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2310 points by bewal416 2y ago

renewiltord 2y ago
This is genuinely amazing. The complete lack of editing. And strangely some of the videos were allowed to have copyrighted content in the background (meaning ContentID wasn't live or hasn't been retroactively applied) really sells the scene. Like, the last one has Taio Cruz's Dynamite playing in the background. Amazing. The Ea-Nasir Tablet of our time.
- pavlov 2y ago
  For me, the YouTube embed player wants a login: “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot.” (iPhone Safari) The Ea-Nasir tablet is in a museum, but at least I can see pictures of it without giving my personal information to a multi-trillion dollar corporation.
  - jervant 2y ago
    Do you use iCloud Private Relay? YouTube gives that message and Google requires a CAPTCHA for web searches very often when iCloud Private Relay is enabled.
    - pavlov 2y ago
      No, I don’t have that enabled.
- Tiberium 2y ago
  >allowed to have copyrighted content in the background I might be wrong in your specific case, but generally YouTube doesn't just remove videos with copyrighted audio. Often copyright holders instead make it so that the video with their songs will have ads and they'll receive all the ad revenue. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7002106?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7002106?hl=en "Depending on the copyright owner's Content ID settings, Content ID claims can: - Block content from being viewed. - Monetize content by running ads on it and sometimes sharing revenue with the uploader. - Track the viewership statistics on the content. Any of these actions can be geography-specific. For example, a video can be monetized in one country/region and blocked or tracked in a different country/region."
  - sailfast 2y ago
    When this happens don’t you typically also see the track registered at the bottom? ContentID took them a long time to develop if I’m remembering right.
- account42 2y ago
  > And strangely some of the videos were allowed to have copyrighted content in the background What is strange is actually how we put up with copyright interfering how we communicate to this extend. Sharing a slice of your life as-is should not be something that other people have a say about.
carlos-menezes 2y ago
> However, this two-click upload feature was short-lived when Apple severed ties Apple severed ties with YouTube by removing its homegrown app in 2012. "Apple severed ties" repeats.
- moffkalast 2y ago
  Time Cook doesn't wear ties. Coincidence? I think not!
- bewal416 2y ago
  Thanks! Gonna fix this later tonight
veidelis 2y ago
It worked, I guess - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y31wZNbbrUI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y31wZNbbrUI
- Affric 2y ago
  Beautiful.
justsomehnguy 2y ago
There were a time when you could had a 8" tablet on Win8 with People app having a feed from Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin and something else too (Twitter?) In a mere months it was gutted on every side and Windows tablets (rspecially 8" favour) gone the way of DoDo
- mardef 2y ago
  That was the remnants of windows phone. The people app would automatically sync all of their social accounts for a person. As Microsoft moved more of those apps out of the inbox image and to the store, the functionality slowly stopped working. The sunset of windows phone ended the rest of those features.
  - justsomehnguy 2y ago
    Yes but my feel (at the time, by the sources slowly dropping and degrading the functionality) it wasn't MS who slowly strangled that functionality. Do you have any articles on that? I'm really interested on what ecactly happened that time and considering the whole Nokia debacle...
    - toast0 2y ago
      Whatever Microsoft was doing, it's also the case that the social apps pulled back the APIs, as they wanted to own the feed views and push recommendations over chronological view. When Cambridge Analytica hit the news media, that was a nail in the coffin of open social APIs, but they were already dead.
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mastazi 2y ago
The website http://astronaut.io/ http://astronaut.io/ does a similar thing but for recent videos, and not just from iPhones. From the home page: > 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). At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia, and the next minute you are at a birthday in Ecuador. It's amazing!
- Elfener 2y ago
  For those using firefox's autoplay blocker, http://astronaut.io/ http://astronaut.io/ doesn't work at all unless you whitelist it.
  - folmar 2y ago
    Works for me (current ESR on Linux).
  - mastazi 2y ago
    It works if you use the default autoplay blocker setting ("block audio"). Probably you are using the setting "block audio and video" as default (I use that too) and in our case we have to whitelist it.
- mikae1 2y ago
  There were a bunch of subreddits based on obscure videos with default filenames. https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/
  - Cthulhu_ 2y ago
    There is / was also r/DeepIntoYoutube which was dedicated to good videos that only had a handful of views. It reminds me of this grandma that played Skyrim for ages but never had any views, but thanks to one of these discover pages, she got a following of tens of thousands.
