Yet another Hacker News

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

72 points dsalzman 21 hours ago 21 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.

smokel 1 hour ago | parent

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 1 hour ago | parent

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

smokel 1 hour ago | parent

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

dreambigwrkhard 1 hour ago | parent

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

duck 30 minutes ago | parent

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

wmchen 59 minutes ago | parent

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

pwython 10 minutes ago | parent

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..."

iAMkenough 1 hour ago | parent

Now we need HackerRadio to run in the background.

frangonf 1 hour ago | parent

It's on channel 24.

iAMkenough 36 minutes ago | parent

I was expecting talk radio, but I'm enjoying the music too!

thefourthchime 1 hour ago | parent

Hah, nice

TuxedoBuddy 57 minutes ago | parent

No channel ⁶ ⁷ highly disappointed

joaobotelho423 47 minutes ago | parent

I found it a very cool concept

i_love_retros 39 minutes ago | parent

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.

mesh 38 minutes ago | parent

Apps are just becoming content. Get your 15 seconds of engagement, and then move on to the next thing.

minimaxa 38 minutes ago | parent

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...

jimmiles 32 minutes ago | parent

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!

sebastianconcpt 22 minutes ago | parent

I love the skeumorphism you put on it!

nomilk 15 minutes ago | parent

A version of this that's only live videos would be cool.

imzadi 6 minutes ago | parent

Now turn the comments into an MST3K style overlay

unquietwiki 4 minutes ago | parent

This reminds me of https://spelunkr.tv/, except without the 90s channel guide. That effort is using Internet Archive videos to populate channels.