Karpathy Built HackerTube, A YouTube Feed Picked From 20 Years Of Hacker News

Karpathy Built HackerTube, A YouTube Feed Picked From 20 Years Of Hacker News

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Karpathy Built HackerTube, A YouTube Feed Picked From 20 Years Of Hacker News

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Karpathy's HackerTube uses Claude to turn 43M Hacker News comments into a 6,454-video recommendation site.

  • 01. 43M HN comments filtered to 6,454 recommended videos
  • 02. No login; built in about two hours with Opus 5.5 in Claude Code
Andrej Karpathy built HackerTube after getting annoyed with YouTube's recommendations. Claude filtered 43 million Hacker News comments from 20 years down to 6,454 videos people keep recommending. No login, thumbnails taken from mid-video frames, and the underlying data is one download you can point your own Claude at. He says it took about two hours with Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, including deploying and securing the server.