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Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended YT videos as 24/7 TV channels (hackertv.org)

1 points by dsalzman ↗ HN
I saw HackerTube (hackertube.org) 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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smokel
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
I'm looking forward to hacker games personally. I'd love to see what games are commented on here, other than factorio
duck
Here is one version someone already made: https://hnarcade.com/
wmchen
HackerSentiment, which tracks current sentiment of the frontpage of HN, coming soon, which will show total ambivalence to AI.
pwython
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
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

iAMkenough
Now we need HackerRadio to run in the background.
frangonf
It's on channel 24.
iAMkenough
I was expecting talk radio, but I'm enjoying the music too!
i_love_retros
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
No doubt. I just checked my bookmarks and removed tons of bloat.
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jimmiles
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!
nomilk
A version of this that's only live videos would be cool.
imzadi
Now turn the comments into an MST3K style overlay
cpan22
now we just need this on Google TV!
flanked-evergl
History channel (ch11) has Joe Rogan. Must be some kind of joke, but it's not a funny one.
ks2048
Does Youtube try to block third-party front-ends, or no?
gavmor
Yup, exactly what I wanted as soon as I saw Hackertube