It's so refreshing browsing this compared to YouTube, it feels like I don't have to constantly be on high alert at being baited into some trap. Makes you wonder what kind of internet could be possible if all these tech giants weren't just optimizing for engagement and addiction.
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zmmmmm
I've been a bit fascinated by my lack of interest in the feeds that are curated for me. They are all things I'm supposedly interested in but I just am not when I see them in that format.
I realised after a while that one of the main reasons I go online is to expand my horizons. I'm actively looking for something new or interesting or surprising that I might not have encountered or thought about before. I am also looking for perspective - give me a broad picture of how the world is so I can calibrate and introspect where my own perspective differs and could be updated. I want to see the things that don't fully align with my ideas.
So it turns out personalised feeds are actively curating against what I'm looking for. I'm curious if others are like me or is this just something weird about me. I think it is very much why I like Hacker News format. It's in the broad areas of my interests but it is anything but curated just for me.
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ertucetin
Very nice job, it'd be great if the links in the comments are actual links so we can navigate them.
minimaxa
You know what I like about this? It's 100% pure nerd content, no sneaky influencer videos or clickbaity news.
It does need a new-to-old sort though, which is easy to add in.
If you watched all of these videos, you would be the smartest, most annoying person ever. Lol
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reorder9695
I find it amazing how close the front page of this is to what I actually watch/want to watch on YouTube. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it feels like an unpersonalised feed (besides being based on Hacker News) shouldn't have a significantly better hitrate for me than YouTube's "personalised" feed.
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mrshu
While the project is very interesting in and of itself, the process section that has been edited a bit later to the post is even more revaling:
> A little bit more on my process. I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac). I use Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I don't actually do anything resembling traditional engineering anymore (read/write code, run commands in a terminal, or etc.), I only talk to Claude and have it do everything. In this case, the only "manual work" I did was: 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box and 3) I bought the domain name. I worked on this in between Claude's actual work so it still feels a little bit like team work :) Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, deploy, secure, harden and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
It really does sound like you do not need to run models like Opus 5.5 on high reasoning effort for most tasks.
dromologist
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.
perarneng
Youtube has music and long form videos and shorts
They should have have a section only for non entertainment stuff. I don't want to see memes, funny videos . unless im in the mood for it .. I just want things I can learn from most of the time.
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phtrivier
This weirdly feels a lot like my own "subscription" tab.
It almost seems like we need a system where people you trust recommend interesting content, as opposed to algos thzt shove content which will produced anger / engagement / more ads revenue.
Who would have though ?
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twalichiewicz
Interesting project, but have you considered publishing the curated videos as automatically maintained playlists (organized by topic, popularity, or recency) on a YouTube channel?
To me the most valuable part of this is the curation pipeline. I'd love to have access to those recommendations without needing to adopt an entirely separate viewing experience.
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rigrassm
You have no idea how big of a smile it put on my face when I saw the "Longs" option in the sidebar.
Seriously, thank you for prompting this into existence!
csantini
Great! We need more things like this!
Similarly, you can replace the clickbait thumbnails on Youtube with just images from the video with a Firefox extension:
This is what my dad (87) needs, filtered YouTube. He sits a lot on YouTube and often he is recommended a lot of negative World War 2 content. He is often trapped in that and although he also sees positive videos about other interesting things, depressing content gets the most attention. He has been to a geriatric doctor who also said he needs to stop watching that negative world war 2 content, since he is impacted by it.
I looked in YouTube if there is a way to filter out on key words or specific content like war, but could not find anything. YouTube Kids is a thing, but that is too restrictive.
YouTube is great for him if we could filter out stuff. This hackertube comes close. If anyone could make an app for the iPad that could filter content out by keywords that would be great.
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genxy
Wonderful!
> Fork it
> Everything behind this site is yours to reuse. The easiest way: give the zip to your AI agent (Claude Code or similar) and tell it what you want, such as a different interface, a weekly email of talks on your topics, a terminal browser, or an analysis. The zip includes a DATA.md written for agents: how the files fit together, the gotchas, example records, and how to walk you through getting YouTube metadata if you want it.
I wish there was a way to sort by recency, if i'm mainly interested in finding obscure gems from like last 6 to 12 months of ai and tech updates
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paaloeye
Should it be rather "Show HN"?
sarmadgulzar
Wow, this is genuinely so good. I just browsed it for a few minutes and the difference between this and the YouTube homepage is astounding.
