HackerTube clean video browsing tool
The gist
Andrej Karpathy built HackerTube from 6,454 videos recommended in Hacker News comments.
The site skips YouTube's feed and login, so its picks reflect one community's taste.
How it unfolded
- Oct 31, 2026Karpathy published a blog post announcing HackerTube, built from videos recommended in Hacker News comments.
- Oct 31, 2026He said he used Claude Code with Opus 5.5 at Medium effort and finished in about two hours, handling the YouTube API key, VPS and domain himself.
- Oct 31, 2026He said the pipeline filtered 43M Hacker News comments down to 40K recommending a video, yielding 6,454 videos from 2007-2026 across 150 topics.
Key terms
- Hacker News
- A social news website focused on computer science and entrepreneurship, run by Y Combinator.
- API key
- A secret unique identifier used to authenticate and authorize a user, developer, or program calling an API.
- VPS
- A virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting company.
Source: Wikipedia