "item_id": 48750605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750605", "by": "vinaigrette", "date": "2026-07-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "notebooklm can now manage ocr/htr without a third party", "excerpt": "I'm surprised at the low rate every model manages considering the (apparent) ease of the benchmarked document. Can your pipeline produce ground truth as a byproduct ? How do you think open-weight ocr models compare to the one showcased ? I've had good results with glm-ocr on complex documents (complex by their handwriting, pretty easy layouts). What I like about your solution is the traceability of the information. A", "context": "", "use_case": "extracting info from documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) \u2013 Reason Across Documents with an API"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Flaky UX", "summary": "The interactive mode is called super-flaky, and one user says the UX hasn't improved since launch.", "quotes": [{"id": 752603203, "item_id": 47037700, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037700", "by": "d4rkp4ttern", "date": "2026-02-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "NotebookLM does have interactive mode but it has been super-flaky to say the least.", "excerpt": "Speaking of audio + AI, here's a \"learning hack\" I've been trying with voice mode, and the 3 big AI labs still haven't nailed it: While on a walk with mobile phone + earphones, dump an article/paper/HN-Post/github-repo into the mobile chat app (chat-gpt, claude or gemini), and use voice mode to have it walk you through it conversationally, so you can ask follow up questions during the walk-thru and the AI would do we", "context": "", "use_case": "conversational article walkthrough", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why Audio Is the One Area Small Labs Are Winning"}, {"id": 785170481, "item_id": 49073155, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073155", "by": "theantelope", "date": "2026-07-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm still annoyed the UX hasn't improved since launch.", "excerpt": "I'm still annoyed the UX hasn't improved since launch. Its so much work to go and make yourself a podcast every day. This is why I built the ClawCast to ingest my newsletters, substacks, new sources etc. and send a podcast to my apple podcasts every morning. If you want to check it out, feel free to give it a try at www.theclawcast.com", "context": "", "use_case": "making podcasts", "switched_from": "", "story": "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"}]}, {"label": "Grounded errors", "summary": "It can still give wrong answers or insert wrong claims even when working from the user's own sources.", "quotes": [{"id": 779635041, "item_id": 48727190, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727190", "by": "TeMPOraL", "date": "2026-06-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use them for comparable tasks pretty often and they usually sail through them flawlessly", "excerpt": "FYI: I just had three SOTA LLMs + NotebookLM all fail at the simple task of explaining to me where to put a powder detergent in my particular newly bought washing machine, despite having photos of the machine and ability to find the manual (in case of NotebookLM, it literally had the manual as its only source). After first failure (Gemini 3.5 Flash + NotebookLM), I run the other two (Opus 4.8 on Extra; GPT 5.5 on Hig", "context": "", "use_case": "answering from a manual", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing"}, {"id": 783433281, "item_id": 48964580, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964580", "by": "EGreg", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used Google Notebook LM to create the presentation, based on my notes", "excerpt": "I understand your predilection for being snarky, but you actually helped. The front page of safebots.ai contains stuff I put up quickly 6 months ago when I was first making the site. I used Google Notebook LM to create the presentation, based on my notes, since people like \u201cpretty designs\u201d. And it put the word encrypted in there, which was wrong. Yes, the data (and graph) is in fact encrypted at rest, so technically ", "context": "", "use_case": "creating presentations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Everybody's Weirded Out by AI\u2013Except the People Who Foist It on Us"}]}, {"label": "Dry narration", "summary": "One user found its speech too dry for audiobook use.", "quotes": [{"id": 778007346, "item_id": 48625459, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625459", "by": "rootsudo", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I am doing something similar but mix more simpler and didn\u2019t even get to the stage of building an llm tool. I am just using ChatGPT to distill common learning books and set aside 1 hr thrice a week. I made considerable progress, to me and then I used Italki to confirm. I used voice mode on ChatGPT to learn the tones for mandarin, and general vocab and sentence structure while for Japanese it helped me expand proper s", "context": "", "use_case": "audiobook for language learning", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Canceled My French Tutor and Built an LLM Tool That Does It Better"}]}, {"label": "Low-effort output", "summary": "Commenters complain about mass-produced NotebookLM content and padded slide decks.", "quotes": [{"id": 744159088, "item_id": 46509943, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509943", "by": "PeterStuer", "date": "2026-01-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "about 50% of digital technical content in my YouTube feed is now NotebookLM slop", "excerpt": "AI fatigue is real. I would guess about 50% of digital technical content in my YouTube feed is now NotebookLM slop. Don't mistake me for an AI hater. I love using AI in my dev and research work. But having the same scripted low effort content being churned out en mass on every media platform is making curation such a nescessary high maintainance chore.