Stitch4223
Great idea and works really well. Super easy to find interesting stuff!
If you ever add a link section to other sane video platforms, you might want to add media.ccc.de which has talks of nearly 500 hacker conferences. Also without spam.
voodooEntity
Gl with that.
Some time ago i build defcon.videos (down now) which basically was a similar project just full of videos from defcon conferences. Google came at me quite fast, because by their terms of service its forbidden to store a page like this if using API or automated grabbing of videos from the index (which i did logically not manually porting 100s of videos and metadata). They call in an alternate search index which is forbidden by them. Also they claim if you pull video data via their api your only to store it for limited time.
So best of luck to you
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andai
Great idea. You know, it's weird, this looks very much like my feed in 2010, in terms of quality.
I recently logged into an account that hadn't been used since then, it was like a time capsule! But within a few days it figured out who I am and started showing me manmade horrors beyond comprehension.
So it sounds to me like there's a niche for a 2010tube as well.
itsinstructive
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?
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sidcool
A lot of recent videos are about SpaceX IPO 'scandal'. Interesting
albert_e
But is this compliant with Google / YouTube terms?
I have wanted to make custom YouTube wrappers for specific interests that avoid ads and distractions. There are communities like say fans of a certain music genre etc that would find the curation etc useful. But I always thought posting publicly with your name attached is a bit grey/risky.
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privacyishuman
I like this a lot. I was just thinking about a site where you could share your YouTube cookies and then use anybody's curated algorithm because you can curate it quite fast in signed out mode.
Built (and still am) something like this, but hand-curated (watched end-to-end) rather than source-filtered. v0 test run: https://cabin.watch
no distribution means I'm having a bit of a hard time finding good videos fast enough (rejection rate through the roof rn), so send any if you know some.
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jumploops
I’m always surprised how bad YouTube’s recommendation algorithm seems to be.
Maybe it’s because I don’t watch enough videos, but it’s sort of like Amazon, in that it will suggest the exact same content/topic.
I rarely use TikTok, only to view links people send me (similar to YouTube), but the recommended content is miles ahead, making it much more difficult to close compared to YT.
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nomilk
Youtube sometimes displays an 'Ask AI' button under the video. I recently searched 'Pride of America' (the cruise ship) and the top result was interesting but alarmist/clickbaity, along the lines of 'Don't make these 7 mistakes'. 'Ask AI' let me ask "what are the 7 mistakes": it told me, and in 10 seconds I could deem that video a waste of time. Very efficient.
Overall this 'Ask AI' button is going to smash content creators who rely on clickbait. As a user, it greatly improves my ability to skip bad/clickbaity content, which I really appreciate.
numbasys
> push to a VPS, secure, harden, optimize
In my opinion this is the part that's holding back _a lot_ more people from publishing. It's a barrier that's surely about to fall. Still interested what steps you took (and manually, or Claude did it all?)
From...2014 It's surprisingly accurate. I wonder why he stopped making youtube videos.
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bentt
I love the idea of different ways to access YouTube. We should be able to make a website like this that is essentially a meta channel around a topic. Great work
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Nition
One feature I really like about this is how you've included a (presumably LLM generated?) summary of what Hacker News recommended a video, and then the actual comments recommending it. Nice to be able to see why a video is there and what people like about it.
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meken
I attempted something similar a few months ago, but specifically for documentaries after I found two amazing documentaries in the comments sections (the Disney living characters one [1] and the Mars rover engineer one [2]).
I mostly used some basic string matching to pull out documentaries and put them in a spreadsheet [3]. I sorted them by random and was going through one a day, but the results weren’t great so I stopped.
I should give it another go with a more hands-off fully vibe-coded approach.
Out of curiosity - was this created using claude code? Cli or gui? I am not even remotely getting that kind of thoroughness from claude with opus 5.5 or anything really. It seems to want to stop as soon as it thinks it figured things out and then the rest of the conversation is just itself saying that its previous claims were wrong.
Really having a bad time with LLMs lately.
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GodelNumbering
This is such a good use of tech! Although I have heard in the past that youtube is quick to ban any use of its content on a third party site. I hope I am wrong and this stays.
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zahirbmirza
Gosh, the videos HN have recommended are amazing. What a community this is.
jimothyhalpert7
This prompted me to finish HackerNewsTV – YouTube playlist of latest HN videos, updated daily:
Everyone has praised it already, so I won't be original, but I have to say that I've been looking for something like this for quite a while now. I consume a lot of long form videos on yt, similar to what you can find in your feed, but somehow yt keeps boxing me into very narrow space after a while with same videos over and over again. I've been trying to escape this trap by creating new accounts but eventually I keep finding myself in the same box.