LeoPanthera 2y ago
Lots of digital cameras use an incrementing number in the filename. If you ignore the prefix part, I wonder what is the most commonly uploaded filename number for photos and videos?
- dylan604 2y ago
  IMG_XXXX is actually a standard for digital cameras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy... TFA, "Apple uses the ‘IMG_XXXX’ naming convention for all images and videos captured on iOS devices, where XXXX is a unique sequence number." isn't very accurate, as the numbers are not unique. They're just sequential. if you take 1001 images, the file system will actually create a new folder and roll the digits back to 0000 to avoid overwriting
  - bewal416 2y ago
    Thanks for fact-checking me on this. When writing this, I didn’t consider what would happen on the 10,000th image. I will add an asterisk on this line!
  - kalleboo 2y ago
    Although as that link says, the prefix depends on the manufacturer. My Sony Mavica cameras have MVC_, newer Sony cameras are DSC0, my Fujifilm cameras have DSCF, I think IMG_ is pretty unique to Apple
    - dylan604 2y ago
      >I think IMG_ is pretty unique to Apple You'd be thinking wrong. Canon cameras also use the IMG_ format. It's been a while since I've dealt with GoPros, but I'm pretty sure they are IMG_ as well. While it's nice to hold onto what you know from experience, extrapolating that to end-all-be-all knowledge is just not a good stance. Especially in the light of information from people with wider breadth of information.
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jsemrau 2y ago
Ah, this is where this comes from. There has been rumours flying around in Stable Diffusion / Flux circles that you would get much more realistic pictures when you include a photo id like IMG_0416.
- Sharlin 2y ago
  I don’t think it comes from these Youtube videos – Flickr and other photo upload services are a more likely source of training images with default file names.
  - jsemrau 2y ago
    Maybe its a combination of both.
    - Sharlin 2y ago
      It seems exceedingly unlikely to me that frames from random YouTube videos would have been used to train image generation models. First off, they're difficult to extract and second, the quality of individual video frames is very low, especially if we're talking about 15 year old phone videos at what, 480p at the very best!
      - jsemrau 2y ago
        You are probably right. I approached it from a high-value dataset perspective but would agree that fuzzy frames probably don't help much.
- aydyn 2y ago
  Its not a rumor, you really do and you can try it out yourself. Unfortunately its very finnicky and you cant really leverage it to produce a realistic image of what you want since any further prompting seems to override it. Its like a ghost in the machine prompt.
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bewal416 2y ago
Hey, OP here! This is my first ever HN post- I appreciate the warm reception. A couple hours after posting this on my site, I found this incredible vid of a woman telling her partner she’s pregnant. Incredibly heartfelt, and only 16 views https://youtu.be/refKFdcojlE?si=l-PssLVYmmOPjjjA https://youtu.be/refKFdcojlE?si=l-PssLVYmmOPjjjA It was posted over 10 years ago. I wonder if the family even knows that this video still exists.
- theandrewbailey 2y ago
  > Mar 14, 2014 That kid will be 10 soon.
  - pavlov 2y ago
    Eleven in four months?
    - meowster 2y ago
      Presumably there are still about 9 months to go in that pregnancy before the child is born.
      - lukan 2y ago
        I always thought, that would make way more sense. But a bit harder to find exact dates probably ..
    - kelnos 2y ago
      Assuming it takes someone roughly 4-6 weeks to realize they are pregnant, the child was probably born in or around November 2014, and will be turning 10 in the next couple weeks. I suppose the woman filming the video could have taken much longer to realize (unlikely, but possible), or chose to wait to tell the father until several months later (also unlikely, but possible), but either way, the kid is turning 10 now-ish, not 11. It's also possible that this video was posted well after it was taken, in which case we can't say much about the age of the kid, except that it likely happened before this "Share to YouTube" functionality was removed from iOS.
flpm 2y ago
This makes me hopeful, the internet can still be interesting when we manage to break away from the attention trap of infinite feed and the prepared content designed to optimize likes. Feels like the raw homepages of a long time ago.
divbzero 2y ago
I love the potash game! That’s hilarious.
mikae1 2y ago
There were a bunch of subreddits based on obscure videos with default filenames. https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/
tokioyoyo 2y ago
A little bit tangent, and I'm definitely looking at it from rose colored glasses... but been playing with it for the 30 minutes, and most of the videos look so real? Like when you go on TikTok / Instagram nowadays, there are obviously unlimited amount of content. But there's this sense of everything being edited multiple times, people trying to create their own "brand", nothing looking real. It's a shame how we over-financialized everything and sucked out the fun. Or maybe I just got old. Side note, I'll also recommend people to look up "X city in 1990s / 2000s" on YouTube. San Francisco, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Toronto, London and etc. have cool slice of life content from people who were very into camcorders.
