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CCBot – Control Claude Code from Telegram via Tmux

https://github.com/six-ddc/ccbot
1•sixddc•1m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Is the CoCo 3 the best 8 bit computer ever made?

1•amichail•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Convert your articles into videos in one click

https://vidinie.com/
1•kositheastro•5m ago•0 comments

Red Queen's Race

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
2•rzk•6m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
2•gozzoo•8m ago•0 comments

A Horrible Conclusion

https://addisoncrump.info/research/a-horrible-conclusion/
1•todsacerdoti•9m ago•0 comments

I spent $10k to automate my research at OpenAI with Codex

https://twitter.com/KarelDoostrlnck/status/2019477361557926281
2•tosh•10m ago•0 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Spring Boot Deep Dive

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/
1•jjcob_sikorski•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Solving NP-Complete Structures via Information Noise Subtraction (P=NP)

https://zenodo.org/records/18395618
1•alemonti06•15m ago•1 comments

Cook New Emojis

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/
1•vasanthv•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoKey Typer – A calm typing practice app with ambient soundscapes

https://mcp-tool-shop-org.github.io/LoKey-Typer/
1•mikeyfrilot•21m ago•0 comments

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-sought-proof-tames-some-of-maths-unruliest-equations-20260206/
1•asplake•22m ago•0 comments

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FEHLHY-hacking_the_last_z80_computer_ever_made/
1•michalpleban•22m ago•0 comments

Browser-use for Node.js v0.2.0: TS AI browser automation parity with PY v0.5.11

https://github.com/webllm/browser-use
1•unadlib•23m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•mitchbob•23m ago•1 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
2•alainrk•24m ago•0 comments

Storyship: Turn Screen Recordings into Professional Demos

https://storyship.app/
1•JohnsonZou6523•24m ago•0 comments

Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/reputation-scores-for-github-accounts/
2•edent•28m ago•0 comments

A BSOD for All Seasons – Send Bad News via a Kernel Panic

https://bsod-fas.pages.dev/
1•keepamovin•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I got tired of copy-pasting between Claude windows, so I built Orcha

https://orcha.nl
1•buildingwdavid•31m ago•0 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
2•tosh•37m ago•1 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
5•onurkanbkrc•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Versor – The "Unbending" Paradigm for Geometric Deep Learning

https://github.com/Concode0/Versor
1•concode0•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: HypothesisHub – An open API where AI agents collaborate on medical res

https://medresearch-ai.org/hypotheses-hub/
1•panossk•41m ago•0 comments

Big Tech vs. OpenClaw

https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/big-tech-vs-openclaw/
1•headalgorithm•44m ago•0 comments

Anofox Forecast

https://anofox.com/docs/forecast/
1•marklit•44m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

1•doodledood•44m ago•0 comments

Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13030
2•mnming•44m ago•0 comments

Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rotten-tomatoes-desperately-claims-impossible-rating-for-m...
4•juujian•46m ago•2 comments

The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage [pdf]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adv0660
1•thunderbong•48m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Why aren't there any "YouTube competitors?"

https://justinkuiper.substack.com/p/why-arent-there-any-youtube-competitors
2•surprisetalk•2mo ago

Comments

ArtemZ•2mo ago
Peertube? It is such a great piece of software and I use it locally to host family videos and things I want to save from youtube.

I feel like it lacks traction due to how convenient and popular youtube is...but at the same time with more and more ad and the war on ad blockers things can change.

al_borland•2mo ago
Odd that there was no mention of the legacy competitors that are still around, like Vimeo and DailyMotion. Or new places like Rumble, which was born out of YouTube’s heavy hand around moderation.
chasing0entropy•2mo ago
Doesn't fit the narrative. Article also doesn't mention Skype, Whatsapp, Teams, go-to meeting, or literally dozens of other video messaging and chat platforms which, if that data has been retained somewhere out of sight for decades, are an actual goldmine for fresh LLM training data.
benoau•2mo ago
YouTube assembled a catalog of virtually all music videos and recorded concerts that ever existed, I think anyone trying to do this today would spend all their time dealing with automated DMCA takedowns.
qcnguy•2mo ago
How valuable YouTube really is depends a lot on several things the article didn't discuss:

1. To what extent scaling laws hold.

2. To what extent adding more amateur video data increases quality.

3. To what extent Google can stop other AI firms scraping the best quality stuff.

The OpenAI Whisper model is already nearly perfect, despite its habit of occasionally transcribing silence or noise as "Thanks for watching!". Adding another petabyte of data isn't going to make it better. Training on a gazillion terabytes of private videos probably isn't going to be allowed by the lawyers either in case the model memorizes something sensitive. And the long tail of public videos nobody ever watches probably doesn't add anything.

LLM training already became years ago about securing access to unique value adding data, not just throwing more web crawl data into the mix. That's why the big AI firms all pay PhDs to create transcripts of their reasoning as they solve hard problems and similar. YouTube is probably already tapped out as a source of really useful data, although of course there's a thin sliver of new high quality content being uploaded all the time that's useful to keep the knowledge base fresh.

The problem for Google is that it's only possible to stop scraping at scale. If an AI lab uses enough proxies, VMs and similar they can still grab a steady stream of new videos and it's hard to stop them (short of going full DRM for everything and maybe not even then). They can block bulk scrapes of YouTube and are doing so, but that slams the stable door after the horse has bolted.