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 was built with Claude Code in a few hours.All credit for the data goes to HackerTube. Happy to hear channel ideas.
HN · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 488 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: iptv streaming services · 45 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -38% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The product is a TV-style UI over the YouTube embed player with a catalog pipeline fed by the public HN Search API and a labeling step, all standard integrations.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: spelunkr.tv
Concerns raised: Whether YouTube allows this embedded player, Whether YouTube blocks third-party front-ends, Why there are no ads
Feature requests: Apple TV app, Google TV app, Link to HN comments and show gameplay on hover, MST3K-style comment overlay, Browser extension showing comment sentiment scores
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 188 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 189 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 368 days after the earliest competitor.
- HackerTube · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- HackerTube for Apple TV. Videos HN Recommends, on Your TV · hn · 2026-11-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- hackertube.tv · github · 2026-11-01 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- HackerBooks · hn · 2026-11-01 · 1857 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- HackerTube · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Hacker Living · hn · 2026-11-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Wikihack · hn · 2026-11-02 · 339 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- HackerFriction, HackerTube for what HN complains about · hn · 2026-11-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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