- andai 2y ago
  I see parallels with this and RuneScape. Now it's all about efficiently grinding stats or flipping stuff on the exchange. Back in the day it was all about trimming armor and buying gf.
  - durumu 2y ago
    I think that has more to do with being a kid vs being an adult. Kids are probably still buying gfs on Roblox and Minecraft today (disclaimer: I have no idea what kids play these days lol)
    - account42 2y ago
      It's intelectually lazy to dismiss any concern about societal change as "you have just gotten old".
- epcoa 2y ago
  > I'm definitely looking at it from rose colored glasses It's not rose tinted glasses, it's just a poor comparison. The absolute vast majority of these videos have double digit if not any views. You're seeking them out, using a little quirk of naming and the poster's DGAFism. There is no pretense of promotion to a large audience or virality. Anything spoonfed you on a Tiktok or Instagram feed could not be more different. The default Youtube experience is the same as mass Tiktok. Moreover you can find plenty of similar material like this on Instagram and Tiktok if you go looking for it, that is after all what most people are using it for, bumming around with their friends. The algorithm isn't going to spoonfeed this to you, and obviously Youtube never did either.
pg_bot 2y ago
"Turn roll Nate roll some little" might be burned into my brain now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSWZduStYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSWZduStYs
meindnoch 2y ago
I want to play the potash game.
dmead 2y ago
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- yuliyp 2y ago
  That's certainly one way to look at it. For sure there's a lot of stuff that shouldn't have been shared. And for sure probably was abused by pedos. That doesn't mean that was the only or even predominant use case. Most people using the internet never end up interacting with pedos in any way, and assuming that dealing with pedos is the driving force here feels a bit narrow-minded.
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mrtksn 2y ago
Digital version of "I just bought some films from a yard sale". The good old days before enshitification.
- AI_beffr 2y ago
  this is valid of course but it makes me think about how totally different this is to that. the world has changed even more in this case i think.
petercooper 2y ago
/r/DeepIntoYouTube addict here. There are a lot of patterns like this you can use to find bizarre YouTube videos with next to no views, based upon the default numbering scheme of various cameras. Just one example: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MVI_7812.MOV https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MVI_7812.MOV .. and yes, you can rattle through thousands of numbers for just that one.
- joezydeco 2y ago
  If you want to look for GoPro videos, start at GX010001.MP4 and increment from there.
  - 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y ago
    Mine start with GH, like GH011634.MP4
- abixb 2y ago
  Here's another ADORABLE one I found of a little kid almost getting the soccer ball into the net (MVI_1012.MOV) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6eYAxaXijc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6eYAxaXijc
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blululu 2y ago
This is cool. In a similar vein with a more continuous display, check out astronaut.io
butnougat43 2y ago
Worked great for me!
- thelastparadise 2y ago
  Likewise. Got an error at first, then it was working fine.
  - butnougat43 2y ago
    Ah, yeah I did get a couple errors at first, but kept trying then it worked great.
redpandadolphin 2y ago
I did this and the 2nd video I found was of a recording of "Disco 2000" by the Pulp at a festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DCFCQ9GYUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DCFCQ9GYUY By coincidence this is one of my favourite songs by one of my favourite bands.
- nocoiner 2y ago
  Nice find. Also one of my favorite bands and one of my favorite songs of theirs. Edit: I found the set list for that show: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pulp/2011/hyde-park-london-england-7bd36e9c.html https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pulp/2011/hyde-park-london-en...
