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

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.

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.

I kept flipping channels until I got to a clip of Zuck in 2005 saying:

> "We're trying to figure out what to do with Apple. We're obviously sensitive to people's privacy."

Wow.

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

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

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

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!

I appreciate the little sound when you change the channel.

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 :)

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

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

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

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

Well done, love it. It, somehow, reminded me of this Show HN from two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247023

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

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

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

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!

I love the skeumorphism you put on it!

I found it a very cool concept

Finally a competitor

Very well done.

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...

Hah, nice

Now turn the comments into an MST3K style overlay

Now we need HackerRadio to run in the background.

No channel ⁶ ⁷ highly disappointed

now i need a apple tv app for this

now we just need this on Google TV!

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

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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.