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.
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.
asimjalis 17 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.
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
thechairman12 2 hours ago
Okay, this is the best one I have seen. Thank you.
richardw 2 hours ago
Love the multitude of ideas! Upvoted. I did repo’s a couple days ago:
It has some cool stuff if you click around some. Feedback very welcome!
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.
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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)
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
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 3 hours ago
Google runs on ads. Ads need data. Embeds give data.
dsalzman 3 hours ago
Creator here - thankful and appreciative of all the positive comments. I hope people enjoy!
richardw 2 hours ago
Very cool! I love the effort to give it a personality.
dsalzman an hour ago
Thanks!
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?
ks2048 5 hours ago
Does Youtube try to block third-party front-ends, or no?
