Methods, comparisons and findings

Field notes from the archive.

How the source dataset was made, what its signals mean and what recurring Hacker News recommendations can—and cannot—tell us.

What is HackerTube?

How HackerTube turned recurring video links in Hacker News discussions into a browsable catalog, and how HN Tube uses that public export.

A reproducible ranking of recurring Hacker News video recommendations, using distinct recommendation months rather than YouTube views.

A practical comparison of YouTube's enormous personalized catalog and HackerTube's smaller Hacker News-derived discovery collection.

The source filters, AI stance labels and recurring-month recommendation score behind the public HackerTube dataset.