HackerTube feels like putting VR goggles on for the first time. Surreal in many ways.

My kind persona: Cool! We all need this!

My cynical persona: Now sit and wait for the advertisers to start infesting HN with recommended videos :(

My pragmatic persona: Sounds like there may be some law related issues such as

- "Then we wrap it up in a YouTube UI" -> probably violating copyright. I can't help but remember that episode from Silicon Valley, where Dinesh dumped the company to Galvin to get rid of the COPA violation

- "I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata" -> probably in violation of some ToS already

Such a pleasant experience using this site.

The playlists are good too! Thank you!

Please create something like this but for books

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

this needs dei. theres almost no women or black people, etc

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

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?