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Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 10 years ago
- sebst 7y agoSpider cat. I watched the Simpson movie with my first girl friend. She hated it, I loved it. Heck, am I getting old...
- gitgud 7y agoNice work! Would be great if you could navigate one day forward and backward.
- bennettfeely 7y agoThat's on the high priority list of things to do when I get a chance.
- johnpowell 7y agohttps://youtubedecade.netlify.com/data/2019_8_24.json https://youtubedecade.netlify.com/data/2019_8_24.json https://youtubedecade.netlify.com/data/2019_8_26.json https://youtubedecade.netlify.com/data/2019_8_26.json
- gitgud 7y agoThis is why it's called Hacker News I suppose :)
- TeMPOraL 7y agoPress F12, type e.g.: loadVideoList(2019, 8, 25). Wrapping this in a calendar widget and injecting through GreaseMonkey script is left as an exercise for the reader.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- PBnFlash 7y agoThis is neat, I tried to make a video series a while ago where I compared and contrasted what was in the front page of YouTube 10 years ago. This would have been super helpful for that. But I was shocked with how much of the stuff from back then on that site is just gone.
- voltagex_ 7y agoMe and a mate have a playlist of stuff to watch when we get together and drink beers. I keep meaning to track/archive it because give it a month and there'll be 2 or 3 out of ~20 videos deleted. The decay is immense.
- crtasm 7y agoAre you familiar with youtube-dl? It can download an entire public playlist - ignoring videos previously downloaded - and easy to run it on a schedule.
- tpetry 7y agoWhat is happening at youtube? Do they delete old content? Only storing a single copy for old content and the disks are dying?
- pjc50 7y agoCopyright takedowns, probably.
- mcny 7y agoI made a video using YouTube's own Audio tracks thing and put a classical piano tuner from its library. It still got a copy right claim and someone makes money every view. How? The track is from YouTube. It was written more than two hundred years ago. In any case, a claim against YouTube's own tracks should be auto rejected and the violater banned. Instead... Why?
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- earthscienceman 7y agoWoah. Great idea, so many interesting things to explore. I'm surprised there's no comment yet about the video titled "The most dangerous Barack Obama video ever!!!". It's such an obvious precursor for what the internet would be come. I was genuinely shocked that it had 10,000,000+ views. Preserved in a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/mnerRgk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/mnerRgk.jpg
- codetrotter 7y agoAlso in that screenshot is a video from the UKF Dubstep channel. 23.4M views. Is that the number of views now or the number of views ten years ago?
- jonny_eh 7y agoProbably now, I doubt they could get that kind of historical data.
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- disillusioned 7y agoThis just makes me deeply miss YouTube Time Machine.
- MattConfluence 7y agoThere was a fun similar thing for Reddit on https://www.reddit.com/r/TenYearsAgoOnReddit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TenYearsAgoOnReddit/ (and https://www.reddit.com/r/FiveYearsAgoOnReddit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FiveYearsAgoOnReddit/), sadly it stopped posting ~9 months ago. Is it possible to use the search API to create something like this for HN?
- insin 7y agoCreate a bookmarklet of this: let d = new Date() d.setFullYear(d.getFullYear() - 10) location.href = `https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=${d.getFullYear()}-${d.getMonth() + 1}-${d.getDate()}`
- systemtest 7y agoThis will break on February 29 :)
- shadowoflight 7y agoUnless it's ten years past a leap year!
- esrauch 7y agoIf it's Feb 29 then you know for sure it isn't 10 years past a leap year, since they are every four years.
- shadowoflight 7y agoAh, yes, I am an idiot. Oops.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoThere's another one called /r/vintageviral. It's not as strict but tracks well-known 9+ year old videos.
- bartread 7y agoUnreal. Front page: 6.9M people[1] watched a video of a small dog trying to mate with a cat. The cat wasn't interested but showed surprising forbearance. [1] OK, yes, I know, it's 6.9M views, and probably some people watched it multiple, so it's probably 2 - 3M people, but that's still a lot of people watching a dog mating with a cat.
- have_faith 7y agoI thought YT counted multiple viewings from the same person as a single view. Or it would be too easy to game. I at least imagine there would be a time cutoff before it considered counting a new view from the same person.
- szatkus 7y agoThere are videos with billions of views, I doubt that much fraction of the planet saw them. I imagine it would horrible performance-wise. You would need to store list of browser fingerprints and check it on every view.
- agumonkey 7y agoI think youtube does a bit of checking on views. The view counter is not real, IIRC the delay is due to asynchronous processing, youtube has time to do stuff in some cases. That's why a lot of videos are stuck at 320 views, that's the supposed limit above which the counting goes async and you get lots of vid with false views.
- doctoboggan 7y agoNo, if a single person watches more than once it is counted as multiple views. For the video creator, you can see a metric called "Unique Viewers" and see your "Average Views per Viewer" number which helps you see if people are watching multiple times. All that being said, I do think there is some detention of fake views, especially if they come from the uploader themselves.
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- flamtap 7y agoThe old-school YouTube iOS icon for the favicon is a great touch!
- robotmlg 7y agoSimilarly, https://favrd.it https://favrd.it has been posting the top tweets of 2009 (as compiled by Favrd, RIP)
- mgalgs 7y agoKudos to the creator for the responsible advertising strategy. The "hey -- you're using an ad blocker" message was thoughtful and non-guilt-tripping. Ads are clearly delineated as such, and the actual ads aren't spammy (carbon). Online advertising needs an overhaul and this is a step in the right direction.