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right"}, {"id": 762845121, "item_id": 47677820, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677820", "by": "anonzzzies", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "notebooklm will add 100 slidedecks for juiceness", "excerpt": "I use AI for code and we review that code and write tests ourselves first which the AI cannot touch. For writing we hardly ever do, unless we know the requester of something is incompetent and will never read it anyway; then it is a waste of time to do anything, but they expect something substantial and nice looking to tick a few boxes. It is great for that; a large bank with 40 layers of management, all equally inco", "context": "", "use_case": "generating slide decks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left"}]}, {"label": "Rename confusion", "summary": "A rename to Gemini Notebook annoyed users who had to explain the change to others.", "quotes": [{"id": 783106720, "item_id": 48944170, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944170", "by": "minraws", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a tool I use and have helped friends adopt it", "excerpt": "This is the first time it has happened to a tool I use and have helped friends adopt it. Again I don't condone it but this gets very annoying to explain that everything is renamed now to X instead of Y to your uncles and friends...", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"}, {"id": 783007872, "item_id": 48937992, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937992", "by": "NguyenDat377", "date": "2026-07-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using NotebookLM for studying and really like it.", "excerpt": "I feel like the name reflect the product more. I have been using NotebookLM for studying and really like it. 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Upload docs, ask questions where the answers are strictly referenced to the docs. I used it for \"where does it say that\" and other types of questions about ISO technical standards, traffic codes and other documents.", "context": "", "use_case": "asking questions of documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Sezwhere \u2013 Ask any document \"where does it say that?\" (built on Jev)"}, {"id": 792625106, "item_id": 49539069, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539069", "by": "hek2sch", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use nouswise or nblm that sometimes abstain instead of making things up.", "excerpt": "To be honest perplexity does nothing to make sure it's answer are correct let alone the citations. They just look plausible. For anything little bit serious I use nouswise or nblm that sometimes abstain instead of making things up.", "context": "", "use_case": "serious research", "switched_from": "Perplexity", "story": "A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for"}, {"id": 788447072, "item_id": 49277942, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277942", "by": "jbdamask", "date": "2026-08-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I'll even pipe the output into NotebookLM to make a video sometimes.", "excerpt": "I use AI explainers a lot in my own projects and have skills that give outputs I like. I'll even pipe the output into NotebookLM to make a video sometimes. This is actually a decent way to grok complex subsystems (YMMV). What I don't care for is the pretty-yet-verbose HTML outputs that I see from some teams. They can be way too long and it's often the case that the engineer who made it didn't read the whole thing.", "context": "", "use_case": "video from code explanations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed: Delta"}, {"id": 786383632, "item_id": 49148977, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148977", "by": "jbdamask", "date": "2026-08-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like NotebookLM's video creation abilities for certain things.", "excerpt": "The bigger a system gets, the tougher it is to grok. I used to spend oodles of heartbeats writing explainers for managers and other engineers but rarely do that w/out AI now. I like NotebookLM's video creation abilities for certain things. To make this one, I: 1. Chatted with Claude about a particular part of my app. It read the code and docs for grounding and we iterated. 2. When happy w/ to scope and level of detai", "context": "engineer writing explainers", "use_case": "video explainers of system", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 785170481, "item_id": 49073155, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073155", "by": "theantelope", "date": "2026-07-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm still annoyed the UX hasn't improved since launch.", "excerpt": "I'm still annoyed the UX hasn't improved since launch. Its so much work to go and make yourself a podcast every day. This is why I built the ClawCast to ingest my newsletters, substacks, new sources etc. and send a podcast to my apple podcasts every morning. If you want to check it out, feel free to give it a try at www.theclawcast.com", "context": "", "use_case": "making podcasts", "switched_from": "", "story": "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"}, {"id": 784633552, "item_id": 49039597, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039597", "by": "vinhnx", "date": "2026-07-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used NotebookLM to create a brief video summary after going through the system card and announcement blog", "excerpt": "For anyone wanting a faster overview, I used NotebookLM to create a brief video summary after going through the system card and announcement blog using a cinematic video overview. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUFBhvQ2tY4. And a podcast companion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYZTW2snXow", "context": "", "use_case": "video summaries of documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Opus 5"}, {"id": 783433281, "item_id": 48964580, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964580", "by": "EGreg", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used Google Notebook LM to create the presentation, based on my notes", "excerpt": "I understand your predilection for being snarky, but you actually helped. The front page of safebots.ai contains stuff I put up quickly 6 months ago when I was first making the site. I used Google Notebook LM to create the presentation, based on my notes, since people like \u201cpretty designs\u201d. And it put the word encrypted in there, which was wrong. Yes, the data (and graph) is in fact encrypted at rest, so technically ", "context": "", "use_case": "creating presentations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Everybody's Weirded Out by AI\u2013Except the People Who Foist It on Us"}, {"id": 783106720, "item_id": 48944170, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944170", "by": "minraws", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a tool I use and have helped friends adopt it", "excerpt": "This is the first time it has happened to a tool I use and have helped friends adopt it. Again I don't condone it but this gets very annoying to explain that everything is renamed now to X instead of Y to your uncles and friends...", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"}, {"id": 783095168, "item_id": 48943448, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943448", "by": "satwikhebbar", "date": "2026-07-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "they did have a search integration to pull in references. You may want to try this again.", "excerpt": "I used it a couple of days back and they did have a search integration to pull in references. You may want to try this again.", "context": "", "use_case": "research with sources", "switched_from": "", "story": "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"}, {"id": 783049344, "item_id": 48940584, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940584", "by": "Alien1Being", "date": "2026-07-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used it to listen to a high level walkthrough of interesting and entertaining code while driving to work.", "excerpt": "I used it to listen to a high level walkthrough of interesting and entertaining code while driving to work. Of course I then read the source myself afterwards. So far I have used it for the Plan 9 C code for ed and for the C source for Karpathy's toy llm. I plan to use it later today for the ed source from Unix Ver 1 in the original PDP 7 assembly code. Hearing it talk about Ken Thompson's bit stealing trick was enli", "context": "not a C programmer", "use_case": "audio walkthroughs of source code", "switched_from": "", "story": "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"}, {"id": 783007872, "item_id": 48937992, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937992", "by": "NguyenDat377", "date": "2026-07-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using NotebookLM for studying and really like it.", "excerpt": "I feel like the name reflect the product more. I have been using NotebookLM for studying and really like it. I wonder if with this name change, would there be a major change in Gemini Notebook ?", "context": "", "use_case": "studying", "switched_from": "", "story": "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"}, {"id": 780009682, "item_id": 48750605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750605", "by": "vinaigrette", "date": "2026-07-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "notebooklm can now manage ocr/htr without a third party", "excerpt": "I'm surprised at the low rate every model manages considering the (apparent) ease of the benchmarked document. Can your pipeline produce ground truth as a byproduct ? How do you think open-weight ocr models compare to the one showcased ? I've had good results with glm-ocr on complex documents (complex by their handwriting, pretty easy layouts). What I like about your solution is the traceability of the information. A", "context": "", "use_case": "extracting info from documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) \u2013 Reason Across Documents with an API"}, {"id": 779662096, "item_id": 48728881, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728881", "by": "mmarian", "date": "2026-06-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I found NotebookLM podcast voices better than ElevenReader's", "excerpt": "I found NotebookLM podcast voices better than ElevenReader's, so maybe check out Google's services?", "context": "", "use_case": "AI voice