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Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels

I saw HackerTube (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510) a few days ago, the YouTube videos HN keeps recommending, pulled from 19 years of comments. It made me want to flip through them instead of picking, so I built a TV for it. I have Algo fatigue.Each topic area is a channel (DEVTV, SOLDER, RETRO, ORBIT, ...), plus HN Prime (the top 400), a music channel, and Late Night on ch 99, which only broadcasts 11pm-5am your local time and shows color bars otherwise.Similar to HackerTube it was built with Claude Code in a few hours.All credit for the data goes to HackerTube. Happy to hear channel ideas.

241 points by dsalzman - 47 comments

47 Comments

spditner [3 hidden]5 mins ago
What I would like to see for vibe coded novelty apps that are not realistically going to see updates are the prompts-as-source. For instance, I one-shotted a Roku app to play the HackerTube listings, and it works good enough:

  Build a sideloadable Roku channel/app for browsing and playing videos from
  https://hackertube.org/. Inspect HackerTube's API or video pages and use Roku
  BrightScript/SceneGraph. Deliver a complete zipped Roku channel with source,
  setup instructions, and any necessary metadata/proxy details. Aim for Roku
  Developer Mode sideloading.
thechairman12 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Okay, this is the best one I have seen. Thank you.
richardw [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Love the multitude of ideas! Upvoted. I did repo’s a couple days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50342272

It has some cool stuff if you click around some. Feedback very welcome!

5555watch [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Oh damn this is much cooler than I expected! For some reason skimming through channels is more enjoyable than click a video I'd probably wouldn't click on
the_sleaze_ [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I would like to get this up and running on my Roku, does anyone know how I could manage that?
surya_waters [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Love it ! Thank you for creating this. I am in the process of minimizing my digital consumption and was looking for something like this to live like if it's the 70s. Shameless plug: i have two chrome plugins to reduce digital distractions if anyone is interested. Sanctum : https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sanctum-its-time-to...

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smokel [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Is someone working on HackerTldr? Three sentences that describe the target page would save me a lot of time.

Edit: HackerTV looks great, well worth the click :)

freedomben [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I'm looking forward to hacker games personally. I'd love to see what games are commented on here, other than factorio
duck [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Here is one version someone already made: https://hnarcade.com/
nomilk [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is cool. It would be better if it linked to the hn comment/s and showed some gameplay on hover (also the splash page is unnecessary, ideally https://hnarcade.com/games/category/games should be the home page)
duck [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Speaking of... I should of linked to the actual Show HN page instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793693
smokel [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I can highly recommend the board game, not the programming language, Go.
dreambigwrkhard [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Someone made that already...... Was on Show HN last month.
LelouBil [3 hidden]5 mins ago
All Zachtronics games
wmchen [3 hidden]5 mins ago
HackerSentiment, which tracks current sentiment of the frontpage of HN, coming soon, which will show total ambivalence to AI.
pwython [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I've had the idea for years for a browser extension that showed positive/negative sentiment scores next to each post, based on comments. Mostly because often the top comment on posts are "ackchyually..."
jdthedisciple [3 hidden]5 mins ago
you don't need an app for that anymore

your dot or muse will happily do it for you and in fact even send you a notification about it right on your phone

low_tech_punk [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I'm wondering how come there is no ads? Why would YouTube allow this type of embedded player?
freakynit [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Google runs on ads. Ads need data. Embeds give data.
dsalzman [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Creator here - thankful and appreciative of all the positive comments. I hope people enjoy!
richardw [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Very cool! I love the effort to give it a personality.
dsalzman [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thanks!
redbell [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Well done, love it. It, somehow, reminded me of this Show HN from two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247023
gavmor [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Yup, exactly what I wanted as soon as I saw Hackertube
ks2048 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Does Youtube try to block third-party front-ends, or no?
unquietwiki [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This reminds me of https://spelunkr.tv/, except without the 90s channel guide. That effort is using Internet Archive videos to populate channels.
indigodaddy [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is amazing!
nomilk [3 hidden]5 mins ago
A version of this that's only live videos would be cool.
jimmiles [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This one is the best of the bunch so far (I loved the books one, too, though!). This one has potential! May it never be vibe-abandoned!
krat0sprakhar [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Haha this is so well done! Love it!
sebastianconcpt [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I love the skeumorphism you put on it!
101rakibulhasan [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Finally a competitor
joaobotelho423 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I found it a very cool concept
entropie [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Very well done.
minimaxa [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Love it, you missed a real opportunity with channel 42?

We did a combo books/video HN remix a few days ago: https://vektormemory.com/blog/v2-0-4-hacker-news-books-video...

imzadi [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Now turn the comments into an MST3K style overlay
thefourthchime [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Hah, nice
iAMkenough [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Now we need HackerRadio to run in the background.
frangonf [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It's on channel 24.
iAMkenough [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I was expecting talk radio, but I'm enjoying the music too!
ajairaj [3 hidden]5 mins ago
now i need a apple tv app for this
roguemonkey1976 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Oh my god yes please! YouTube is a bad time waster for me. That would at least ensure a level of quality
TuxedoBuddy [3 hidden]5 mins ago
No channel ⁶ ⁷ highly disappointed
cpan22 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
now we just need this on Google TV!
flanked-evergl [3 hidden]5 mins ago
History channel (ch11) has Joe Rogan. Must be some kind of joke, but it's not a funny one.
i_love_retros [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I guarantee all these vibe coded hacker* sites will be abandoned in a few months. Easy to make, easy to get bored of maintaining and paying for.

Gonna be a wasteland of vibe coded shit that meant nothing.

mesh [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Apps are just becoming content. Get your 15 seconds of engagement, and then move on to the next thing.