MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-06 06:09:42+00:00
Unfortunately there's a black-hole-like gravitational inescapability from Youtube due to its network effects over its lifetime. Hopefully this can be slowly and eventually counteracted.

In the meantime, there's Invidious, LibreTube, NewPipe, Skytube, ReVanced and probably a few others that can be used as protest. In addition to browser extensions that manage to filter out YT ads. One of my favourites is iSponsorBlockTV which, when casting to a TV, automatically skips ads once the button is enabled, and mutes the ad in the meantime.

None of these answer your question, but your question has a number of aspects. Nothing can replace Youtube one for one if you're counting all of its "things" - and this is mentioned in the article.

There are numerous alternatives to certain parts of Youtube which are likely easily found via search or AI query: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/list-some-alternatives-to-y...
by politelemon | 2025-06-06 06:11:03+00:00
Based on my observations over the past decade of similar stories on HN, nothing will change, the squeeze will simply continue.

It's because we only hear of incidents in isolation from each other when the giants that abuse their platforms - most often the stories are from apple, google, amazon - take something down that didn't suit their revenue streams even if it's by vague interpretations AND someone with enough of a social presence has their incident heard.

The rest of us, the unwashed users of the platform, do not hear about it or act upon it en masse. We'll occasionally see a post like this on HN or Reddit, shake our heads and call it a shame, there need to be alternatives and so on, then go right back into those platforms and forget that something happened but a few months later
by defrost | 2025-06-06 06:11:34+00:00
Assuming good faith on Jeff's part:

In fact, in my own house, for multiple decades, I've purchased physical media (CDs, DVDs, and more recently, Blu-Rays), and only have legally-acquired content on my NAS.

is contrary to your bold assertion:

> there are so many screenshots that indicate he is indulging in his own piracy activities.

It's unclear to me how to differentiate twixt pirated movies and movies ripped from legally purchased BluRays and DVDs .. on the basis of a Kodi screenshot with folder art sourced from theTVDB, IMDB, and theMovieDB (also fanart, etc sites).
by bigyabai | 2025-06-06 06:12:23+00:00
"We kill people based on metadata." - National Security Agency Gen. Michael Hayden

Raw data with time-series significance is their absolute favorite. You might argue something like Google Maps data is "obfuscated by virtue of its banality" until you catch the right person in the wrong place. ChatGPT sessions are the same way, and it's going to be fed into aggregate surveillance systems in the way modern telecom and advertiser data is.
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-06-06 06:14:02+00:00
This is incorrect. As someone who has had the opportunity to work in several highly=regulated industries, companies do not want to hold onto extra data about you that they don’t have to unless their business is selling that data.

OpenAI already has a business, and not one they want to violate by having a massive amount of customer data stolen if they get hacked.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-06 06:14:36+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#Circumvention_of_DVD_c...

Software tagged as "no longer available" is due to New York federal court by AACS group legal action in later March, 2014.[12] Remaining existing US software have disabled the decrypt / unencrypted / de-lock feature that allows bypass the Blu-ray disc protections. As from October, 2014 ... able to decrypt Blu-ray disc protection as being are freeware applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_ripper#Disabling_DRM

You can pretend to ignore the DMCA if you want, but I cannot believe that all of your DVDs and Blu-rays were unencrypted and unencumbered by any DRM before your ripping software used leaked/cracked keys to decrypt them and reassemble them without it.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-06-06 06:15:13+00:00
This isn't a 'Show HN'. It's not my app. It just seems to be the best way for me to transfer large files between my Pixel and my iPad.

BTW the GitHub repo has an issue about the name being bad for discoverability. But I don't think the app is being actively developed. Hopefully it will continue to work in future iOS versions.
by genewitch | 2025-06-06 06:16:47+00:00
There's peertube and Pixelfed and someone was working on an activitypub version of Instagram, but really it's like Pixelfed but more ergonomic for video.

So the next stage, ideally, would be everyone kinda sharing hosting responsibilities, and if you like a creator, you just follow them. This has the benefit of possibly caching/mirroring all the videos, too. My Fediverse server was chewing through disk, one of the reasons I shut it down - but I was following 1400 news and journalist accounts, plus my ~100 or so gang of idiots. I was nearing 1TB on disk after about 16 months on my essentially single user instance.

I exported my follows and moved to an acquaintance's server and imported, the owner doesn't even blink. Who knows what they've got going for storage.

Anyhow if you don't need to follow 1500 people, this becomes tractable. If it gets popular, someone will post how to cron the multimedia stuff to compress it as it ages, moving it to cold storage, whatever.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-06-06 06:18:38+00:00
Yes, sometimes -- I think TikTok's content/goals are a bit different than YouTube.

