Karpathy builds HackerTube from Hacker News video recommendations
Original title: HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Karpathy uses AI to create a YouTube clone based solely on videos recommended on Hacker News.
Andrej Karpathy was annoyed by YouTube's low-quality recommendations and built HackerTube instead. He fed Hacker News comments into AI models to filter spam and extract video links, yielding 6,454 videos from 2007-2026 across 150 topics. The site wraps them in a clean YouTube-like interface with no accounts required.
- 6,454 videos extracted from HN comments
- 150 topics covered
- Uses 50% thumbnails and custom recommendations
- Data export available for local copies
- Built in roughly two hours using AI assistance
- Products
- HackerTube
- Organizations
- Andrej Karpathy
From the original article
1 min read at karpathy.bearblog.dev
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. Insanely exaggerated thumbnails, dumb recommendations of the same tired topics, truly terrible idiocracy-grade content. I'm sure this algorithm works well for the median person on the internet, but it definitely does not work for me.
By karpathy · karpathy.bearblog.dev
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