AI_beffr 2y ago
this is what youtube and reddit was like during 2011. it was calm, serene, accepting, warm, human. it was just this perfect mixture of user friendliness, people knowing how to type and use computers and just before the internet was taken seriously by anyone and corrupted by money. before social media became a serious political consideration. i remember very clearly that even at the time it felt too good to be true. these videos capture that feeling pretty well. it was all unfiltered and it made you feel like you were connected to the world. like you had your finger on the pulse of the world. or like the entire world was inside your computer. really warm fuzzy vibes. i still miss that. but now i am too busy to spend so much time on the computer anyway.
- aucisson_masque 2y ago
  You're speaking of a world that doesn't exist. Even back then people were trying to make money out of YouTube.
  - ziddoap 2y ago
    >Even back then people were trying to make money out of YouTube It's a matter of degree. Early YouTube was much closer to what the parent poster describes than the YouTube of today. When I first discovered YouTube and uploaded videos, the thought of making money (let alone making a living) was nowhere in my mind.
  - account42 2y ago
    There were people trying to make money but that wasn't the default and the attempts at doing so weren't as repetitive.
- 5040 2y ago
  I miss those days too, but my recollection of Youtube is a little different. Lots of piracy for example.
brap 2y ago
I understand that these videos were made public, but still this kinda feels like violating people’s privacy. They most likely never intended for us all to watch their personal videos a decade later.
- aucisson_masque 2y ago
  It's no different of inadvertently watching your neighbor naked through her window because you happened to look at the wrong time. You know it's wrong but you won't look elsewhere...
  - brap 2y ago
    True but I would probably not share her naked video on HN
  - hsbauauvhabzb 2y ago
    It’s more like you’re continually checking hundreds of windows, just in case it happens…
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  - 93po 2y ago
    i mean i personally look elsewhere, bc getting caught looking would feel really shitty for them probably.
  - ronsor 2y ago
    I think that is neither a normal situation to be in nor a normal thing to do.
    - aucisson_masque 2y ago
      Please define normality, in the meantime I'm giving a try : Normal men have balls, balls make man attracted to women -> normal men get their attention grabbed by inadvertently looking at pretty naked woman.
aaron695 2y ago
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siva7 2y ago
You’re all acting like these videos are from ancient times.
- efilife 2y ago
  In tech, ~12 years is a lot. Judging by how fast our devices evolve, they are ancient
  - wussboy 2y ago
    But judging by any other criteria, they're just yesterday.
corobo 2y ago
I'd love a tech write up from the YouTube folks starting from when someone was wondering "Why is all this data waking up from the lukewarm storage layer today lmao" opens HN "ah ok"
spuds 2y ago
I love the rawness of this. I've noticed I tend towards a feeling of everyone else in the world being so alien, living some totally different incomprehensible life from mine. (Or more than I'm the alien, and everyone else is living a normal, enviable life.) Seeing little snapshots like these, most of them seemingly just for memory's sake, makes me feel a little more human. Hard to get on any social media, where there's also some curation going on.
- anileated 2y ago
  > I've noticed I tend towards a feeling of everyone else in the world being so alien, living some totally different incomprehensible life from mine. (Or more than I'm the alien, and everyone else is living a normal, enviable life.) Same. > Seeing little snapshots like these, most of them seemingly just for memory's sake, makes me feel a little more human. For me these videos only highlight the previously mentioned state of affairs.
slmjkdbtl 2y ago
Wow, I hope there's a similar video platform now, filled with casual everyday videos of normal people, it'll be precious documentation for human kind.
DidYaWipe 2y ago
Is what?
theyknowitsxmas 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xF-wxS1_ZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xF-wxS1_ZE
cedws 2y ago
Watching these videos made me sad. It's a stark reminder that the old internet I grew up with is over. And I'm not even that old. I miss the candid content, from when people just uploaded whatever they felt like without incentive. YouTube is an industrial clickbait farm now. Social media is driving people apart and turning them into narcissists.
fiatpandas 2y ago
Used to have a raspberry pi + small hdmi screen on a shelf, and it would randomly play these raw uploads 24/7, new video every 2 minutes. It was fun to encounter random home movies all day. Very hard to maintain due to use of YouTube-dl, plus legacy search API that I was eventually kicked off of after unsuccessfully arguing for my continued use as an art project. My version searched for 4-5 different camera prefixes including IMG_. Would be fun to remake the backend with a headless browser framework + YouTube-dl.
- akersten 2y ago
  > I was eventually kicked off Woah, can you expand on that? Did you get IP banned from YouTube?
