Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels
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…
Why am I seeing this Ranked on recency
It is here mostly because it is new. Freshness is the largest single contributor to its score, which means nothing about the story except that it is recent.
Nothing much is corroborating this yet. On a quiet day in developer that is enough to reach the top of the section — recency, not significance, is doing the work here.
Link-outLink-out, because only one organisation carries it and no first-party source is on it and the subject could not be identified from the text. Link-out means we point at the publisher and say nothing of our own.
| Factor | Weight | Score | Contribution | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corroboration | 0.35 | 0.00 | +0.000 0% | 0 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
| Source trust | 0.25 | 0.45 | +0.113 42% | Hacker News is the highest-trust source on this story. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
| Pickup rate | 0.20 | 0.00 | +0.000 0% | One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate. |
| Freshnessleads | 0.20 | 0.78 | +0.156 58% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
Corroboration counts distinct organisations, once each, and only from tiers 1 and 2 — Hacker News appears on this story and counts for nothing. Freshness halves every 10 hours, so this ranking is a snapshot and will differ at the next build.
Barath kumar basker126 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · illustrativeWhat happened
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. 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.
How this story arrived
Ordered by when each source was first observed, which is what the velocity figure is computed from. Publishers backdate; observed order does not.
- 01 Hnrss first seen Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels
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