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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.

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dsalzman 3 hours ago|
Creator here - thankful and appreciative of all the positive comments. I hope people enjoy!
richardw 2 hours ago|
Very cool! I love the effort to give it a personality.
dsalzman 1 hour ago||
Thanks!
redbell 6 hours 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 5 hours ago||
Yup, exactly what I wanted as soon as I saw Hackertube
unquietwiki 7 hours 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 6 hours ago|
This is amazing!
ks2048 5 hours ago||
Does Youtube try to block third-party front-ends, or no?
nomilk 7 hours ago||
A version of this that's only live videos would be cool.
jimmiles 7 hours 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 6 hours ago||
Haha this is so well done! Love it!
sebastianconcpt 7 hours ago||
I love the skeumorphism you put on it!
101rakibulhasan 6 hours ago|
Finally a competitor
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