Andrej Karpathy Launches HackerTube, a Claude-Curated YouTube Alternative Built From Hacker News Comments

AI News Digest — November 1, 2026

🎬 Karpathy got tired of the YouTube slop – so he built his own in ~2 hours with Claude Opus 5.5Andrej Karpathys late-Friday YouTube session ended in what he calls an enshittified wall of slop – so Saturday morning he pointed Claude Opus 5.5 at the problem: build a YouTube clone from videos recommended on Hacker News. Opus came back with hackertube.org: every HN comment since 2007 scanned, down to 40K video-recommending comments, yielding 6,454 …

Karpathy built a YouTube alternative from Hacker News comments in one weekend

HackerTube at hackertube.org parsed every Hacker News comment back to 2007, keeping videos people had vouched for in threads. The site has a For You style feed that needs no login, keeps state in the browser, and lets users export their data and run their own instance.

Andrej Karpathy Launches HackerTube With 6,454-Video Catalog

The catalog draws on 39,834 Hacker News comments, groups videos into 150 topics and uses Claude models to sort recommendations.

Andrej Karpathy launches HackerTube, a Claude-curated YouTube alternative built from Hacker News comments

HackerTube's community-driven curation and privacy-focused design challenge traditional content platforms, highlighting AI's transformative role.