----------------🛠️ Tool===================HackerTube (hackertube.org) is a video discovery site built by Karpathy as a c...

----------------🛠️ Tool===================HackerTube (hackertube.org) is a video discovery site built by Karpathy as a counterweight to the YouTube recommendation feed. Instead of algorithmic ranking, it surfaces videos that were positively recommended in Hacker News comment threads, on the assumption that HN commenters are a reasonable quality filter for technical and long-form content.How it was assembledThe build is described in the author's blog post. Claude Code (desktop app, Opus 5.5 at medium effort) was tasked with creating a YouTube clone from videos recommended on Hacker News. The pipeline:1. Download the comment corpus of Hacker News.2. Filter the comments, running Sonnet over them inside a Claude Code Workflow.3. Remove spam and narrow everything down to roughly 40K comments that recommend a YouTube video.4. Reduce to 6,454 unique videos spanning 2007 through 2026 across 150 topics.5. Wrap the dataset in a YouTube-style UI, register a domain, and deploy to a VPS.The author ...

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