HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

a lot of this is still too maintstream

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

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.

Now do one for reddit

Appreciate the effort, yet I think there is a place this is needed even more:

> It was Friday night at 11pm, I was tired, I went to YouTube to watch something and realized that I was looking at an enshittified wall of slop.

Please do the same thing on Social Media: Facebook, 'X', reddit, instagram, etc . Maybe find a 'hacker signal' that identifies quality content across those platforms and have them aggregated for the public so we don't have to spend time in the fascist network prisons.

The greatest trick - if it even can be pulled - would be setting it up in a way that it can't be sued out of existence by the angry platform overlords - if you can do this, then you are truly a genius, sir.

Free the people.

Ur filter missed Patrick Boyle, not only that dudes content is slop but his voice too xD

Really cool idea. I also realized recently that whenever I enter YT, I enter "nshittified wall of slop"...

I found this gem there: Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey (https://hackertube.org/watch/rI8tNMsozo0)

And lol ... Can you imagine how savage this is, with Rich's disgust with ORM and entangled concepts and like the audience sits there with their ActiveRecord and 10 levels deep inheritance and rails 'easy way' of doing stuff. Probably was a bigger shocker than dHH's keynote this year. lol

Now redo it with DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, see how it compares.

"I have doors that open like this. Not like this."

i wished yt would be so fast. yt itself is the most bloated heavy app

Unfortunately HN is just another algorithm. It roughly aligns with what I already see on my youtube but includes some terribly old videos and a mix of videos from creators I'm currently subscribed to and channels I know I never want to watch again like Joe Rogan, Sabine Hossenfelder, Lex Fridman etc. This is indeed a HN video site and I hate it lol.

The youtube video recommendation algorithm isn't that bad if you're careful which videos you watch. Sometimes you'll take a risk on a video and it'll punish you with a week of similar videos though.

> Media, journalism & propaganda

Amen, we should label it correctly more often. Hard to miss it nowadays, I guess.

Where is the source, so I can roll my own specialized video site?

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john oliver. Simon Sinek. c'mon guys

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Changelog push from HN comments on this thread:

- Filters on search and topic pages: upload date, duration, type (talk, lecture, documentary, ...), and sort by upload date, view count, etc. (ty jahala, kiuiras, mixtureoftakes)

- Filters are now on the home page too, no need to search first. Picking one shows all matching videos, e.g. every lecture over an hour. (ty kkotak, macote, Aboutplants)

- Sort by "Recently recommended": orders by the latest HN recommendation instead of upload date, so a 2012 talk that someone linked last month floats to the top. Also a chip on the home page. (ty beaconflint, mixtureoftakes)

- Sort by like ratio as a quality signal: likes/views, damped so small videos can't win on a handful of likes. (ty gpugreg)

- "Play all on YouTube": turns the videos on a page (up to 50) into a temporary YouTube playlist, so it works in the YouTube app on phones and TVs. A start toward real HackerTube playlists. (ty twalichiewicz, waschl, victor9000)

- Removed the YouTube-looking logo. (ty doginasuit)

- HackerTube Longs: every video over an hour, right where YouTube puts Shorts. (ty gosen)

- Bonus: "Hidden gems" filter (loved on HN, under 100k views on YouTube), and "Evergreen only" to hide news-of-the-week videos.

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I can't find it on GitHub. Is it open source?

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Can you add videos sourced from lobste.rs?

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One of the better ones but in all honesty a random ass vibed site that's on front page because Karpathy

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