Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
by Aurornis on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:50AM
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> It makes me yearn for what we lost. I remember when the Internet was all like this page, and it was bloody wonderful.
I remember a very different old internet, where high quality content like these videos was rare, ads were more invasive on a level we have forgotten (remember pop-ups? Pop-under? Having to download and install Real Player and other garbage with ads just to watch anything? Spam overrunning Use et?), and the internet was full of brainrot and crank content from the start.
> I hope we get to a point where hosting becomes functionally free,
We’re discussing this under a list of freely hosted videos.
The blog it’s talking about is hosted on Bearblog, a free ad-free blogging platform.
The software project was built by Opus so quickly that a $20 subscription could have built the whole thing.
Everything is close to free right now. Pay a little bit for YouTube premium and you can watch without ads too.
I think you’re nostalgic for an internet that didn’t exist, while not seeing the amazingness of the world we’re living in.
I remember a very different old internet, where high quality content like these videos was rare, ads were more invasive on a level we have forgotten (remember pop-ups? Pop-under? Having to download and install Real Player and other garbage with ads just to watch anything? Spam overrunning Use et?), and the internet was full of brainrot and crank content from the start.
> I hope we get to a point where hosting becomes functionally free,
We’re discussing this under a list of freely hosted videos.
The blog it’s talking about is hosted on Bearblog, a free ad-free blogging platform.
The software project was built by Opus so quickly that a $20 subscription could have built the whole thing.
Everything is close to free right now. Pay a little bit for YouTube premium and you can watch without ads too.
I think you’re nostalgic for an internet that didn’t exist, while not seeing the amazingness of the world we’re living in.