Definitely something worth exploring.
generuso
I was thinking earlier how the comments or annotations could be implemented in the right way, to fix the problems with the Youtube's comments system. It is certainly not trivial, and one can argue whether this is even desirable. But it would be cool to be able to reference parts of different videos and other resources more fluently.
For example, Kurzgesagt channel prepares their mini-lecture videos very carefully, and they often have a document on their site, referenced in the description under the video, and which annotates the video, and justifies the choices they made in how to present things. The document gives quotes and references to academic sources. If one could navigate and update narratives like that, sort of like a wiki, with one-click references to the relevant snippets of the video, maybe that would work. But even for their videos, the comments section in Youtube is largely useless.
World wide web was unleashed by putting together in a seamless way a few things which were already common before it. One click hypertext navigation was already a standard thing for the technical manuals locally on PC. But making it work on-line, instead of typing several strings in command line made all the difference. Maybe today we could tweak the commenting system to make the comments much more convenient to navigate than they are today. Keep similar comments from multiplying unnecessarily. Allow finding and linking relevant information. I do not have a thought out solution, but there is definitely some room for innovation here, if one approached it imaginatively.
doginasuit
You may want to change the logo, it is a different color but close enough to cause confusion. Not sure what a trademark court would say but it would definitely be enough to draw intimidation from Google if they wanted to.
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ripvanwinkle
Hey Andrej,
thanks for putting this site together, it's awesome! Even more so is might be your process. Can add some color about your prompts and how you direct the work. I find myself taking much longer for different but comparable types of work and would love to learn a bit about how you direct the model. I use Astra but hope there is some transferable bits here.
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aizk
Nitpick, maybe adding the youtube dislike counter estimation for videos might be a nice touch (yes it's an estimate but it's pretty decent). Though on second thought, perhaps these videos don't need them.
Doohickey-d
Someone did something similar for the current front page: https://hn.video
There was also another one with a more youtube-like UI, which I can't find anymore.
silveryfu
Kudos to Andrej for another demonstration of frontier vibe engineering (since MenuGen). Looking forward to the new recommendation model.
uvu
I created a new YouTube account that turn of history and that's my default. If I want to watch something I have to type and search, there is no recommendation and it's been great so far. Sharing this as I think someone might not know about this and they might find it interesting.
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lacoolj
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 :)
thuruv
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!
This is very cool. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about owning your algorithms and what rss could have been.
Is there a file / feed of the data driving this?
sc970
How many tokens (or $) does something like this take to make?
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nojs
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.
cromka
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?
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beaconflint
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.
gosen
Nice idea, thanks Andrej! When will you add HackerTube Shorts? (kidding :D)
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slumbi
This is great.
I wish the same existed for conference and meetup talks!
quix0te
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.
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tdhz77
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
jonbaer
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.
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!
pknerd
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
fuddle
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.
ninjahawk1
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.
SamDc73
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
joebig
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.
firefoxd
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.
liquicity
Nice idea will watch though some - I made something similar but for food vids (filters over YouTube chefs - such as only vids with ingredients)
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
num42
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!
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.
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sakesun
AI companies sell tokens to produce slops. Then they sell more tokens to shield people from those slops.
aladine
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
AzzyHN
Hehe, longs. I'd love to see this iterated on to keep adding new content that's in line with this kind of thing!
m1keil
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.
jahala
This is great, would love filters for duration and sort by upload date
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jakzurr
OMG, thank you. Though this might cut into my sleep a bit, it's welcome anyway.
farrelle25
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.
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mikert89
Wait a second, forget the content, is the html/tech behind this actually more pleasant to use than googles hyperoptimized youtube website?
pavinjoseph
It's asking to login to YT to prove I'm not a bot!
ethanhood_okroh
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.
zahrevsky
Do you plan to update the site with new videos and comments?
walrus01
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.
yellow_lead
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?
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geoffbp
Thank you Andrej, this is awesome!
Daklone
HackerTube feels like putting VR goggles on for the first time. Surreal in many ways.
simultsop
At this point everything looks boring and possible (technically). I wonder what would change this.
krmmalik
Oh how I wish there was an Apple TV app for this. I do all my YouTube browsing on an Apple TV.
