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

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.

duck | 7 hours ago

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

nomilk | 6 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 | 4 hours ago

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

LelouBil | 5 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 | 7 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

iAMkenough | 8 hours ago

Now we need HackerRadio to run in the background.

frangonf | 8 hours ago

It's on channel 24.

iAMkenough | 7 hours ago

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

thefourthchime | 8 hours ago

Hah, nice

TuxedoBuddy | 7 hours ago

No channel ⁶ ⁷ highly disappointed

joaobotelho423 | 7 hours ago

I found it a very cool concept

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.

mesh | 7 hours ago

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

MarchApril | 57 minutes ago

No doubt. I just checked my bookmarks and removed tons of bloat.

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...

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!

sebastianconcpt | 7 hours ago

I love the skeumorphism you put on it!

nomilk | 7 hours ago

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

imzadi | 6 hours ago

Now turn the comments into an MST3K style overlay

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!

cpan22 | 6 hours ago

now we just need this on Google TV!

entropie | 6 hours ago

Very well done.

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

krat0sprakhar | 5 hours ago

Haha this is so well done! Love it!

flanked-evergl | 5 hours ago

History channel (ch11) has Joe Rogan. Must be some kind of joke, but it's not a funny one.

101rakibulhasan | 5 hours ago

Finally a competitor

ks2048 | 5 hours ago

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

gavmor | 5 hours ago

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

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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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

low_tech_punk | 3 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.

[OP] dsalzman | 3 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.

[OP] dsalzman | an hour ago

Thanks!

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 | 2 hours 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

the_sleaze_ | 2 hours ago

I would like to get this up and running on my Roku, does anyone know how I could manage that?

thechairman12 | an hour ago

Okay, this is the best one I have seen. Thank you.

spditner | an hour 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.

tudorw | 55 minutes ago

can you add a Micheal Levin channel, no 42 :)

asimjalis | 24 minutes ago

Nice. I like this. One minor usability issue I saw. In the guide, the channels start with the lowest on top and then go down to the higher ones. But the up and down arrows work the opposite way. For example, the down arrow moves me to a lower channel, which is the opposite direction of the guide. Maybe there is no elegant solution to this.

vavooom | 9 minutes ago

This did scratch a nostalgic itch honestly! Great execution of interluding into the middle of episodes as well to feel organic and live.