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

189 points by dsalzman 2 days ago | 39 comments

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.

low_tech_punk 47 minutes ago

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

freakynit 12 minutes ago

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

surya_waters 2 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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dsalzman 44 minutes ago

Creator here - thankful and appreciative of all the positive comments. I hope people enjoy!

smokel 7 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 7 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 5 hours ago

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

nomilk 4 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 2 hours ago

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

smokel 7 hours ago

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

LelouBil 3 hours ago

All Zachtronics games

dreambigwrkhard 6 hours ago

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

wmchen 6 hours ago

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

pwython 5 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 5 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

redbell 4 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 3 hours ago

Yup, exactly what I wanted as soon as I saw Hackertube

ks2048 3 hours ago

Does Youtube try to block third-party front-ends, or no?

unquietwiki 5 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 4 hours ago