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janoelze
really nice, set up an adaption of this for myself with a few more art, culture, movie-making sources added.
Only 12 upvotes - I guess his name wasn’t Karpathy.
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iugtmkbdfil834
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.
Balgair
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!
mraza007
It's so cool to browse youtube like this again,
So many cool recommendations, a much needed project
mirekrusin
No login/account? What a blasphemy. Feel in love from the first site.
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pkal
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.
gpugreg
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.
skyberrys
What is a 50% thumbnail?
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mancerayder
Amazing! If only it would appear on my AppleTV...
jatindavis5
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.
Coill
I like this. All the "influencers" gone.
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pknerd
This looks brilliant!
imjonse
It would be nice to have some context for each video, a summary of the comments that recommended it in the thumbnail tooltip?
mongol
It would be great if this could be keyboard navigable, using arrow keys and enter to play.
morphle
Some of the Alan Kay lectures are on hackertube
fhub
Feedback: On mobile, swipe back from video jumps back to top of feed with different video order.
wildmXranat
Nice. This is excessively large so it probably took a while to curate. Well done
chrisczura
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?
It would be great to have an option to sort videos by upload date, so it's easier to discover recent content.
breakyerself
YouTube itself needs a competitor. There's too much ads.
bch
Would love to see the list of submissions and comments that positively contributed to this.
mhrmsn
Interesting idea! Also funny that the fourth recommendation for me was a video with Andrej himself :D
dizhn
I wish youtube had an api with an upload date filter for all videos. One could then build a pre-ai youtube.
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ciefa
Seeing Prejudice by Tim Minchin on the front page makes me very, very happy.
Love Tim Minchin <3
czernobog
this looks great and I love how snappy it is.. Youtube feels so slow compared to this
tmoertel
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.
davidzweig
Kind of related, I extracted opinions on products and other things for large part of Reddit and HN:
The rules are the ai can't say the only winning move is to not play and it can't choose to kill everyone.
forevernoob
Sounds good, but could you please make it so that it can also be viewed without Javascript being enabled?
gambiting
>>Opus downloaded all comments of HackerNews
I'm actually surprised this was that easy to do, ngl
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youoy
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.
blltprfmnk
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.
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mwambua
> 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?
saussianglat
a lot of this is still too maintstream
annjose
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.
mahdi7d1
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.
ChiliPie
Ur filter missed Patrick Boyle, not only that dudes content is slop but his voice too xD
mentalgear
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.
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
mbed92
Really cool idea. I also realized recently that whenever I enter YT, I enter "nshittified wall of slop"...
b0ner_t0ner
Now redo it with DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, see how it compares.
thr0waway001
"I have doors that open like this. Not like this."
_s_a_m_
i wished yt would be so fast. yt itself is the most bloated heavy app
ajs1998
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.
sejje
> Media, journalism & propaganda
Amen, we should label it correctly more often. Hard to miss it nowadays, I guess.
vfclists
Where is the source, so I can roll my own specialized video site?
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richard_chase
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tonymet
john oliver. Simon Sinek. c'mon guys
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karpathy
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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saikiran91
I can't find it on GitHub. Is it open source?
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tester457
Can you add videos sourced from lobste.rs?
mi_lk
One of the better ones but in all honesty a random ass vibed site that's on front page because Karpathy
It's so refreshing browsing this compared to YouTube, it feels like I don't have to constantly be on high alert at being baited into some trap. Makes you wonder what kind of internet could be possible if all these tech giants weren't just optimizing for engagement and addiction.
I've been a bit fascinated by my lack of interest in the feeds that are curated for me. They are all things I'm supposedly interested in but I just am not when I see them in that format.
I realised after a while that one of the main reasons I go online is to expand my horizons. I'm actively looking for something new or interesting or surprising that I might not have encountered or thought about before. I am also looking for perspective - give me a broad picture of how the world is so I can calibrate and introspect where my own perspective differs and could be updated. I want to see the things that don't fully align with my ideas.
So it turns out personalised feeds are actively curating against what I'm looking for. I'm curious if others are like me or is this just something weird about me. I think it is very much why I like Hacker News format. It's in the broad areas of my interests but it is anything but curated just for me.
Very nice job, it'd be great if the links in the comments are actual links so we can navigate them.
You know what I like about this? It's 100% pure nerd content, no sneaky influencer videos or clickbaity news.
