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Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

submitted by Keaton+(OP) on 2017-01-16 21:34:15 | 429 points 136 comments
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4. astroc+j5[view] [source] 2017-01-16 22:22:25
>>Keaton+(OP)
PSA: Watch in an private/incognito tab/window. If you are currently logged into your google account, this WILL pollute your watched history: https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

That said, I really do like the concept. It's literal reality TV. Very cool.

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18. jmduke+87[view] [source] 2017-01-16 22:39:46
>>Keaton+(OP)
Wonderful.

If you like this, you might like these other two pages which exist -- like this page -- to demonstrate the breadth of human experience:

https://paperplanes.world/ http://radio.garden/

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31. up_so_+0a[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-01-16 23:07:46
>>jmduke+87
Semi-related: http://thenicestplaceontheinter.net/
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37. Franci+Sa[view] [source] 2017-01-16 23:14:58
>>Keaton+(OP)
There's a subreddit for a pretty similar concept: https://www.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/
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40. Jackim+yb[view] [source] 2017-01-16 23:21:24
>>Keaton+(OP)
This is my favourite that I stumbled upon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBaN0NkyLj8
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41. fallen+Tb[view] [source] 2017-01-16 23:24:19
>>Keaton+(OP)
My favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBaN0NkyLj8
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48. efangs+ve[view] [source] 2017-01-16 23:54:29
>>Keaton+(OP)
Cool! I made (almost the exact same) thing as a twitter bot awhile ago: https://twitter.com/sub500
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50. mastaz+Oe[view] [source] 2017-01-16 23:58:18
>>Keaton+(OP)
I am increasingly at odds with the concept of curation. Youtube, Netflix, Google News, Facebook and many other web portals increasingly try to serve what "suits me" using sophisticated algorithms, but what if I don't want that? Every traveller knows that the best trips are those that you didn't really plan that much, which end up being an adventure. If you are driven by curiosity the unexpected is a blessing. For this reason I enjoy Astronaut and other projects such as GeoGuessr (https://www.geoguessr.com/) because they are a reaction to an overly curated, safe-space, no-surpises web experience.
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54. keyle+Ff[view] [source] 2017-01-17 00:09:19
>>Keaton+(OP)
This, really scared the crap out of me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqaGFV-s3Hs ? [Edit] Maybe I'm wrong and I hope I'm wrong.
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56. cma+eg[view] [source] 2017-01-17 00:21:15
>>Keaton+(OP)
I got this one (illegal cock fighting, maybe not illegal in the country it was filmed in).. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZIS_5SyxSg
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60. jerf+7h[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-01-17 00:35:50
>>CM30+5g
OK, now go through your Baidu Video subscription list and tell me how many are American: http://video.baidu.com/

Oh? You don't have any Baidu video subscriptions?

Are you sure it's the "internet" assuming that you're an American? Or is it just that you hang out on the internet where Americans tend to hang out?

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63. irpapa+yh[view] [source] 2017-01-17 00:41:41
>>Keaton+(OP)
I got a talking brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw5vI5wk_BM
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78. garysi+Ql[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-01-17 01:53:22
>>mastaz+Oe
Totally agree. I'm trying to do something discovery oriented with https://www.findlectures.com - ideally to help find videos on topics you didn't know existed
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79. danso+0m[view] [source] 2017-01-17 01:54:55
>>Keaton+(OP)
Love it. Reminds me of the Vinepeek project (vpeeker) that was a Show HN a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5120301

http://www.vpeeker.com/

Vinepeek/vpeeker is still functioning. Wonder what happens on Jan 17th, the day of the Vine app's shutdown?

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87. lisivk+2t[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-01-17 03:35:49
>>fallen+Tb
My favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8EYfGDyXg .
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88. innern+Tt[view] [source] 2017-01-17 03:49:52
>>Keaton+(OP)
Source code is available at https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut
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97. jrhear+Dy[view] [source] 2017-01-17 05:21:38
>>Keaton+(OP)
This one's beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxX6ZWeK18Q
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105. yread+LK[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-01-17 09:25:14
>>Franci+Sa
also https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepIntoYouTube/
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114. ympek+BU[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-01-17 11:55:34
>>Booris+jz
If you're logged in, the videos are saved to your YT history (https://www.youtube.com/feed/history)
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116. jzwinc+TV[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-01-17 12:10:52
>>cma+eg
That is Thailand. It is theoretically illegal but still popular. The birds usually don't die. Here's more: http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-news/751760/coc...

I was recently in Lao and saw village boys around ten years old training these birds to fight. In context it looked totally normal and reasonable.

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117. spyder+AW[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-01-17 12:21:40
>>Mithal+SG
Yes it's blocked by CSS: #player { pointer-events: none;} and it's against the YouTube TOS:

"G. if you use the YouTube Player on your website may not modify, build upon or block any portion or functionality of the YouTube Player including but not limited to links back to the Website;"

https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms

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119. Mithal+AX[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-01-17 12:35:01
>>spyder+AW
Thanks for pointing that out, i raised the issue on their repository: https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut/issues/5
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122. ChrisG+d01[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-01-17 13:03:46
>>koytch+pR
It is indeed Debussy, "Clair de Lune" from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY although embedded on astronaut.io as http://astronaut.io/audio/debussy.mp4 ...
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125. timlyo+Z11[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-01-17 13:17:32
>>Mithal+SG
If you're logged in then you can go to https://www.youtube.com/feed/history and find it.
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