alt Hacker NewsHackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
YouTube-style UI over 6,454 videos sourced from 39,834 HN comments since 2007.
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Its so refreshing to see the GUI. especially, since most of these videos are handpicked(?!) by users as suggestions and not originally intended to swim on the ratrace! AdBlockers helps you w/ UI distractions but the continious sloppy videos equipped q/ faulty thumbnails was/is my biggest distraction so far and thats what picked my attention on this fresh take.
I believe YT clients is inevitable (not just UI but something similar to this) similar to RES[1] happened for reddit!
Andrej this is pretty awesome. Encompasses the need for all of us devs (junior through leads) to continue learning, while embodying what our current reality looks like in the development of the site itself.
Will say tho, your videos themselves have been the biggest help so far, so I would rather see more of those in the future. But I'll take this as a consolation :)
I pay for YT premium but noticed the quality of recommendations is subpar yet I still end up wasting time watching it. So I decided I need to limit my feed to my subscribed videos only, which YT app makes annoyingly difficult.
How does HN handle this? I suppose downloading videos for consuming outside YT own app works, but what's the best solution for this, especially with Apple TV as a player?
Recency sort needs a pick between comment date and upload date, since a 2012 talk linked last month is exactly the gem you'd want.
Nice idea, thanks Andrej! When will you add HackerTube Shorts? (kidding :D)
YouTube is at high risk at the moment, because both sides of the marketplace hate it. The best creators are just as frustrated as users like Karpathy by the current state of things. I predict a subscription-based, properly moderated alternative may gain critical mass soon.
Is it right that there haven't been any interesting or good videos for the past 5 months? I filtered by “upload date,” and the most recent videos are from 5 months ago. Still, I like it. Is it open source? I'd like to know what kind of tech stack was used here.
The more popular this gets, the more incentives there are for bad actors to flood hackernews with bullshit. Though I think it's safe to assume it won't be too popular and only a few people will use it for a while.
People want stuff recommended to them from similar people without a profit incentive, that's quite hard to come by... Myanimelist and other longer-form content lists work better because of the nature of the content.
Would love to see something similar with other forums, 4chan perhaps? That's also a forum where the incentive structure doesn't lead to advertising.
Should it be rather "Show HN"?
Not sure how but adding a live up to date version of https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com would be nice to see in channel form, I don't think this matches recently recommended (unless based on # of upvotes) - still thank you for putting this curation together.
Very nice, I've had great experience using hn to recommend, more like a feed though: https://xiliary.com/bck/hn-tv.html
What makes this so good is not the curation it’s the age in which confirms our current views after years of bad information. The truth is setting us free and this confirms much
Really cool idea, you might consider bundling taps when you click a video so it auto-plays instead of opening up the native web browser for youtube. That would make it feel more like the official client. Could easily hide it behind a “buffering” screen.
that's really cool, I don't know if it's possible to add `Return YouTube Dislike` integration to shows the dislike counts. API (OSS): https://returnyoutubedislike.com/docs
and this one might be tricky but SponsorBlock integration also? to auto-skips sponsor segments and introsusing crowdsourced timestamps. API: https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/API_Docs
FP in 13 years, gratz
Nice idea will watch though some - I made something similar but for food vids (filters over YouTube chefs - such as only vids with ingredients)
With the new wave of ads on mobile, the ones with the "next" button, I gave up. Instead I use the app to find videos and copy them to pipepipe.
Maybe the curated list can be exported to load on other apps.
I recently built my own feed. On an Android phone, you can have an AI agent SSH in and make changes to it if you're rooted. I replaced the feed on my home screen with links my AI thinks I'd find interesting - it's pretty good!
Very interesting. I find that my youtube feed is nicely curated to my interests. Adapting my interests with the algo well. Discovery is mostly en pointe. It is only when I use an unlogged-in browser that I see the world outside the Matrix. That is a slopfest indeed.