It does need a new-to-old sort though, which is easy to add in.
If you watched all of these videos, you would be the smartest, most annoying person ever. Lol
I find it amazing how close the front page of this is to what I actually watch/want to watch on YouTube. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it feels like an unpersonalised feed (besides being based on Hacker News) shouldn't have a significantly better hitrate for me than YouTube's "personalised" feed.
While the project is very interesting in and of itself, the process section that has been edited a bit later to the post is even more revaling:
> A little bit more on my process. I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac). I use Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I don't actually do anything resembling traditional engineering anymore (read/write code, run commands in a terminal, or etc.), I only talk to Claude and have it do everything. In this case, the only "manual work" I did was: 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box and 3) I bought the domain name. I worked on this in between Claude's actual work so it still feels a little bit like team work :) Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, deploy, secure, harden and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
It really does sound like you do not need to run models like Opus 5.5 on high reasoning effort for most tasks.
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.
Youtube has music and long form videos and shorts
They should have have a section only for non entertainment stuff. I don't want to see memes, funny videos . unless im in the mood for it .. I just want things I can learn from most of the time.
This weirdly feels a lot like my own "subscription" tab.
It almost seems like we need a system where people you trust recommend interesting content, as opposed to algos thzt shove content which will produced anger / engagement / more ads revenue.
Who would have though ?
Interesting project, but have you considered publishing the curated videos as automatically maintained playlists (organized by topic, popularity, or recency) on a YouTube channel?
To me the most valuable part of this is the curation pipeline. I'd love to have access to those recommendations without needing to adopt an entirely separate viewing experience.
You have no idea how big of a smile it put on my face when I saw the "Longs" option in the sidebar.
Seriously, thank you for prompting this into existence!
Great! We need more things like this!
Similarly, you can replace the clickbait thumbnails on Youtube with just images from the video with a Firefox extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
This is what my dad (87) needs, filtered YouTube. He sits a lot on YouTube and often he is recommended a lot of negative World War 2 content. He is often trapped in that and although he also sees positive videos about other interesting things, depressing content gets the most attention. He has been to a geriatric doctor who also said he needs to stop watching that negative world war 2 content, since he is impacted by it.
I looked in YouTube if there is a way to filter out on key words or specific content like war, but could not find anything. YouTube Kids is a thing, but that is too restrictive.
YouTube is great for him if we could filter out stuff. This hackertube comes close. If anyone could make an app for the iPad that could filter content out by keywords that would be great.
Wonderful!
> Fork it
> Everything behind this site is yours to reuse. The easiest way: give the zip to your AI agent (Claude Code or similar) and tell it what you want, such as a different interface, a weekly email of talks on your topics, a terminal browser, or an analysis. The zip includes a DATA.md written for agents: how the files fit together, the gotchas, example records, and how to walk you through getting YouTube metadata if you want it.
https://hackertube.org/about
I wish there was a way to sort by recency, if i'm mainly interested in finding obscure gems from like last 6 to 12 months of ai and tech updates
Should it be rather "Show HN"?
Wow, this is genuinely so good. I just browsed it for a few minutes and the difference between this and the YouTube homepage is astounding.
Great idea and works really well. Super easy to find interesting stuff!
If you ever add a link section to other sane video platforms, you might want to add media.ccc.de which has talks of nearly 500 hacker conferences. Also without spam.
Gl with that.
Some time ago i build defcon.videos (down now) which basically was a similar project just full of videos from defcon conferences. Google came at me quite fast, because by their terms of service its forbidden to store a page like this if using API or automated grabbing of videos from the index (which i did logically not manually porting 100s of videos and metadata). They call in an alternate search index which is forbidden by them. Also they claim if you pull video data via their api your only to store it for limited time.
So best of luck to you
Great idea. You know, it's weird, this looks very much like my feed in 2010, in terms of quality.
I recently logged into an account that hadn't been used since then, it was like a time capsule! But within a few days it figured out who I am and started showing me manmade horrors beyond comprehension.
So it sounds to me like there's a niche for a 2010tube as well.
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?
A lot of recent videos are about SpaceX IPO 'scandal'. Interesting
But is this compliant with Google / YouTube terms?
I have wanted to make custom YouTube wrappers for specific interests that avoid ads and distractions. There are communities like say fans of a certain music genre etc that would find the curation etc useful. But I always thought posting publicly with your name attached is a bit grey/risky.
