--- title: Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos... description: HackerTV broadcasts the videos Hacker News keeps recommending 24/7 on channels. Every viewer sees the same schedule. Durations are estimated until YouTube... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/show-hn-hackertv-hn-s-most-recommended-youtube-videos-as-24-7-tv-channels-rtcoxlcvw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels | daily.dev og:description: HackerTV broadcasts the videos Hacker News keeps recommending 24/7 on channels. Every viewer sees the same schedule. Durations are estimated until YouTube... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/show-hn-hackertv-hn-s-most-recommended-youtube-videos-as-24-7-tv-channels-rtcoxlcvw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RtCoxLcVw.png og:image:alt: Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary HackerTV broadcasts the videos Hacker News keeps recommending 24/7 on channels. Every viewer sees the same schedule. Durations are estimated until YouTube metadata loads, so some programs may run short with a 'please stand by' message or get cut off. The interface supports TV-style controls: arrow keys to change channel, number keys to tune, and shortcuts for guide, picture, mute, captions, info, and theater mode. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 1 discussion and 41 comments across hackernews (as of 2026-11-04). **TL;DR:** The discussion is largely enthusiastic and playful, with people praising the execution and craft, suggesting spin-off ideas (radio, games, live-only channels), and comparing it to similar prior projects, while a few raise concerns about ads/YouTube policy and long-term maintenance. **Sentiment:** 70% positive · 20% mixed · 10% skeptical **The case for** - Many find the concept well-executed and fun to use. - Several appreciate the retro TV/skeuomorphic interface details. - People enjoy discovering it covers unexpected genres like music, not just talk content. **The pushback** - Some worry YouTube may not tolerate this kind of embedding without ads. - One commenter predicts many of these 'vibe coded' HN-themed sites will be abandoned once maintenance costs kick in. - A channel's content curation (e.g., Joe Rogan on the 'History' channel) was called out as a poor fit. **By community** - hackernews (positive): Mostly upbeat reactions praising the build quality, plus playful requests for more HN-themed spinoffs and comparisons to similar past projects. **Open questions** - Will YouTube allow or block this kind of third-party embedding long-term without ads? - Will the project be actively maintained or abandoned like other quickly-built side projects? **Highlights** > 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. > — [i\_love\_retros on hackernews · 1 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358651) > I'm wondering how come there is no ads? Why would YouTube allow this type of embedded player? > — [low\_tech\_punk on hackernews · 1 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50360696) > History channel (ch11) has Joe Rogan. Must be some kind of joke, but it's not a funny one. > — [flanked-evergl on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50359738) > This reminds me of https://spelunkr.tv/, except without the 90s channel guide. That effort is using Internet Archive videos to populate channels. > — [unquietwiki on hackernews · 1 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50359095) > 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... > — [minimaxa on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358662) **Source threads** - [hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346755) · 187 points · 41 comments ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Channel Surfer lets you watch YouTube like it’s old-school cable TV](https://daily.dev/posts/channel-surfer-lets-you-watch-youtube-like-it-s-old-school-cable-tv-j9uxzjhow) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [I turned my smart TV into a dumb TV with this hidden feature, and I finally have control again](https://daily.dev/posts/i-turned-my-smart-tv-into-a-dumb-tv-with-this-hidden-feature-and-i-finally-have-control-again-1sdjgmmzi) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/show-hn-hackertv-hn-s-most-recommended-youtube-videos-as-24-7-tv-channels-rtcoxlcvw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/show-hn-hackertv-hn-s-most-recommended-youtube-videos-as-24-7-tv-channels-rtcoxlcvw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/show-hn-hackertv-hn-s-most-recommended-youtube-videos-as-24-7-tv-channels-rtcoxlcvw"},"datePublished":"2026-11-03T21:54:10.001Z","dateModified":"2026-11-04T02:50:23.627Z","description":"HackerTV broadcasts the videos Hacker News keeps recommending 24/7 on channels. 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