alt Hacker NewsShow 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.
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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 :)
Well done, love it. It, somehow, reminded me of this Show HN from two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247023
Does Youtube try to block third-party front-ends, or no?
This reminds me of https://spelunkr.tv/, except without the 90s channel guide. That effort is using Internet Archive videos to populate channels.
A version of this that's only live videos would be cool.
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!
Haha this is so well done! Love it!
Finally a competitor
I love the skeumorphism you put on it!
Very well done.
I found it a very cool concept
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...
Now turn the comments into an MST3K style overlay
Hah, nice
History channel (ch11) has Joe Rogan. Must be some kind of joke, but it's not a funny one.
No channel ⁶ ⁷ highly disappointed
now we just need this on Google TV!
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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.
Yup, exactly what I wanted as soon as I saw Hackertube