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 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.

Apparently Never Gonna Give you Up by Rick Astley has been recommended here in Hacker News at least once.

Where is the curl web API? Because I use noscript/basic HTML browsers, and this seems to require even a web engine from the whatwg cartel.

a lot of this is still too maintstream

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.

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

>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

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.