What I would really like, now that you have opened up this amazing concept, is an ability to feed my own algo this entire collection. Inject all those videos into my own saved playlist. That would be anotherr cool use of this collection. Is there a way of doing that? Like some sort of algo plant food.
Great work!
I’d like to add one more thing, 3Blue1Brown has created a well-organized archive of YouTube channels launched during all the 3Blue1Brown Math Exposition Contests from 2021 to 2026. There are a lot of great YouTube channels worth checking out!
This is a great concept, but I want to see more recent videos. Not videos uploaded 6-9 months ago. It would be great to be able to filter for videos uploaded in the last month.
I’ve had the UnTrap for YouTube extension installed for a while to remove all the shorts, feeds and algorithmic content and my YouTube consumption has gone down by like 90%. Feels so much better not consuming all that mental junk
AI companies sell tokens to produce slops. Then they sell more tokens to shield people from those slops.
Funny, this user made exactly this a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672050
Only 12 upvotes - I guess his name wasn’t Karpathy.
This is great. I wish the same existed for conference and meetup talks!
I actually do like it a lot.
Small bug report: on mobile layout, the like/dislike button is getting a bit clipped and the watch later button seems a bit off too.
This is a nick interest site, a video version of harkernews. I am surprised to see videos from many years ago which surely never be seen in YouTube due to too many contents rendered by algorithms
This is great, would love filters for duration and sort by upload date
Hehe, longs. I'd love to see this iterated on to keep adding new content that's in line with this kind of thing!
I just noticed it is a vibe-coded project by Karpathy
It'd be awesome if he writes something about he he vibe-coded it
What a great idea. Does anyone know of a way of 'getting' / downloading all those URLs (maybe with the video title)..? I'm afraid of the site disappearing.
Interesting to see this person, who really spent effort to understand HOW things work, to brag (it is publicity for his employer, of course, but still) how he does not do any "real engineering" any more, making some clone of youtube (yes yes, "a much better clone, with quality content").
It is all so shallow and without any real sense.
You don't see that?
Wait a second, forget the content, is the html/tech behind this actually more pleasant to use than googles hyperoptimized youtube website?
Do you plan to update the site with new videos and comments?
One thing worth exploring would be how the recommendations compare to YouTube's algorithm. Hacker News upvotes and discussion history provide a different signal for what people find interesting, but I wonder how well that translates into video recommendations.
OMG, thank you. Though this might cut into my sleep a bit, it's welcome anyway.
For those who live alone, how many of you watch YouTube while eating at home?
If you watch or do something else while eating, what is it?
This is cool and all, but what I see is an Anthropic model harvesting (again) human output and curation. That is the part providing almost the entire value of this aggregation wrapper. What I would have preferred to see the model undertake: is somehow imbibe the median Hacker News user persona (if there is one, the reccs did serve as a proxy for that in this case) and work with YouTube API to surface a list of videos with low viewership or traction, but serve the custom taste of this audience at high SNR. I know talk is cheap, but the latter to me is a bicycle and sewing machine, while the former a neatly raked sandpile.
At this point everything looks boring and possible (technically). I wonder what would change this.
Oh how I wish there was an Apple TV app for this. I do all my YouTube browsing on an Apple TV.
It's asking to login to YT to prove I'm not a bot!
One thing I love about this is how fast it is, compared to YouTube
HackerTube feels like putting VR goggles on for the first time. Surreal in many ways.
I currently use downloaded and curated youtube videos on my local server ( mostly for my kid so that I don't have to deal with youtube autoplay or her clicking something kid would ), but this is just a reminder of much google has changed for the worse.
really nice, set up an adaption of this for myself with a few more art, culture, movie-making sources added.
Oh, oh no.
I already have about 35 tabs open of YT to watch.
This is going to kill my productivity.
Still, great stuff thank you!
>sourced from 39,834 HN comments since 2007.
Is that all of them? That's a lower number than I was expecting!
How many tokens (or $) does something like this take to make?