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

Posted by dsalzman 1 day ago

Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels(hackertv.org)

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.

246 points | 50 comments

asimjalis 1 minute ago|

Nice. I like this. One minor usability issue I saw. In the guide, the channels start with the lowest on top and then go down to the higher ones. But the up and down arrows work the opposite way. For example, the down arrow moves me to a lower channel, which is the opposite direction of the guide. Maybe there is no elegant solution to this.

spditner 1 hour 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 1 hour ago||

Okay, this is the best one I have seen. Thank you.

richardw 2 hours 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 1 hour 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

surya_waters 4 hours 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 8 hours 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 8 hours ago||

I'm looking forward to hacker games personally. I'd love to see what games are commented on here, other than factorio

duck 7 hours ago|||

Here is one version someone already made: https://hnarcade.com/

nomilk 5 hours 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 hours ago||

Speaking of... I should of linked to the actual Show HN page instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793693

smokel 8 hours ago||||

I can highly recommend the board game, not the programming language, Go.

dreambigwrkhard 8 hours ago||||

Someone made that already...... Was on Show HN last month.

LelouBil 4 hours ago|||

All Zachtronics games

wmchen 7 hours ago|||

HackerSentiment, which tracks current sentiment of the frontpage of HN, coming soon, which will show total ambivalence to AI.

pwython 6 hours 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 6 hours 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 2 hours ago||

I'm wondering how come there is no ads? Why would YouTube allow this type of embedded player?

freakynit 2 hours ago|

Google runs on ads. Ads need data. Embeds give data.

the_sleaze_ 1 hour ago||

I would like to get this up and running on my Roku, does anyone know how I could manage that?

tudorw 33 minutes ago|

can you add a Micheal Levin channel, no 42 :)

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