Karpathy bygger HackerTube: YouTube-klon baserad på Hacker News-rekommendationer
2026-11-01 • Kategori: ai_devtools
TL;DR: Karpathy har byggt en YouTube-klon kallad HackerTube, driven av AI och baserad på videorekommendationer från Hacker News, vilket resulterar i en renare och mer kuraterad upplevelse.
karpathy Home Blog 31 Oct, 2026 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. So this morning (Saturday) I took a hold of my Opus 5.5 and gave it the task: Let's write our own YouTube clone based on whatever videos have been recommended on Hacker News. And Opus came back with: hackertube.org! Opus downloaded all comments of HackerNews, filtered them, ran Sonnet over them in a Workflow (Claude Code feature), got rid of spam, and narrowed everything down to 40K comments recommending a YouTube video. In total, we get 6,454 YouTube videos that have been recommended by a few people on HN from 2007-2026 across 150 topics. Then we wrap it up in a YouTube UI, get a domain, push to a VPS, secure, harden, optimize and voila! HackerTube: Contains quality content Uses the 50% thumbnail instead of the uploaded thumbnail Custom and good ForYou recommendations without any user accounts, storing state in local browser session Keyboard shortcuts Export of the site's data available to give to your agent to easily create your own version This takes ~2 hours now. I can breathe again. Thank you Opus 5.5 <3. EDIT: A little bit more on my process. I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac). I use Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I don't actually do anything resembling traditional engineering anymore (read/write code, run commands in a terminal, or etc.), I only talk to Claude and have it do everything. In this case, the only "manual work" I did was: 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box and 3) I bought the domain name. I worked on this in between Claude's actual work so it still feels a little bit like team work :) Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, deploy, secure, harden and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.