About this site

Data sources and method

The source material is associated with HackerTube, Andrej Karpathy’s weekend project from November 2026. The archive spans 2007–2026 and was assembled from roughly 43,000,000 Hacker News comments.

Local data files supply this site. During a build, records are validated, duplicates are rejected, and videos without usable recommendation excerpts are excluded. No Hacker News or YouTube requests are made during the build.

A recommendation count represents distinct recommending commenters in the imported data. It is separate from the source project’s ranking score. Each displayed excerpt links to its original comment; points are shown only when supplied by the source.

Sample excerpts, authors and timestamps were checked against the original Hacker News records during preparation. Video publication dates and durations came from the source project’s public metadata at that time.

Coverage in this build

• 40 videos with recommendation excerpts
• 45 topics represented
• 32 channels represented
• 0 records excluded because no usable quote was available
• 0 fixture records excluded by production mode

Latest entry date: 2026-11-02.

Update frequency

The index’s update cadence is weekly. New entries appear on the newly added page. Updates are prepared offline and require a new static build.

Source attribution

Data is derived from HackerTube and the open-index/hacker-news archive, under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. Hacker News comments remain the work of their respective authors. Video titles and channel names belong to their creators.

Contact

A public contact address has not been provided for this build.

Disclaimer

This independent index is not affiliated with Y Combinator / Hacker News, YouTube, or HackerTube, the project by Andrej Karpathy.

Playback always happens on YouTube, either in an embedded player or through an external link. This site does not host any video files.