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

It's asking to login to YT to prove I'm not a bot!

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

Love Tim Minchin <3

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

Should it be rather "Show HN"?

HackerTube ... HackerBooks ... Wikihack ...

...is there something similar for Podcasts?

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.

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.

"I think this gives us an opportunity to fully cut the cord from eyeball merchants who want us to maximally engage and therefore polarize their content."

https://hackertube.org/download/hackertube-data.zip

https://hackertube.org/data

"YouTube's own metadata (descriptions, view counts, durations, publish dates) can't be redistributed under YouTube's API terms. Every record has the video id, so you can fetch it with a free YouTube Data API key in about 130 requests. DATA.md has step-by-step instructions for you (5 minutes in Google Cloud) and a ready-to-run script for your agent."

The early internet (content) was often comprised of textfiles containing URLs and descriptions (metadata) about what could be found at those locations

Would be interesting to know what sort of damages YouTube would allege if someone violated the terms of service that attempt to restrict disseminating such information, e.g., metadata about other peoples' videos

The success of a YouTube copyright infringement claim seems dubious

can you guys recommend any other good sites for sourcing videos?