# HackerTube

80 Hacker News commenters recommended HackerTube and 12 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Hacker News readers recommend this as a curated YouTube alternative with tech and educational videos and no login. Critics often say its videos are old.

## Why people recommend it

- Better alternative to YouTube for tech (5 comments): "This is nice, like something I would actually use as an alternative to YouTube when I want more tech/educational content." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325322)) "I find it amazing how close the front page of this is to what I actually watch/want to watch on YouTube" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319961)) "the difference between this and the YouTube homepage is astounding" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320230))
- Quick finds of good recommendations (3 comments): "I found an interesting video on your site in less than a minute." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326212)) "I've been looking for something like this for quite a while now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321416)) "So many cool recommendations, a much needed project" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322293))
- No clickbait or influencer videos (2 comments): "100% pure nerd content, no sneaky influencer videos or clickbaity news." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320482)) "Just watching videos without worrying about clickbait." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321890))

## What people warn about

- Videos are old, not recent (2 comments): "This is a great concept, but I want to see more recent videos." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322862)) "Everything is 6 months old or older." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50327091))
- Site or links often broken (2 comments): "HackerTube is 404 and 503ing, so it might not last a day." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328222)) "The download links are slightly broken" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321741))
- Raises rights and harvesting concerns (2 comments): "what I see is an Anthropic model harvesting (again) human output and curation" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323647)) "Does Karpathy have the rights to publish all these under hackertube ?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325722))
- Missing videos and features (2 comments): "It doesn’t contain a YouTube video I linked in a comment a few months ago" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324663)) "which doesn't expose something like this on the front-end AFAICT" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331401))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "HackerTube", https://hackerapproved.com/p/hackertube/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).