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Andrej Karpathy introduces HackerTube, built from recurring HN video recommendations
- Who
- Andrej Karpathy
- What
- built HackerTube, filtering 43 million Hacker News comments to identify 6,454 recommended videos
- Quote
Weekend hack: HackerTube.
What happened
Weekend hack: HackerTube. Annoyed with YouTube's recommendations, Andrej Karpathy had Claude filter 43M comments over 20 years of HN down to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. He calls it a significantly better viewing experience, built in ~2 hours with Opus 5.5: - Excellent
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See the full storyAndrej Karpathy Builds HackerTube From Recurring Hacker News Video RecommendationsWeekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
https://t.co/xULTGY6VhH
- Excellent https://t.co/QRq80bJo4o
The story so far
Andrej Karpathy introduced HackerTube, a weekend project he said he built by having Claude filter 43 million Hacker News comments spanning 20 years into 6,454 videos that users repeatedly recommended. Karpathy said frustration with YouTube’s recommendations prompted the project, which he built in about two hours using Opus 5.5. He described HackerTube as a significantly better viewing experience.
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