About HackerTube AI

6,386 YouTube videos that Hacker News commenters keep recommending to each other, with a personal layer on top.

Where the videos come from

The catalogue is the open HackerTube dataset, created for hackertube.org, which was prompted into existence by Andrej Karpathy and built by Claude. It was made by reading every Hacker News comment from 2007 to 2026, keeping videos that at least three different people recommended in at least three different months, and having Claude label each comment and write each video card. We removed videos that are now deleted, private or not embeddable.

What we add

Google sign-in, sync, YouTube connect, Takeout history import, and a personal feed ranked by similarity to what you like, still drawn only from HN-recommended videos.

Credits and licence

Dataset by HackerTube (hackertube.org), ODC-By 1.0, derived from the open-index/hacker-news archive. Hacker News data is provided by Y Combinator; comments remain the work of their authors. Video titles and channel names belong to their creators. Labels and summaries were written by an AI model and may contain errors.

HackerTube AI is an independent project by Evolo Pty Ltd. It is not affiliated with hackertube.org, Andrej Karpathy, Hacker News, Y Combinator, YouTube or Google.