Purely Random TV In Your Browser
Purely Random TV In Your Browser 2 Comments by: Zoe Skyforest September 11, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy One of the things we used to appreciate about broadcast television is that… you kinda just got what you got. You didn’t have to choose beyond picking a channel, and then you settled in to imbibe whatever media the CRT was spraying at you. A vague recreation of part of this experience is now available, in the form of [Sergei’s] RND.TV.
- ▪Purely Random TV In Your Browser 2 Comments by: Zoe Skyforest September 11, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy One of the things we used to appreciate about broadcast television is that… you kinda just got what you got.
- ▪You didn’t have to choose beyond picking a channel, and then you settled in to imbibe whatever media the CRT was spraying at you.
- ▪A vague recreation of part of this experience is now available, in the form of [Sergei’s] RND.TV.
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| Original publisher | Hackaday |
| Canonical URL | https://hackaday.com/2026/09/11/purely-random-tv-in-your-browser/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:00:19 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-11T13:17:42.908Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-11T13:17:42.908Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | s7bjlfm0ugV0 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Purely Random TV In Your Browser 2 Comments by: Zoe Skyforest September 11, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy One of the things we used to appreciate about broadcast television is that… you kinda just got what you got. You didn’t have to choose beyond picking a channel, and then you settled in to imbibe whatever media the CRT was spraying at you. A vague recreation of part of this experience is now available, in the form of [Sergei’s] RND.TV. The concept is simple enough—it’s a webpage that plays random videos from The Internet Archive. Each session draws videos from a random sequence, with no algorithm or fancy social media nonsense to push some videos over others. As you might expect, you’re in for lots of random and weird stuff, from old Army videos to middle-school basketball games.
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