I like this a lot. I was just thinking about a site where you could share your YouTube cookies and then use anybody's curated algorithm because you can curate it quite fast in signed out mode.
Could you block all the trackers from loading from https://www.youtube-nocookie.com on your side?
Built (and still am) something like this, but hand-curated (watched end-to-end) rather than source-filtered. v0 test run: https://cabin.watch
no distribution means I'm having a bit of a hard time finding good videos fast enough (rejection rate through the roof rn), so send any if you know some.
I’m always surprised how bad YouTube’s recommendation algorithm seems to be.
Maybe it’s because I don’t watch enough videos, but it’s sort of like Amazon, in that it will suggest the exact same content/topic.
I rarely use TikTok, only to view links people send me (similar to YouTube), but the recommended content is miles ahead, making it much more difficult to close compared to YT.
Youtube sometimes displays an 'Ask AI' button under the video. I recently searched 'Pride of America' (the cruise ship) and the top result was interesting but alarmist/clickbaity, along the lines of 'Don't make these 7 mistakes'. 'Ask AI' let me ask "what are the 7 mistakes": it told me, and in 10 seconds I could deem that video a waste of time. Very efficient.
Overall this 'Ask AI' button is going to smash content creators who rely on clickbait. As a user, it greatly improves my ability to skip bad/clickbaity content, which I really appreciate.
> push to a VPS, secure, harden, optimize
In my opinion this is the part that's holding back _a lot_ more people from publishing. It's a barrier that's surely about to fall. Still interested what steps you took (and manually, or Claude did it all?)
What a smart idea!
Just randomly found this video from CGP Grey:
"What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us"
https://hackertube.org/watch/7Pq-S557XQU
From...2014 It's surprisingly accurate. I wonder why he stopped making youtube videos.
I love the idea of different ways to access YouTube. We should be able to make a website like this that is essentially a meta channel around a topic. Great work
One feature I really like about this is how you've included a (presumably LLM generated?) summary of what Hacker News recommended a video, and then the actual comments recommending it. Nice to be able to see why a video is there and what people like about it.
I attempted something similar a few months ago, but specifically for documentaries after I found two amazing documentaries in the comments sections (the Disney living characters one [1] and the Mars rover engineer one [2]).
I mostly used some basic string matching to pull out documentaries and put them in a spreadsheet [3]. I sorted them by random and was going through one a day, but the results weren’t great so I stopped.
I should give it another go with a more hands-off fully vibe-coded approach.
- [1] https://youtu.be/NyIgV84fudM?is=PTwtQ9v0sxQ1eCYl
- [2] https://youtu.be/QKSPk_0N4Jc?is=YGgIRFCpFpMbddu7
- [3] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uoZiAe5qHGIyUTsqFPLG...
Out of curiosity - was this created using claude code? Cli or gui? I am not even remotely getting that kind of thoroughness from claude with opus 5.5 or anything really. It seems to want to stop as soon as it thinks it figured things out and then the rest of the conversation is just itself saying that its previous claims were wrong.
Really having a bad time with LLMs lately.
This is such a good use of tech! Although I have heard in the past that youtube is quick to ban any use of its content on a third party site. I hope I am wrong and this stays.
Gosh, the videos HN have recommended are amazing. What a community this is.
This prompted me to finish HackerNewsTV – YouTube playlist of latest HN videos, updated daily:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321248
Everyone has praised it already, so I won't be original, but I have to say that I've been looking for something like this for quite a while now. I consume a lot of long form videos on yt, similar to what you can find in your feed, but somehow yt keeps boxing me into very narrow space after a while with same videos over and over again. I've been trying to escape this trap by creating new accounts but eventually I keep finding myself in the same box.
Definitely something worth exploring.
I was thinking earlier how the comments or annotations could be implemented in the right way, to fix the problems with the Youtube's comments system. It is certainly not trivial, and one can argue whether this is even desirable. But it would be cool to be able to reference parts of different videos and other resources more fluently.
For example, Kurzgesagt channel prepares their mini-lecture videos very carefully, and they often have a document on their site, referenced in the description under the video, and which annotates the video, and justifies the choices they made in how to present things. The document gives quotes and references to academic sources. If one could navigate and update narratives like that, sort of like a wiki, with one-click references to the relevant snippets of the video, maybe that would work. But even for their videos, the comments section in Youtube is largely useless.
