Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels (hackertv.org)
237 points by dsalzman a day ago
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.
tudorw 2 minutes ago
can you add a Micheal Levin channel, no 42 :)
spditner 33 minutes 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 an 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 an 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
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
the_sleaze_ an hour ago
I would like to get this up and running on my Roku, does anyone know how I could manage that?
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.
dsalzman 2 hours ago
Creator here - thankful and appreciative of all the positive comments. I hope people enjoy!
richardw an hour ago
Very cool! I love the effort to give it a personality.
dsalzman 23 minutes ago
Thanks!
redbell 5 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 4 hours ago
Yup, exactly what I wanted as soon as I saw Hackertube
unquietwiki 6 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 6 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 5 hours ago
Haha this is so well done! Love it!
sebastianconcpt 6 hours ago
I love the skeumorphism you put on it!
101rakibulhasan 5 hours ago
Finally a competitor
joaobotelho423 7 hours ago
I found it a very cool concept
entropie 5 hours ago
Very well done.
minimaxa 7 hours 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 6 hours ago
Now turn the comments into an MST3K style overlay
thefourthchime 7 hours ago
Hah, nice
iAMkenough 8 hours ago
Now we need HackerRadio to run in the background.
frangonf 7 hours ago
It's on channel 24.
iAMkenough 7 hours ago
I was expecting talk radio, but I'm enjoying the music too!
ajairaj 3 hours ago
now i need a apple tv app for this
roguemonkey1976 an hour ago
Oh my god yes please! YouTube is a bad time waster for me. That would at least ensure a level of quality
TuxedoBuddy 7 hours ago
No channel ⁶ ⁷ highly disappointed
cpan22 5 hours ago
now we just need this on Google TV!
flanked-evergl 5 hours ago
History channel (ch11) has Joe Rogan. Must be some kind of joke, but it's not a funny one.
i_love_retros 7 hours 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.
MarchApril 3 minutes ago
No doubt. I just checked my bookmarks and removed tons of bloat.
mesh 7 hours ago
Apps are just becoming content. Get your 15 seconds of engagement, and then move on to the next thing.