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.
Gaming, Lawsuits, YouTube, Defamation
86 points by throw7 1 day ago | 70 comments
Show HN: I made an AI tool to auto-translate and dub YouTube videos (vdspeak.com)
Artificial Intelligence, YouTube, Translation, Video Editing
7 points by nightwishh 4 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Copyright, Piracy, Documentaries, YouTube, Controversy
12 points by gslin 10 days ago | 1 comments
What is PLUS times PLUS? [video] (youtube.com)
Mathematics, YouTube, Education
14 points by weinzierl 10 days ago | 0 comments
The unexpected legend of WD-40 (youtube.com)
History, Products, Marketing, YouTube
18 points by zirkuswurstikus 11 days ago | 7 comments
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.
AppleTV, YouTube, Security, Network Traffic, Privacy
756 points by udev4096 16 days ago | 426 comments
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.
Web Browsers, YouTube, Ad Blocking, Online Video
8 points by josephcsible 16 days ago | 0 comments
AdaFruit FruitJam is a Mac 384K (youtube.com)
Macintosh, Retro Computing, Hardware, YouTube
4 points by todsacerdoti 18 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp (github.com/christian-fei)
MYGA - make youtube great again
YouTube, Frontend, Open Source, Programming, Video
319 points by modmodmod 18 days ago | 237 comments
Saudi Arabia's Megaproject Disaster (Patrick Boyle YouTube) [video] (youtube.com)
Saudi Arabia, Megaprojects, Disaster, YouTube, Videos
4 points by tim333 19 days ago | 1 comments
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
New Releases, Software, API, YouTube
5 points by rob 21 days ago | 1 comments
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.
YouTube, Keyboard Shortcuts, Video Editing, Mac Apps
5 points by tosh 21 days ago | 1 comments
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.
Cybersecurity, YouTube, Malware, Cryptocurrency
11 points by akyuu 23 days ago | 0 comments
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.
YouTube, DRM, Video Streaming, Web Development
410 points by azalemeth 23 days ago | 240 comments
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, Algorithms, Video Content, Internet Culture
14 points by srameshc 24 days ago | 2 comments
YouTube, when the walls fell [video] (youtube.com)
YouTube, Social Media, History, Video
31 points by zdw 25 days ago | 26 comments
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.
London, Crime, Transportation, Media, YouTube
15 points by BerislavLopac 26 days ago | 2 comments
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, Video Content, Data Backup, Technology
68 points by ingve 26 days ago | 18 comments
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)
YouTube, Advertising, Moldova, Streaming Services
8 points by andrei_zol 26 days ago | 11 comments
Vulkan Game Engine Series Written in C – Travis Vroman (youtube.com)
Vulkan, Game Engines, Programming, C Programming, YouTube
21 points by nill0 28 days ago | 1 comments
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, Streaming Services, Pricing, Advertising
48 points by ChrisArchitect 28 days ago | 94 comments
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.
YouTube, Streaming Services, Subscription Models, Advertising
8 points by mfiguiere 28 days ago | 12 comments
New batch of Stanford CS224N videos (youtube.com)
Computer Science, Education, YouTube, Stanford
7 points by jggrnaut 29 days ago | 1 comments
How I use LLMs (Andrej Karpathy) (youtube.com)
AI, Programming, YouTube
15 points by onnnon 34 days ago | 0 comments
Thought Leader (2016) [video] (youtube.com)
Thought Leadership, Video, YouTube
25 points by howsilly 34 days ago | 10 comments
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).
YouTube, Finance, Business, Celebrities, Social Media
4 points by bookofjoe 34 days ago | 0 comments
Philosophy Tube: Elon Musk (2018) [video] (youtube.com)
Philosophy, YouTube, Elon Musk, Video Essays
6 points by agnishom 36 days ago | 0 comments
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.
YouTube, Monopolies, Video Hosting, Business, Competition
40 points by worldofmatthew 41 days ago | 58 comments
A web platform for using YouTube as a drum sequencer (youtubesequencer.com)
Music, Web Development, Creative Projects, YouTube
143 points by eastmountain 44 days ago | 21 comments
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. 🙇‍♀️
YouTube, Privacy, Verification, VTubers
403 points by Tijdreiziger 45 days ago | 274 comments