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.
czernobog 2 hours ago||
this looks great and I love how snappy it is.. Youtube feels so slow compared to this
mirekrusin 8 hours ago||
No login/account? What a blasphemy. Feel in love from the first site.
karpathy 8 hours ago||
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swinglock 6 hours ago||
It makes me want to login in, to share the history and recommendations between screens. I think a neat way to do that would be to authenticate with some other service that can just store and sync an encrypted blob that is the Local Storage of the site. That could be fairly private and doesn't put any load on the first site, it wouldn't need accounts. This could be a browser feature but then it doesn't work between browsers.
mancerayder 7 hours ago||
Amazing! If only it would appear on my AppleTV...
pkal 8 hours ago||
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 9 hours ago||
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 9 hours ago|
What is a 50% thumbnail?
fasterik 9 hours ago|
I'd never heard this term either, but I'm assuming it means that if the video is N frames long, it uses frame N/2 as the thumbnail.
karpathy 9 hours ago||
correct. it means the thumbnail is sourced from exactly halfway in the video, so you get a representative frame.
karpathy 9 hours ago|||
The average thumbnail on YouTube these days is some guy looking like HOLY SHIT, tearing his hair in amazement looking at something with an arrow pointing at some detail. "TOP 10 XYZ. YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE #6". Like and subscribe. Utterly repulsive.
i'd prefer to see the original thumbnail though so that i can recognize the video if i have seen it on youtube already. i also expect that the kind of videos that tend to be recommended on HN are less prone to have clickbait thumbnails.
karpathy 7 hours ago||
configurable in the Settings! (see the menu on the left banner)