  - fiatpandas 2y ago
    No, to my memory they were phasing out the API except for case-by-case allowed usage. I think I opened a support ticket to justify continued access, with a description of my project, but they denied my use case. I can’t remember now if access was cut off, or if limits were dropped so low it was unusable, but the project became infeasible.
    - Ginger-Pickles 2y ago
      Same thing reported by author of: https://default-filename-tv.neocities.org/ https://default-filename-tv.neocities.org/
- 1una 2y ago
  > Very hard to maintain due to use of YouTube-dl, plus legacy search API With yt-dlp you can do this: yt-dlp ytsearch5:IMG_0416 which searches for IMG_0416 and downloads the first 5 of them. There is no need to use YouTube API.
  - fiatpandas 2y ago
    Great tip! Would love to not have to maintain a headless script. Just set YouTube-dl to update on a cronjob.
kayyyy 2y ago
Surprised that nobody is talking about the other obscure file name "Webcam video from" that was attached to untitled videos made in the webcam recorder that used to be built into the site.
tolerance 2y ago
This comes across to me like a sort of "voyeur porn"...in the sense like how "food porn" excites the stomach...and sports excites competitive spirit. What I'm gathering from the comments here is that these videos excite faculties of man that are less carnal than the other examples. Be that as it may.
totetsu 2y ago
Once upon a time you could do this directly on google with things like “index of” and find candid things from people’s shared folders
cambronnes 2y ago
This is so wholesome.
wkjagt 2y ago
Tangent, but I miss that iPhone era. I remember holding an iPhone for the first time. Someone showed me a map app (maybe Google Maps) and it took me a second to realize I was looking at a map of where I was, and remember thinking "how does it know?", and just being so mesmerized by it. And Angry Birds.
yeldarb 2y ago
It’s sad that only Google can (and honestly a bit surprising that Google hasn’t) use multimodal video models to index the semantic contents & transcripts of these videos for search. Huge long tail of unique content.
- DriverDaily 2y ago
  It is! I've often wanted to search for something that happens in a video instead of just the title, description, and keywords.
  - tonyhart7 2y ago
    it would be a totally game changer and super helpful for months then people start abusing it to gain views anyway like the current web
pppoe 2y ago
This reminds me the trick to make recent text-to-image model generate highly realistic (but amateur) photos by adding "IMG_XXXX" into the prompt. Although these videos have nearly zero views on YouTube, they may be part of the training data behind these models.
- sen 2y ago
  It’s also the default naming for every digital SLR, phone camera, etc… lots of which upload with file name as title to Flickr and many other photo sharing services, most of which have also been used in training data. DSC, IMG, etc etc.
- namaria 2y ago
  Funny calling that a trick. These models 'generating' stuff is just recovering patterns compressed during the 'training'.
wingworks 2y ago
omg, where is this from? (some kinda app that overlayed 3d animations?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSWZduStYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSWZduStYs
- all2 2y ago
  That looks like a 2D image with an alpha channel based on the background color of the image. Watch the shadow of the bot as it crosses the edge if the desk.
blahgeek 2y ago
Reading half way through the post, I thought what the author going to do was to analyze the distribution of numbers in the filename, and, I don't know, maybe give an estimation about how often people take photos or videos, based on the time, country, etc. That would be an interesting study.
- BandButcher 2y ago
  ironically, im glad this post wasn't about that. that would've been too typical of HN imo. why talk about metadata when you can just enjoy the data itself??
dools 2y ago
In about 2007 or so my brother and I used to find super obscure blogs with no comments, read them and then write detailed responses to the author and share it with our friends. We always kept it positive, and said encouraging things. Most of the time the posts had been written in the 90s or early 2000s. We just did it knowing that probably one or two people would get notified of a new comment and maybe feel happy that someone read their post.
- ddingus 2y ago
  Cool! I have done that myself a time or two. Ever get a good response back? I have been surprised a time or two ending up in a conversation with someone who took the time same as I did. Just because we could.
- necovek 2y ago
  I think "blogs" as in "web logs" with features like comments (trackbacks and linkbacks came later) only appeared around 2000 or 2001. But still, plenty of blog posts from early 2000s to comment on in 2007, especially on the likes of LiveJournal or Blogger.