narration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's SOTA for AI Voice Narration"}, {"id": 779635041, "item_id": 48727190, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727190", "by": "TeMPOraL", "date": "2026-06-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use them for comparable tasks pretty often and they usually sail through them flawlessly", "excerpt": "FYI: I just had three SOTA LLMs + NotebookLM all fail at the simple task of explaining to me where to put a powder detergent in my particular newly bought washing machine, despite having photos of the machine and ability to find the manual (in case of NotebookLM, it literally had the manual as its only source). After first failure (Gemini 3.5 Flash + NotebookLM), I run the other two (Opus 4.8 on Extra; GPT 5.5 on Hig", "context": "", "use_case": "answering from a manual", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing"}, {"id": 778051488, "item_id": 48628218, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628218", "by": "Volshok", "date": "2026-06-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the main AI-related tool we use is a NotebookLM with all lore for checking/referencing things", "excerpt": "I\u2019m the Narrative Lead for BAR, and none of our content is LLM-generated, as anyone who has suffered through editing my rough drafts can confirm. Our Lore Guidelines state: \u201cNo LLM-generated content, but using LLMs for editing or brainstorming is acceptable.\u201d I think the main AI-related tool we use is a NotebookLM with all lore for checking/referencing things Edit: I'm curious what sections read as LLM generated?", "context": "Narrative Lead for BAR", "use_case": "checking game lore", "switched_from": "", "story": "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"}, {"id": 778007346, "item_id": 48625459, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625459", "by": "rootsudo", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I am doing something similar but mix more simpler and didn\u2019t even get to the stage of building an llm tool. I am just using ChatGPT to distill common learning books and set aside 1 hr thrice a week. I made considerable progress, to me and then I used Italki to confirm. I used voice mode on ChatGPT to learn the tones for mandarin, and general vocab and sentence structure while for Japanese it helped me expand proper s", "context": "", "use_case": "audiobook for language learning", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Canceled My French Tutor and Built an LLM Tool That Does It Better"}, {"id": 777703330, "item_id": 48606458, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606458", "by": "tacomagick", "date": "2026-06-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You may want to check out NotebookLM too.", "excerpt": "It lets me focus on learning rather than preparing to learn which takes motivation away from actual learning for me personally. For the second part I really personally think that is a big case of AI misuse, ever since I have hooked up MCP servers and let AI do web searches and even just letting Claude use Chrome it has never hallucinated a single link ever. The specific AI model you use and your enviroinment changes ", "context": "", "use_case": "studying", "switched_from": "", "story": "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"}, {"id": 776412288, "item_id": 48525768, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525768", "by": "mutahirs", "date": "2026-06-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i used the official k8s docs and fed them as sources to NLM.", "excerpt": "i used the official k8s docs and fed them as sources to NLM. Then asked questions around topics. further refined some questions as well to make them useful. its only generated against official k8s docs so no external sources. thanks", "context": "", "use_case": "studying Kubernetes docs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}, {"id": 775826016, "item_id": 48489126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489126", "by": "mutahirs", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "NLM for content with official sources.", "excerpt": "I used notebook LM and claude/gemini to gather the notes on K8s and created a vitepress site with it. Claude/gemini helped with design and content meta. NLM for content with official sources. https://randomwrites.com I am doing a similar with linux internals (to be published soon). ofcourse from the official docs and asking some questions around the concepts i like and forget mostly :-)", "context": "", "use_case": "gathering notes from sources", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}, {"id": 774577840, "item_id": 48411115, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411115", "by": "paultopia", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I pay for Gemini solely for access to NotebookLM for these purposes", "excerpt": "Does anyone know of any good write-ups on how to carry out this sort of task, for people who are reasonably technical (i.e., know how to code) but aren\u2019t deep in the AI world? I feel like \u201ccustomize a model based on a corpus of documents\u201d (whether that\u2019s \u201cfine-tuning\u201d or \u201cRAG\u201d) is a thing that everyone wants to know how to do but nobody actually explains in straightforward terms. (I pay for Gemini solely for access t", "context": "", "use_case": "querying a corpus of documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995"}, {"id": 762845121, "item_id": 