>>monort+(OP)
Thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225

>>monort+(OP)
Quoting astrocat from the previous thread:

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

>>monort+(OP)
A somewhat similar "sampling" experience is searching for a high-frequency term like "a", and filtering for an upload date of last hour or day[1]. Non-English terms and time of day bias on geography.

[1] "a"/"last hour": https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=a&sp=EgIIAQ%253...

>>monort+(OP)
There's a subreddit dedicated to this sort of thing, check it out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX

>>monort+(OP)
For me the first video result was, what at first glance appeared to be a robot welding a barbecue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LblUWrJXfSA

>>monort+(OP)
LOL - found this diamond in the rough. Not sure if creepy dude filming women or actually his job? https://www.youtube.com/user/federicomarocchio/videos

>>Nikola+ud1
Reminds me of a Youtube recreation of Vine's original incarnation, VinePeek.

https://i.imgur.com/QE9U5tJ.jpg

>>monort+(OP)
Amazing concept. This was an incredible thing to uncover during my few minutes on the site:

https://youtu.be/1rvPbeHjzlk

It's a video of a woman reciting a poem that she wrote for her eldest son that speaks of her love for her son and her wish that he would get "off the streets". Emotional, honest, real. YouTube like I've never experienced. Brilliant.

>>licebm+hi1
Ever seen Summoning Salt’s documentary videos? https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCtUbO6rBht0daVIOGML3c8w

>>monort+(OP)
This kid is awesome

https://youtu.be/kJ1owcGo-QA

>>bkseni+il1
Here's the GitHub repo for the site: https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut - I'm sure you can go from there. :)

>>ehsank+bk1
https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

Good idea to do a full reset periodically anyways to reset your recommendations.

>>bkseni+il1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13414515 From the last thread.

>>monort+(OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxkpDHfgvpY

Well well

>>monort+(OP)
> These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you).

How does it work, technically? Is there an API to pull videos with a certain title format within a certain range, and then are the sections of video randomly chosen?

Edit: Found this https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut - answers some questions:

> The server currently pulls in videos daily from youtube. Search criteria is [TAG]XXXX with upload time this week, where TAG is a raw video prefix such as 'dsc' or 'img'. This search turns out to be a good approximation for the data set of home videos created in the last week.

>>monort+(OP)
There is also a similar website called http://www.petittube.com/

>>jjorda+Ml1
This kid is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvKbUPMkbqM

>>monort+(OP)
Check this subreddit for a similar and a bit weirder experience

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepIntoYouTube/

>>monort+(OP)
http://www.petittube.com/ is 100 times better

>>monort+(OP)
No matter where you look on YouTube, there always seems to be a pyramid scheme to hop onto:

https://youtu.be/PKqKLntvLFE

I hope he was able to retire after all!

>>chrsst+Qc1
We [0] index YouTube actively and see way over 5.5B videos [1] at this point. We catch a lot of unlisted videos and we did try to figure out how is that possible in the past.

It seems that a lot of users will upload video which is by default published with the default settings and thus is visible from the outside. Even if they change the settings fairly quickly, automated systems like ours will already know about the existence of that video.

There could be other reasons but this seems the most likely, especially as a video that is being uploaded can be published fairly swiftly.

[0] https://pex.com

[1] https://blog.pex.com/what-content-dominates-on-youtube-39081...

>>monort+(OP)
I kind of like the periodic switching and "hands-free" experience, but the idea itself isn't too original[0][1][2] and I am not a fan of the video taking up about 25% of my screen estate, the rest taken up by an unrelated, distracting stock space video.

0: http://defaultfile.name/

1: https://www.randomlyinspired.com/noviews

2: https://www.incognitube.com/

>>monort+(OP)
Yeah can confirm this is a new way to not only experience Youtube, but the internet itself.

This was one of the first few that popped up for me, a cyberpunk/Terry Gilliam reality thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPyfqim1KA8

>>theon1+JA1
> but the idea itself isn't too original

It's not immediately clear which one is the "original one", but this one has been around since at least 2012[1].

[1] https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut/commit/a9bdaf0d00588b7a...

>>fbelzi+xk1
Then you get things like this: https://youtu.be/syiSYMPwFck

>>monort+(OP)
If you like this, you might find this interesting as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepIntoYouTube/

>>monort+(OP)
I created a very similar app:

https://alexgarces.github.io/loststories/

The titles of all the videos shown are random strings based on the default media file names of some popular devices, such as iPhone or Samsung Galaxy. Some examples of these titles would be IMG_8869.MOV, DSC 0711 or MVI 6710.

All the videos, requested in real time, are not more than one year old. They are almost undiscovered, usually with very few views (or not even one).

>>monort+(OP)
https://youtu.be/OFXAK8WcJ1A

>>monort+(OP)
It's pretty cool that the first video that I got was on my language and one of the more classic songs about the struggle against oppression here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t&v=brNbYfwMEjM

>>bkseni+yz1
The creators' Twitter:

  - https://twitter.com/@wongavision
  - https://twitter.com/@astrojams1

Originally posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225

>>e1ghtS+Rp1
There's also http://www.youhole.tv/ which is pretty great

>>whidde+bI2
The site logs each video to your browser's console in the format `Playing {0} in [object Object]`. You can rewatch by visiting https://youtu.be/{0}.

>>elemen+fJ1
Apparently this is some poor attempt at parody.

https://bruceworkman.com/about

>>monort+(OP)
Reminds me of Forgotify: a website that displays songs that have 0 plays on Spotify: http://forgotify.com/

Fun fact: if you listen to a song returned from the site it'll never be seen on the site again (as it would have >0 views)

>>monort+(OP)
this made me lol.. still laughing at this tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhpzNDwm6H4

>>huxflu+Ul1
https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut

>>monort+(OP)
I recently put forward the idea there's enough music in the world already[1] because millions of songs on Spotify have never been heard[2]. And of those millions of unheard songs, many are probably not by musicians but by "poseurs" who don't care about the craft of songwriting.

Perhaps we need something like Astronaut for Spotify?

[1] https://write.as/poseur-to-composer/poseur-approach-to-makin...

[2] https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/spotify-turns-5-reveals-theres-...