It just so happens I'm right in the middle of trying to change how I watch YouTube at my computer. Despite my best efforts, I find myself getting sucked into shorts, so I'm starting investigate if I can take advantage of YouTube RSS syndication. I recently build yt-dlp and got all the dependencies sorted out, so I can bring videos to my machine locally. I'm also checking out elfeed[0] which is an Emacs based RSS reader, and elfeed-tube[1] which further customizes the elfeed experience for YouTube as well as adding an mpv integration that lets you control video playback directly from Emacs.

[0]: https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed

[1]: https://github.com/karthink/elfeed-tube

This reminds me of a similar project called Hypertext.tv, but instead of YouTube videos, it shows websites. It's an interesting take on channel surfing since each airing is interactive

http://hypertext.tv

This is super cool, I love the aesthetic. The biggest thing I want out of something like this is curation (and it seems like there's at least some degree of that happening here among the various categories).

Original HN post 2 days prior (0 traction then): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336100

Recent media coverage:

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/channel-surfer-watch-youtu...

https://www.theverge.com/tech/893598/this-is-immediately-my-...

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/youtube/this-web-app-...

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/17/channel-surfing-nostalgia-ma...

Why would you want to do that? I'm so happy I can search exactly what I want among heaps of long tail stuff, I would never want to go back to a "live tv" interaction model.