TikTok is a direct competitor to YouTube Shorts, but not YouTube as a whole -- YouTube also competes with Netflix and surprisingly paid course sites (did you know YouTube has courses?)

I don't think it's as easy as thinking TikTok will unseat YouTube. Also, I personally think TikTok's... approach is a bit hard to sustain. Just like Facebook's approach of initially showing you a feed of friends activities, but morphed into something else over time (some of that is not FB's fault, humans have certain behaviors that can be toxic all on their own).
by lmeyerov | 2025-06-06 06:18:47+00:00
> But why? In the world you're positing where these queries are sold at negative margins and don't provide any other tangible benefit (i.e. cannot be used for training), the provider would be even better off not serving those queries. Or, more likely, they'd raise prices such that this traffic has positive margins, and they receive just enough for optimal batching. ... But scale from these specific workloads is only valuable because these workloads are already profitable

I'm disputing this two-fold:

- Software tricks like batching and hardware like ASICs mean what is negative/neutral for a small or unoptimized provider is eventually positive for a large, optimized provider. You keep claiming they cannot do this with positive margin some reason, or only if already profitable, but those are unsubstantiated claims. Conversely, I'm giving classic engineering principles why they can keep driving down their COGS to flip to profitability as long as they have capital and scale. This isn't selling $1 for $0.90 because there is a long way to go before their COGS are primarily constrained by the price of electricity and sand. Instead of refuting this... You just keep positing that it's inherently negative margin.

In a world where inference consumption just keeps going up, they can keep pushing the technology advantage and creating even a slight positive margin goes far. This is the classic engineering variant of buttoning margins before an IPO: if they haven't yet, it's probably because they are intentionally prioritizing market share growth for engineering focus vs cost cutting.

- You are hyper fixated on tokens, and not that owning a large % of distribution lets them sell other things . Eg, instead of responding to my point 2 here, you are again talking about token margin. Apple doesn't have to make money on transistors when they have a 30% tax on most app spend in the US.
by mmooss | 2025-06-06 06:20:34+00:00
The argument that it's doxxing was an attempt to undermine journalism.

The NYT's job is to uncover information that powerful people don't want uncovered, in the public interest. If someone is wielding significant influence anonymously, it's valuable to the public to know who it is.

Doxxing is publishing as much info as possible to harm vulnerable people. The NYT didn't publish Alexander's home address, cell number, credit cards, and pictures of their kids, and encourage people to track Alexander down.
by phire | 2025-06-06 06:21:08+00:00
I find it interesting that "rooted" and "jailbroken" have become synonymous with "exploited" in many peoples minds.

But they have very explicit meanings. Rooted means you have access to the root account (uid=1), and usually only applies to devices where you already have userspace access.

And the term "jailbreak" came along because the first iPhones exposed access to the media folder for iTunes sync over USB, and that folder was in a "chroot jail". (And I think that sync process was already running as root?)

The first iPhone jailbreak was literally using the sync protocol to create a symlink to "../../../". After apple blocked creating symlinks over sync, the next exploit had a ROP chain payload that simply created that same symlink, allowing previous tools to work. It wasn't until later that we got the first JailbreakMe, which didn't just create the symlink for breaking out of the jail, it would bootstrap a full homebrew experience.

And that complete package became standard for the "jailbreak" experience, establishing the now incorrect terminology.
by bsder | 2025-06-06 06:22:13+00:00
> Is it even possible at this point given that YouTube garners so many eyeballs and is just so easy?

The big problem is that someone will download your video and upload it to YouTube if you do not. Often while monetizing it until you stomp on them.

The only things that will break YouTube hegemony (spelled that hegemoney originally ... talk about a typo) are either an anti-trust action or a successful copyright infringement lawsuit from someone other than a BigCorp.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-06-06 06:23:49+00:00
> Based on my observations over the past decade of similar stories on HN, nothing will change, the squeeze will simply continue.

I do agree here, but sometimes (let's say 10% of the time? less?) the squeeze does not continue -- see Apple. Perplexity/ChatGPT vs Google search right now.

> The rest of us, the unwashed users of the platform, do not hear about it or act upon it en masse. We'll occasionally see a post like this on HN or Reddit, shake our heads and call it a shame, there need to be alternatives and so on, then go right back into those platforms and forget that something happened but a few months later

Yup, wish I could add "- posted from Chrome browser" to my own response here but I use Firefox. I'm still going to watch YouTube.

I think the thing that might bring hope is that Google/YouTube doesn't actualy own the new paradigm of AI -- I can very much imagine a world where people just ask for videos/scroll through them, and YouTube isn't the site they do it on (in fact they don't do it on a "site", per say).

