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Posted by karpathy 6 hours ago

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN(karpathy.bearblog.dev)
YouTube-style UI over 6,454 videos sourced from 39,834 HN comments since 2007.

https://hackertube.org/

702 points | 237 commentspage 4
quix0te 3 hours ago|
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.
blast 3 hours ago||
Could it be that the huggingface export mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320784 is out of date?
jwpapi 3 hours ago||
lol no good content has been created since 5 months humans have lost all creativity
cliche 4 hours ago||
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?

freddref 3 hours ago||
Very nice, I've had great experience using hn to recommend, more like a feed though: https://xiliary.com/bck/hn-tv.html
jonbaer 4 hours ago||
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.
dang 4 hours ago|
I've been wanting to make that work for a long time! Assuming I understand you correctly: for HN to segment youtube domains so they show as youtube/channel the way github/username, twitter/username, etc., do.

I think I got stuck on needing some account to access the API that will tell you the channel name.

sc970 6 hours ago||
How many tokens (or $) does something like this take to make?
karpathy 6 hours ago|
I'm on subscription but I had Claude add it up: 504M input tokens (90% cached), 7.6M output tokens. 90+% of that was Sonnet calls to label the comments, all of the actual work, the app and deploy etc was ~1M tokens of Opus 5.5, I compacted context once. i.e. very small project by modern standards.
mips_avatar 5 hours ago|||
I wish someone would make a decision model that’s as good as sonnet but like 10-100x cheaper. Because for this project which is a pretty small dataset you’re spending ~$300 on sonnet usage. like jev can probably do this task but it’s not smart enough to reliably be used
gambiting 5 hours ago||
GLM 5.3 Flash is incredibly cheap and imho as good as or better than Sonnet. I used it recently to fix an old server that my family had running serving some websites, and by fix it I mean I got it to log in over ssh, figure out what's running there, copy it out, log in to a brand new droplet on DO, set up a fresh instance of apache with everything patched up to latest, copy that ancient content over, make sure it runs with latest PHP which required several rounds of fixes, optimize the system so it runs on the smallest 512MB droplet, harden the system so that ideally no one ever needs to look at it for another 10 years - it took about an hour, and cost a grand total of 4 american.... _cents_

I use Opus at work since we have a nearly unlimited AI budget, but for personal projects I just use GLM 5.3 and I don't see much difference between that and Opus.

mips_avatar 1 hour ago||
GLM is really good, but sonnet outclasses it. Anthropic really cooked with sonnet 5+
mixtureoftakes 6 hours ago||||
Yeah i'm pretty sure this is doable multiple times on a 20 dollar subscription, just wow
Rapzid 4 hours ago|||
So it's unknowable how much it cost?
senko 4 hours ago||
It'd cost ~$250 via API (ie. paying current API pricing per token).

Source: copy pasted the tokens into a chatbot and told it to figure it out.

Rapzid 4 hours ago||
But hardly anybody pays API pricing and this was made with a sub..
senko 4 hours ago||
So the cost was zero.
Rapzid 23 minutes ago||
Uh, with some fancy accounting..

I think most people could consider the cost as being whatever percentage of the subscription quota was used multiplied by the cost of the subscription.

firefoxd 4 hours ago||
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.

cromka 5 hours ago||
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?

0fflineuser 5 hours ago||
Personnaly I disabled recommendations/watch history/etc... so the youtube homepage is blank, there is absolutely nothing on it.

I first started by moving all my subscriptions to grayjay(where I also disabled the home page), that way I just click the subscriptions tab and there is everything there, you can even create subscription groups if needed.

Then as I had some issues with grayjay desktop(not the mobile app which works great) I then simply moved all my subscriptions to miniflux and newsrafts(which I now rarely use). I use feedflow on android and reminiflux on desktop as I don't like the miniflux frontend. So now if there is a new channel I want to follow I just add the channel rss feed to miniflux/newsraft.

So for apple tv I guess you could use a RSS app but I am not sure the user experience would be great, so using grayjay could be an option as you can stream the video to the TV's but that would require another device (phone/computer) as it's not available on ios/apple tv.

I guess a good starting point would be to simply disable everything in your youtube settings to start off (watch history, recommandations, etc...).

cromka 1 hour ago||
Thanks, much appreciated!
nwmck 5 hours ago|||
I have an extension that blocks all recommendations and forces me to subscribe to the creators I like and search for content myself. Recommendations aren’t optimized for your benefit. Cutting out the recommendations really helps to not get sucked in.
seb1204 3 hours ago||
What's the add-ons name?
nwmck 39 minutes ago||
Focused Youtube
aeriose 5 hours ago||
YouTube constantly cycles the same content + videos it’s so annoying
SamDc73 4 hours ago||
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

m1keil 3 hours ago|
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.

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