Hacker News with Generative AI: YouTube

Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst (theguardian.com)
A professional YouTuber in Queensland has been ordered to pay $350,000 plus interest and costs to the former world record score holder for Donkey Kong, after the Brisbane district court found the YouTuber had defamed him “recklessly” with false claims of a link between a lawsuit and another YouTuber’s suicide.
Show HN: I made an AI tool to auto-translate and dub YouTube videos (vdspeak.com)
Director Uses Takedowns to Remove Pirate Bay Docu "TPB-AFK" from YouTube (torrentfreak.com)
In an unexpected turn of events, the director of the Pirate Bay documentary TPB-AFK has sent takedown notices to YouTube requesting its removal. The director states that he sees the streaming portal as a radicalizing platform full of hate. The takedowns are not without controversy, however, as TPB-AFK was published under a Creative Commons license.
What is PLUS times PLUS? [video] (youtube.com)
The unexpected legend of WD-40 (youtube.com)
Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022) (ericdraken.com)
I discovered that putting a man-in-the-middle proxy between my Apple TV and the world lets me decrypt HTTPS traffic. From there, I can read the Protocol Buffer data Google uses to populate YouTube with ads. It is too CPU-intensive to decode Protobuf on the fly, so instead, I found a flaw in the Protobuf format which allows me to reliably change one byte to obliterate ads.
Google not letting YouTube videos play with Opera, FF adblockers. Chrome is slow (neowin.net)
For those who have been running YouTube on a browser for a while with an ad blocker enabled, you must have come across YouTube's banner that stops a video playing in its track and warns users not to use such content blockers.
AdaFruit FruitJam is a Mac 384K (youtube.com)
Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp (github.com/christian-fei)
MYGA - make youtube great again
Saudi Arabia's Megaproject Disaster (Patrick Boyle YouTube) [video] (youtube.com)
YouTube-transcript-API 1.0.0 released (github.com/jdepoix)
Overhaul of the public API to move away from the static methods get_transcript, get_transcripts and list_transcripts
YouTube Keyboard Shortcuts (daringfireball.net)
A few weeks ago when I wrote about Downie — the excellent Mac app for downloading high-quality local copies of web videos — I mentioned that one reason I prefer downloading videos is being able to step through a video frame-by-frame.
YouTubers extorted via copyright strikes to spread malware (bleepingcomputer.com)
Cybercriminals are sending bogus copyright claims to YouTubers to coerce them into promoting malware and cryptocurrency miners on their videos.
YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients (github.com/yt-dlp)
We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.
The world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithm (bbc.com)
There's a secret side of YouTube, just beyond the guiding hand of the algorithm – and it’s nothing like what you know. The vast majority of YouTube's estimated 14.8 billion videos have almost never been seen. Until now.
YouTube, when the walls fell [video] (youtube.com)
Kitchen foil and Algerian markets: When your phone is stolen in London (londoncentric.media)
There was a lot of coverage of this week’s London Centric story on Lime bike safety, with ITV London running the reporting on its evening bulletins and national news outlets following it up. London Centric’s own documentary about the subject is now available to view on YouTube.
YouTube scares me; I need RAID 1 for my video content (jeffgeerling.com)
I've published 500 videos in 18 years on my YouTube channel.
YouTube Forces Ads in Moldova Without Offering Premium as an Option (ycombinator.com)
Until March 2024, users in Moldova enjoyed an ad-free experience on YouTube. However, in March 2024, YouTube began showing intrusive ads in the region. Despite this change, YouTube Premium — the service that allows users to remove ads — remains completely unavailable in Moldova. (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365)
Vulkan Game Engine Series Written in C – Travis Vroman (youtube.com)
YouTube Premium Lite: Ad-Free Viewing for $7.99/Month (youtube)
Today we'll begin expanding our Premium Lite pilot to users in the US. Premium Lite gives viewers a new, more affordable way to enjoy most videos on YouTube ad-free for $7.99 per month. In the coming weeks, we'll also make Premium Lite available to all users in our current pilot countries - Thailand, Germany, and Australia.
YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription (techcrunch.com)
YouTube on Wednesday announced a new premium subscription tier called Premium Lite, which will users to watch “most” videos ad-free for $7.99 per month.
New batch of Stanford CS224N videos (youtube.com)
How I use LLMs (Andrej Karpathy) (youtube.com)
Thought Leader (2016) [video] (youtube.com)
YouTube star MrBeast planning investment round that could value company at $5B (theguardian.com)
The world’s biggest YouTube star, MrBeast, is planning to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in a move that would reportedly value his company at roughly $5bn (£3.9bn).
Philosophy Tube: Elon Musk (2018) [video] (youtube.com)
Thinking About Why YouTube Is a Monopoly (worldofmatthew.com)
Many, including myself, have long seen YouTube as a Monopoly that strangles the ability for rivals with its “too good to be true” offer. That being free video hosting forever even if your video gets zero traffic with unlimited storage and good redundancy.
A web platform for using YouTube as a drum sequencer (youtubesequencer.com)
YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info (reddit.com)
Hello Reddit. My name is Ebi. I'm an independent VTuber from the UK, and I really need your help. 🙇‍♀️