But then again, that's really calling for the death/dramatic reduction of the open/surfable internet. Is that what it takes?
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-06-06 06:25:00+00:00
And yet, they make the best damn computers out there with hardware second to none, make the single best consumer-level AI computer, are better at product design than basically anyone in the world, and have defined at least four different product categories, while donating billions of dollars to truly charitable causes and being more clearly committed to sustainability than any of their other large tech giants.

I think I can handle their stance on software,
by crlapples | 2025-06-06 06:26:01+00:00
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by throw1235435 | 2025-06-06 06:27:03+00:00
Pretty much. Everything is about prompt now. Its either "You aren't prompting right", or "Need to prompt harder/more accurately/etc". The only skill that matters now seems to be using a paid vendor product (pick your favorite proprietary AI chatbot) - which isn't really a long term skill at all nor really all that technical.

Whether its true or not it is besides the point - its getting kind of boring and it seems to be drowning everything else. It feels at least from the outside like a profession that used to require intelligence/skill, and something creative problem solving just went downhill fast. The anti-SWE crowd (e.g VC's, AI devs, CEO's, etc) seems to be winning the argument at the moment as to what the future will bring in these forums. Every podcast I hear its always software engineering that is mentioned as the industry to be disrupted away.

Who would of thought the job of the future only 5 years ago would be the first to go? Hope I'm wrong, but it seems the AI crowd's main target atm.
by aquariusDue | 2025-06-06 06:29:00+00:00
I recommend people to peruse GrokTiddlyWiki[0] which guides you through setting up TiddlyWiki as a personal knowledgebase similar to Obsidian and also implementing a spaced repetition system, it really is an exhaustive resource and it's true to its title. The author works at RemNote and is really passionate in general I'd say. He has his own digital garden called Mosaic Muse[2] built upon TiddlyWiki.

At the same time there is TiddlyPWA[1] which helps with syncing and some other stuff out of the box.

Now a theme you might be noticing is that there are distributions of TiddlyWiki and various ways to install and use it, it's similar to Emacs and Neovim in this regard.

That being said I was into it for a while and while it's great and even more flexible than most PKM software it takes a certain kind of tolerance for "jank" (as in eurogame jank) due to TiddlyWiki being a living system much more similar to Emacs, in that regard Obsidian and ZimWiki are practically related compared to TiddlyWiki. Because of this the sky and the time you're willing to put in are the limits for TiddlyWiki, it's one of the things where it can be both a canvas for your creativity and your second brain (or flavor of the month term for off-loading some cognitive burden to a system).

Also the community[3] is really helpful over on their forums, I encourage people to reach out if they need help because a bare TiddlyWiki is pretty confusing.

Oh and don't be worried about system lock-in or something like that, if you give it a try like I did it's easy to migrate[4] your notes/tiddlers afterwards.

To be clear, I went through a phase of trying different systems and org-mode for Emacs remains good enough albeit with its own troubles. Between them I prefer the mobile experience of TiddlyWiki but Emacs and respectively org-mode leads to easier and faster capture (of thoughts, bookmarks, todos).

[0] https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/

[1] https://tiddly.packett.cool/

[2] https://mosmu.se/

[3] https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/

[4] https://tiddlywiki.com/static/How%2520to%2520export%2520tidd...
by lmeyerov | 2025-06-06 06:29:28+00:00
Maybe this is the disconnect for the token side: you seem to think they can't keep improving the margin to reach profitability. They are static and it will just get worse, not better.

I think deepseek instead just showed they haven't really bothered yet. They rather focus on growing, and capital is cheap enough for these firms that optimizing margins is relatively distracting. Obviously they do optimize, but probably not at the expense of velocity and growth.

And if they do seriously want to tackle margins, they should pull a groq/Google and go aggressively deep. Ex: fab something. Which... They do indeed fund raise on.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-06-06 06:29:38+00:00
> There's peertube and Pixelfed and someone was working on an activitypub version of Instagram, but really it's like Pixelfed but more ergonomic for video.

> it's like Pixelfed but more ergonomic for video.

This is a huge problem IMO. Just like Mastodon/Bluesky (which seems to be working recently) and all these other things, the tech and experience need to be SUPER easy. I mean as-easy-or-easier than YouTube, etc for people to switch en masse.

> So the next stage, ideally, would be everyone kinda sharing hosting responsibilities, and if you like a creator, you just follow them. This has the benefit of possibly caching/mirroring all the videos, too. My Fediverse server was chewing through disk, one of the reasons I shut it down - but I was following 1400 news and journalist accounts, plus my ~100 or so gang of idiots. I was nearing 1TB on disk after about 16 months on my essentially single user instance.

Yeah the problem is people won't do this/can't be expected to do this, unless it's drop dead easy.

Really appreciate hearing about your point on the scaling curve for this tech though, clearly the tech has come really far, that sounds like much more than the average person and "only" 1TB and a single server is quite nice.

