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HackerTube: A YouTube alternative built from Hacker News recommended videos
Key points
- HackerTube created using AI to curate videos from Hacker News.
- Platform features 6,454 videos across 150 topics.
- Offers custom recommendations without user accounts.
- Uses 50% thumbnail, keyboard shortcuts, and data export.
- HackerBooks is a new website for books mentioned on Hacker News.
- HackerBooks indexes 16,500 books mentioned since 2007.
- Each book entry on HackerBooks links to original Hacker News comments.
- Claude Opus 5.5 built HackerBooks, including the data pipeline and site.
- Wikihack is a new web application for Wikipedia articles mentioned on Hacker News.
- Wikihack allows users to view articles by frequency, recency, or weighted random selection.
- Wikihack shows where articles were submitted or mentioned in comments.
- Wikihack's 'Rising' section ranks articles from the past 12 months.
- Wikihack's entire site is served only through the frontend.
Project Origin and Motivation
The creator developed HackerTube out of dissatisfaction with YouTube's recommendation algorithm and content quality. The goal was to build a video platform featuring content curated by the Hacker News community, which is perceived as higher quality.
Development Process
The project utilized an AI model, Opus 5.5, to process Hacker News comments. The AI filtered approximately 40,000 comments that recommended YouTube videos, removing spam and low-quality content. This process resulted in a dataset of 6,454 YouTube videos, spanning 150 topics, collected from 2007 to 2026.
The curated videos were then integrated into a custom YouTube-like user interface. The entire development, including domain acquisition, VPS deployment, security, and optimization, reportedly took about two hours.
Key Features of HackerTube
HackerTube focuses on providing quality content, distinguishing itself from mainstream platforms. It uses a 50% thumbnail for videos instead of the uploaded thumbnail. The platform offers custom "For You" recommendations without requiring user accounts, storing state in local browser sessions. It also includes keyboard shortcuts and allows for the export of site data.
Updates
- Wikihack is a new web application for Wikipedia articles mentioned on Hacker News.
- Wikihack allows users to view articles by frequency, recency, or weighted random selection.
- Wikihack shows where articles were submitted or mentioned in comments.
- Wikihack's 'Rising' section ranks articles from the past 12 months.
- Wikihack's entire site is served only through the frontend.
- HackerBooks is a new website for books mentioned on Hacker News.
- HackerBooks indexes 16,500 books mentioned since 2007.
- Each book entry on HackerBooks links to original Hacker News comments.
- Claude Opus 5.5 built HackerBooks, including the data pipeline and site.
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How outlets covered it
Wikihack, a new web application, has launched, providing a scrollable feed of Wikipedia articles mentioned on Hacker News. The platform scrapes and ranks Wikipedia mentions from Hacker News, allowing users to view articles by frequency, recency, or a weighted random selection.
A new website, HackerBooks, has launched, indexing approximately 16,500 books mentioned at least twice by Hacker News commenters since 2007. Each book entry links back to the original comments, and the data is available for download.
A developer created HackerTube, a YouTube-like platform populated exclusively by videos recommended on Hacker News. The project used an AI model to filter and curate 6,454 videos from 40,000 Hacker News comments, aiming to provide a higher-quality content experience.