47677820, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677820", "by": "anonzzzies", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "notebooklm will add 100 slidedecks for juiceness", "excerpt": "I use AI for code and we review that code and write tests ourselves first which the AI cannot touch. For writing we hardly ever do, unless we know the requester of something is incompetent and will never read it anyway; then it is a waste of time to do anything, but they expect something substantial and nice looking to tick a few boxes. It is great for that; a large bank with 40 layers of management, all equally inco", "context": "", "use_case": "generating slide decks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left"}, {"id": 759953857, "item_id": 47497116, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497116", "by": "Leynos", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I find NotebookLM helps a lot at this point", "excerpt": "Again, here's what works for me. When I get an idea for something I want to build, I will usually spend time talking to ChatGPT about it. I'll request deep research on existing implementations, relevant technologies and algorithms, and a survey of literature. I find NotebookLM helps a lot at this point, as does Elevenreader (I tend to listen to these reports while walking or doing the dishes or what have you). I feed", "context": "", "use_case": "research synthesis", "switched_from": "", "story": "How I'm Productive with Claude Code"}, {"id": 755454883, "item_id": 47215930, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215930", "by": "maurys", "date": "2026-03-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I fed my core curated lessons into NotebookLM to generate supplemental podcasts, slides, and flashcards", "excerpt": "Hi HN, I built SWALPA (https://swalpa.org) because learning spoken Kannada is a New Year's resolution for me and I realized most language apps teach you formal grammar, but not how to negotiate with an auto-rickshaw driver or handle the \"daily chaos\" of the city. THE AGENTIC STACK (BUILT WITH ANTIGRAVITY) I wanted to see how far I could push a \"Human-in-the-loop\" AI workflow to create high-quality content in a low-re", "context": "Software Engineer at Google", "use_case": "generating supplemental learning content", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Swalpa \u2013 Spoken Kannada learning platform built with Antigravity"}, {"id": 752603203, "item_id": 47037700, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037700", "by": "d4rkp4ttern", "date": "2026-02-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "NotebookLM does have interactive mode but it has been super-flaky to say the least.", "excerpt": "Speaking of audio + AI, here's a \"learning hack\" I've been trying with voice mode, and the 3 big AI labs still haven't nailed it: While on a walk with mobile phone + earphones, dump an article/paper/HN-Post/github-repo into the mobile chat app (chat-gpt, claude or gemini), and use voice mode to have it walk you through it conversationally, so you can ask follow up questions during the walk-thru and the AI would do we", "context": "", "use_case": "conversational article walkthrough", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why Audio Is the One Area Small Labs Are Winning"}, {"id": 746656544, "item_id": 46666034, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666034", "by": "janpmz", "date": "2026-01-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "(similar to NotebookLM)", "excerpt": "> You'll find thousands of shows with perfect audio quality and professional-grade cover art that contain absolutely zero intellectual nutritional value This is why I switched to audio books. Many podcasts with real guests contained too much salad and not enough meat (e.g. a machine learning podcast but they talked about going to conferences). Contrary to what many think, I believe AI generated content can increase t", "context": "", "use_case": "summarizing papers into podcasts", "switched_from": "", "story": "Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid"}, {"id": 744159088, "item_id": 46509943, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509943", "by": "PeterStuer", "date": "2026-01-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "about 50% of digital technical content in my YouTube feed is now NotebookLM slop", "excerpt": "AI fatigue is real. I would guess about 50% of digital technical content in my YouTube feed is now NotebookLM slop. Don't mistake me for an AI hater. I love using AI in my dev and research work. But having the same scripted low effort content being churned out en mass on every media platform is making curation such a nescessary high maintainance chore.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right"}, {"id": 737937074, "item_id": 46121067, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121067", "by": "mark_l_watson", "date": "2025-12-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I am still happy to pay Google because of their ecosystem or Gemini app, NotebookLM, Colab, gemini-cli, etc.", "excerpt": "I used DeepSeek-v3.2 to solve two coding problems by pasting code and directions as one large prompt into a chat interface and it performed very well. VERY WELL! I am still happy to pay Google because of their ecosystem or Gemini app, NotebookLM, Colab, gemini-cli, etc. Google\u2019s moat for me is all the tooling and engineering around the models. That said, my one year Google AI subscription ends in four months and I mi", "context": "retired 'gentleman scientist'", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"}]}