World wide web was unleashed by putting together in a seamless way a few things which were already common before it. One click hypertext navigation was already a standard thing for the technical manuals locally on PC. But making it work on-line, instead of typing several strings in command line made all the difference. Maybe today we could tweak the commenting system to make the comments much more convenient to navigate than they are today. Keep similar comments from multiplying unnecessarily. Allow finding and linking relevant information. I do not have a thought out solution, but there is definitely some room for innovation here, if one approached it imaginatively.
You may want to change the logo, it is a different color but close enough to cause confusion. Not sure what a trademark court would say but it would definitely be enough to draw intimidation from Google if they wanted to.
Hey Andrej,
thanks for putting this site together, it's awesome! Even more so is might be your process. Can add some color about your prompts and how you direct the work. I find myself taking much longer for different but comparable types of work and would love to learn a bit about how you direct the model. I use Astra but hope there is some transferable bits here.
Nitpick, maybe adding the youtube dislike counter estimation for videos might be a nice touch (yes it's an estimate but it's pretty decent). Though on second thought, perhaps these videos don't need them.
Someone did something similar for the current front page: https://hn.video
There was also another one with a more youtube-like UI, which I can't find anymore.
Kudos to Andrej for another demonstration of frontier vibe engineering (since MenuGen). Looking forward to the new recommendation model.
I created a new YouTube account that turn of history and that's my default. If I want to watch something I have to type and search, there is no recommendation and it's been great so far. Sharing this as I think someone might not know about this and they might find it interesting.
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 :)
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!
[1] https://redditenhancementsuite.com/
This is very cool. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about owning your algorithms and what rss could have been.
Is there a file / feed of the data driving this?
How many tokens (or $) does something like this take to make?
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.
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)
This is great. I wish the same existed for conference and meetup talks!
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.
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
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
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!
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Nice idea will watch though some - I made something similar but for food vids (filters over YouTube chefs - such as only vids with ingredients)
https://mealplannr.io/discover
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
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!
https://some.3b1b.co/archive
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.
AI companies sell tokens to produce slops. Then they sell more tokens to shield people from those slops.
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
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 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 great, would love filters for duration and sort by upload date
OMG, thank you. Though this might cut into my sleep a bit, it's welcome anyway.
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.
Wait a second, forget the content, is the html/tech behind this actually more pleasant to use than googles hyperoptimized youtube website?
It's asking to login to YT to prove I'm not a bot!
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.
Do you plan to update the site with new videos and comments?
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.
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?
Thank you Andrej, this is awesome!
HackerTube feels like putting VR goggles on for the first time. Surreal in many ways.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
It's so cool to browse youtube like this again, So many cool recommendations, a much needed project
No login/account? What a blasphemy. Feel in love from the first site.
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?
Amazing! If only it would appear on my AppleTV...
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.
I like this. All the "influencers" gone.
This looks brilliant!
It would be nice to have some context for each video, a summary of the comments that recommended it in the thumbnail tooltip?
It would be great if this could be keyboard navigable, using arrow keys and enter to play.
Some of the Alan Kay lectures are on hackertube
Feedback: On mobile, swipe back from video jumps back to top of feed with different video order.
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
It would be great to have an option to sort videos by upload date, so it's easier to discover recent content.
YouTube itself needs a competitor. There's too much ads.
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
I wish youtube had an api with an upload date filter for all videos. One could then build a pre-ai youtube.
Seeing Prejudice by Tim Minchin on the front page makes me very, very happy.
Love Tim Minchin <3
this looks great and I love how snappy it is.. Youtube feels so slow compared to this
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.
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
I'm sad that there seems to be no RSS feed. It looks very nice indeed if I can remember to look.
>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
Karpathy is such a legend.
Love it
Can i plz has rss
cool! It would be nice to have a "watch a random video" button
Cool idea. Glad others are on the same page regarding the enshittification of YouTube content!
Could this not just be a playlist?
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.
Sounds good, but could you please make it so that it can also be viewed without Javascript being enabled?
>>Opus downloaded all comments of HackerNews
I'm actually surprised this was that easy to do, ngl
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.
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?
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.
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.
Ur filter missed Patrick Boyle, not only that dudes content is slop but his voice too xD
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.
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
Really cool idea. I also realized recently that whenever I enter YT, I enter "nshittified wall of slop"...
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
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.
I can't find it on GitHub. Is it open source?
Can you add videos sourced from lobste.rs?
One of the better ones but in all honesty a random ass vibed site that's on front page because Karpathy