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03 Nov 2026, 9:18 AM	Hacker News	5.0	Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels HackerTV is a Show HN project that turns Hacker News' most-recommended YouTube videos into 24/7 linear TV channels, all viewers watching the same thing at the same time. The interface is a simulated CRT set ("HNTV MODEL HN-1986") with a keyboard remote: arrow keys change channel, 0-9 tune, G opens the program guide, F toggles picture mode, M mute, C captions, T theater, P power. The author flags that program durations are estimates until YouTube metadata is fetched, so shows can run short ("please stand by") or get cut off. The thread drew 347 points and 68 comments. Why: The concrete engineering lesson is the scheduling caveat: with only estimated durations until metadata resolves, a linear broadcast needs an explicit filler state ("please stand by") or accept truncated programs — anyone building scheduled, live, or sync-playback content should design that gap in from the start. For founders, it is also a working example of packaging an existing community's recommendations (HN threads) as a product surface rather than generating new content. side-project hacker-news content-curation retro-ui show-hn

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03 Nov 2026, 9:18 AM

Hacker News

5.0

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

HackerTV is a Show HN project that turns Hacker News' most-recommended YouTube videos into 24/7 linear TV channels, all viewers watching the same thing at the same time. The interface is a simulated CRT set ("HNTV MODEL HN-1986") with a keyboard remote: arrow keys change channel, 0-9 tune, G opens the program guide, F toggles picture mode, M mute, C captions, T theater, P power. The author flags that program durations are estimates until YouTube metadata is fetched, so shows can run short ("please stand by") or get cut off. The thread drew 347 points and 68 comments.

Why: The concrete engineering lesson is the scheduling caveat: with only estimated durations until metadata resolves, a linear broadcast needs an explicit filler state ("please stand by") or accept truncated programs — anyone building scheduled, live, or sync-playback content should design that gap in from the start. For founders, it is also a working example of packaging an existing community's recommendations (HN threads) as a product surface rather than generating new content.