The best ever approach I have seen to this is PopcornTime. It took the world by storm (and IIRC people still use it/ it still exists in some form, they're just lower profile now), and it worked better the more people used it, because torrents (aka, the technology being a mature, perfect match for the usecase).

> I exported my follows and moved to an acquaintance's server and imported, the owner doesn't even blink. Who knows what they've got going for storage. > > Anyhow if you don't need to follow 1500 people, this becomes tractable. If it gets popular, someone will post how to cron the multimedia stuff to compress it as it ages, moving it to cold storage, whatever.

I could see this working if that acquaintance got paid for this. Tying money as an incentive to things is sometimes bad/not what you want, but having people think of computers and compute as an asset/tool for them to use is a step in the right direction IMO.

I'm not a crypto person (kind of wish I was, 10 years ago), but Filecoin was really interesting originally to me because it just made sense. The marketplace of data storage seems like something that could be easily democratized in this way (no need for the crypto bits, but the ease of payment was a legitimate use IMO).
by stefs | 2025-06-06 06:29:45+00:00
my personal opinion is that the intelligence ceiling scales with the complexity of the environment it operates in. this means that we could theoretically get something resembling AGI in a simulated environment complex enough. in practice, simulating an environment complex enough would be extremely inefficient compared to just using the (computationally free) real physical world.

also, the intelligence itself is shaped by the environment it operates in, so it would turn out to be more human-like the closer its operating environment is to our human physical world. this also means intelligences not trained in our physical world (or a convincingly close simulation of it) won't be human-like, but rather a very alien. moreover, i'm not sure that even an intelligence trained in the physical world with human-like sensory inputs will necessarily turn out human-like. there might be a case for convergent evolution (i.e. mammalian intelligence to be global optimum-ish), but i think human intelligence will only have a chance to emerge if everything, from the operating environment to the machine body and neural structure will resemble a human to the point where there is no difference in the human and the machine at all.
by genewitch | 2025-06-06 06:30:51+00:00
I have so many dvds... so many. i have 5 Vaultz cases full, plus a bunch of 4 per flipped page "CD wallets" that friends have given me over the years. Plus box sets of entire runs of stuff like NYPD Blue, Quantum Leap, Batman, Ghostbusters, Law and Order, Buffy, Firefly, Seinfeld... I must have well over 1000 dvds by this point, and maybe 1/4th are on my NAS and available through VLC on amazon firestick, android, whatever. I got sick of kodi taking 5+ minutes to boot and be ready to play files, and intermittent networking issues. spent like $70 on an android TV box and a firestick and that solved that. Kid watches beakman, bill nye, bob ross, invader zim.

If you're patient and know the places media hoarders haunt, you can find dvds for pennies on the dollar. I'm sad all three pawn shops near me closed, because i picked up so much media at those places. There's a couple of other places that have used media, so i started going there 2 or 3 times a year.

I have banker boxes full of Audio CDs in jewel cases in an air conditioned shed. At some point streaming is going to be either so full of ads you may as well just get siriusXM and not have to deal with spotify anymore for audio, and you'll need $300 worth of streaming to keep up with the new hotness in television and moopies. Or, you can be like us, and keep the old stuff alive, and watch that, and discuss that.

You might find the older stuff doesn't make you feel bad, doesn't give you a headache, and will just feel like "home".

I pre-gamed this whole "AI content creation" ramp-up by decades.
by throwaway290 | 2025-06-06 06:33:40+00:00
> Youtube, via Gemini, is (allegedly) slurping the content of Jeff's videos for the purposes of training their AI models

If by "allegedly" you mean that google admitted it

> Google models may be trained on some YouTube content, but always in accordance with our agreement with YouTube creators (https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/google-veo-a-serious-swing...)

Where "agreement" likely means "you accepted some tos 15 years ago so shut up".

> the video has been pulled for (allegedly) promoting copyright infringement

the irony...
by charcircuit | 2025-06-06 06:34:26+00:00
This title is false and clickbait.

From the article the explaination for what part of the dangerous or harmful content rule being broken is about instructing people how to pirate content.

>Dangerous or Harmful Content >Content that describes how to get unauthorized or free access to audio or audiovisual content, software, subscription services, or games that usually require payment isn't allowed on YouTube.

In the article and video he aludes to dumping DVDs and Blurays.

>I've purchased physical media (CDs, DVDs, and more recently, Blu-Rays)

It is illegal to break the encryption of DVDs and BluRays. Playing copies of DVDs and Blurays via Kodi will always be illegal to do since there is no way to get a unencrypted version. This whole video is about how you can play illegal acquired content, but technically it doesn't tell you how to illegally acquire it.