HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

really nice, set up an adaption of this for myself with a few more art, culture, movie-making sources added.

https://endtime-instruments.org/zentube/

>sourced from 39,834 HN comments since 2007.

Is that all of them? That's a lower number than I was expecting!

No login/account? What a blasphemy. Feel in love from the first site.

It's so cool to browse youtube like this again, So many cool recommendations, a much needed project

It might be neat to integrate DeArrow to fetch thumbnails instead of just arbitrarily picking picking a 50% screenshot. It could also be used to replace the titles on the server side.

How do the categories work? I'd download the video transcripts and embed the text (maybe summarized first). This way you could support custom categories via embedding similarity.

What is a 50% thumbnail?

Thank you Andrej, this is awesome!

Amazing! If only it would appear on my AppleTV...

I like this. All the "influencers" gone.

It would be nice to have some context for each video, a summary of the comments that recommended it in the thumbnail tooltip?

Some of the Alan Kay lectures are on hackertube

this is amazing. I just pause and clear my youtube history so that i don't see any rubbish and just search what i want. but this is just great.

It would be great if this could be keyboard navigable, using arrow keys and enter to play.

Feedback: On mobile, swipe back from video jumps back to top of feed with different video order.

It would be great to have an option to sort videos by upload date, so it's easier to discover recent content.

Nice. This is excessively large so it probably took a while to curate. Well done

Hey Andrej, thanks for the effort. It's highly appreciated!

In your video regarding your own use of LLMs[1] you mention https://arena.ai/leaderboard and https://labs.scale.com/leaderboard to keep track of the status quo. That video is from February 2025 and https://artificialanalysis.ai has gained quite a lot of popularity but also earned criticism repeatedly due to updating the benchmarks right before a new model release. Would you still recommend the arena and scale leaderboards? And if you don't mind, what's your opinion wrt artificialanalysis?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWvNQjAaOHw

Would love to see the list of submissions and comments that positively contributed to this.

Interesting idea! Also funny that the fourth recommendation for me was a video with Andrej himself :D

YouTube itself needs a competitor. There's too much ads.

Seeing Prejudice by Tim Minchin on the front page makes me very, very happy.

Love Tim Minchin <3

Would you be willing to share the code base of this site (sans videos list)? I know a person with a list of approx. 4500 curated youtube video links they've been maintaining for an entirely non-HN related purpose that would like to build a similar site and populate it with the video URLs. Right now it's in a much more clunky, awkward format.

This looks brilliant!

this looks great and I love how snappy it is.. Youtube feels so slow compared to this

Kind of related, I extracted opinions on products and other things for large part of Reddit and HN:

https://www.trustmebro.reviews/r/hackernews

"47,699 products, places and tools ranked from 13,576,547 opinions."

Opinions extracted using local models running on 3090s in my basement. If someone wants to take it over, you can mail me.

The travel opinions on a map are pretty neat: https://www.trustmebro.reviews/c/travel?view=map

Tired of low-effort YouTube clickbait slop? Just click on the Subscriptions heading to go to https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions. You'll see only videos from the creators you have subscribed to. This one-click trick boosts the signal-to-noise ratio dramatically.

I'm sad that there seems to be no RSS feed. It looks very nice indeed if I can remember to look.

Can i plz has rss

Karpathy is such a legend.

I wish youtube had an api with an upload date filter for all videos. One could then build a pre-ai youtube.

cool! It would be nice to have a "watch a random video" button

>I'm sure this algorithm works well for the median person on the internet, but it definitely does not work for me.

This is hilariously rich coming from the "I can't watch any movie from before the 90s because it's too boring" guy

Could this not just be a playlist?

Love it

Controversial opinion: The current state of the internet is not bad cause big tech has focused on increasing engagement. It has deteriorated cause normies have saturated the space. Projects like this are good because they have gone through the normie filter of hackernews.

I think if the big tech had focused on engagement while the users had remained mainly nerds and geeks, the result would've been extraordinary.

How come there are no ads?

Build something to fix the wicked problems of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem

Or https://www.un-ilibrary.org/content/databases/25202804

The rules are the ai can't say the only winning move is to not play and it can't choose to kill everyone.

>>Opus downloaded all comments of HackerNews

I'm actually surprised this was that easy to do, ngl

Sounds good, but could you please make it so that it can also be viewed without Javascript being enabled?

I went into the blog, and saw only two entries in 2026. I dont know how to feel.

I dont know if its because the new state of things is that all knowledge is now secret and cant be shared.

Or if its because Opus 5.5 has turned even Karpathy into a product owner/manager so now the only interesting things are products (hackertube in this case).

Either of them makes me sad. Although its probably both.

Wake me up when true science is back.

In any case, im a big fan of Karpathy.

Now do one for reddit

I guess I learn something new about the HN crowd every day. When I loaded the page, half of the first screen were videos by IDW folks.

Pro tip for YouTube proper - turn off history and only view the “subscribed” page, and search for content that you really want to see. Oh and of course turn off autoplay and limit shorts to 0 views per day.

> I'm sure this algorithm works well for the median person on the internet, but it definitely does not work for me

I see this sentiment expressed a lot regarding a variety of ways the internet has been enshittified. Are we really sure the median person would prefer this to better content if they were presented with an alternative?

And even if they would - what are the ethics of knowingly feeding slop to the masses?

Cool idea. Glad others are on the same page regarding the enshittification of YouTube content!

a lot of this is still too maintstream

Whoa, what a breath of fresh air! Just watching videos without worrying about clickbait.

And those filters and sorting options - imagine what the internet could have been without enshittification.