Own Your HackerTube lets anyone turn Karpathy's HackerTube idea into a personal AI filter

Own Your HackerTube gives users a public video site where AI scores new uploads against standards they write.

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Karpathy's HackerTube showed one trusted community could replace a recommendation feed for a weekend project. Own Your HackerTube tests whether individual viewers will write explicit standards, correct an AI filter, and pay $8 a month to keep that gate running across the channels they follow.

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An independent developer launched Own Your HackerTube on November 3rd, turning Andrej Karpathy's one-off HackerTube experiment into a product anyone can run for their own channels and taste. The launch post says the builder started from a simple complaint: recommendation feeds optimize for keeping people scrolling, and that goal does not match what a viewer wants to learn.…

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