Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels
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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…
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- dsalzman
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- Nov 3, 2026
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- hackertv.org
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Trending history
Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 3, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 185 checks on 6 different days, across 3 lists (Hacker News · Front page, Hacker News · Show HN, Hacker News · Show HN · this week). Its best position was #3 of 30, reached on Nov 4, 16:07 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 8, 15:50 UTC.
Rank history
Position on Hacker News · Front page at every check (lower is better).
Last 14 days
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Where it trended
| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
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| Hacker News · Front page | #3 | 2 | 92 | |
| Hacker News · Show HN | #4 | 1 | 13 | |
| Hacker News · Show HN · this week | #3 | 4 | 80 |
From the discussion
A few top-level comments from Hacker News, shortened. Read the full thread on Hacker News.
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…
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
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!
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Is Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 8, 15:50 UTC, after 6 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels reached?
#3 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 4, 16:07 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 3, 2026 and has been on the list on 6 days (185 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
488 points and 83 comments; submitted by dsalzman on Nov 3, 2026.