Karpathy Builds Hacker News Video Curation Site with Claude in a Weekend

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Karpathy used Claude Opus 5.5 to mine 43 million Hacker News comments spanning 20 years, distilling 6,454 repeatedly recommended videos into the login-free HackerTube over a weekend. He then one-shotted TristanTube with Claude Code in three minutes, showing how coding agents can compress weeks of engineering into hours.

LATEST/Karpathy used Claude Opus 5.5 to mine 43 million Hacker News comments spanning 20 years, distilling 6,454 repeatedly recommended videos into the login-free HackerTube over a weekend. He then one-shotted TristanTube with Claude Code in three minutes, showing how coding agents can compress weeks of engineering into hours.

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The DecoderT2Nov 8, 22:23·72 pts
Karpathy Builds Hacker News Video Curation Site with Claude in a Weekend
- Claude Opus 5.5 processed 43 million comments and distilled 6,454 highly recommended videos
- HackerTube requires no login, shows a single mid-video frame, and stores state locally in the browser
- Karpathy manually handled only the API key, server rental, and domain; Claude Code did the rest
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