- mr90210 2y ago
  I think I am going to start doing that =D. I wonder what keywords or tricks I might use to find such blogs in the current days.
pradn 2y ago
Twitter used to have an app, Periscope. You could start a livestream any time, anywhere. And viewers could fine live streams on a world map. For a few months, it was possible to feel the incredible simultaneity and richness of human lives. Someone biking, another person cooking. Day in one place, night in another place. It was ahead of its time. And too expensive for Twitter to keep running for too long. But it was a precursor to today's Snapschat's map view and Instagram live streams.
- tonyhart7 2y ago
  they should bring it back
  - ttul 2y ago
    I’m struggling to imagine Elon Musk doing that.
    - gpmcadam 2y ago
      Isn't that exactly what he did when live-streaming on X last year? https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1653608284606312448 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1653608284606312448 "This is 2015 Periscope code. Yeah, seems like we just need to improve it a bit."
  - cylemons 2y ago
    I think Twitter is losing enough money already, doubt they could afford to do that
  - stiltzkin 2y ago
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- rasapetter 2y ago
  And before that, there was Bambuser which was very similar to Periscope but launched some 8 years earlier. It never gained the popularity of Periscope, likely at least partly due to its Nordic rather than Bay Area roots - but, oh boy, was it fun! At any time of the day you could go to the website and watch normal people around the globe doing random stuff. And chat with them!There weren't any real influencers at the time (at least not on the platform) and monetization wasn't possible, so people's motivations for live streaming stuff was not to make money but rather the joy of sharing a moment or just experiencing new cool technology. It got a bit less joyful when the Arabic Spring started and the platform got used by many in very dire situations but it remained incredibly interesting to follow. The company still exists, though they stopped offering free-to-use consumer services long ago.
azhenley 2y ago
I wish I would _just_ create and share, instead of getting stuck in analysis paralysis trying to perfect it.
FactKnower69 2y ago
>YouTube automatically removes harmful or violent content What a bizarre and obviously false claim to make for no reason in the middle of the article
Lammy 2y ago
> Apple uses the ‘IMG_XXXX’ naming convention for all images and videos captured on iOS devices, where XXXX is a unique sequence number. For what it's worth, Apple are just conforming to the JEITA/CIPA DCF standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy... “DCF file names” specification sez… http://www.kronometric.org/phot/std/DC-009-2010_E.pdf#page=21 http://www.kronometric.org/phot/std/DC-009-2010_E.pdf#page=2... “File names conforming to the following rules are called DCF file names. • The file name is 8 characters (not including the file extension). • The first four characters consist only of the upper-case alphanumeric characters shown in Table 1 • These are referred to as the DCF file name Free characters. They shall not contain two-byte characters or special codes. • The four characters that follow are a number between "0001" and "9999". "0000" shall not be used. These four digits are referred to as File number. • Files with the same file number stored in the same DCF directory are considered to be object component files as defined in 4.3.2.”
- rob74 2y ago
  ...and collisions between filenames that would happen because of the "wraparound" after 9999 images/videos are avoided by storing them in different directories.
- agilob 2y ago
  It's really cool that such standard exists, the worst thing about Pixel phones is stupid filenames of pictures and videos, not only it's not following this standard, but contains WRONG timestamp. For example, picture with name `PLX_20241101_115855.jpg` was taken at 12:58:55, not 11 as the name suggests, but also picture with name `PLX_20240913_191525.jpg` was taken at 19:15:25. A video on the other hand would have a timestamp offset -1, the offset changes depending on time of the year and it's different for pictures and videos. It's annoying af, because pictures and videos in the same folder will not be sorted chronologically by filename.
  - nasretdinov 2y ago
    Potentially daylight savings related? E.g. file names are in UTC, whereas local time obviously isn't
UberFly 2y ago
So many touching snapshots into the actually important things in life. Very cool.
ttul 2y ago
https://youtu.be/9oAP2A98qLc?si=MaRGwcJlIyV0-Iff https://youtu.be/9oAP2A98qLc?si=MaRGwcJlIyV0-Iff “THE CULT- SHE SELLS SANCTUARY- LIVE DETROIT 2010” Pretty great.
adamredwoods 2y ago
Very heartwarming. I have an "android named" video uploaded to YouTube a few years ago, and because there is copyrighted background music going on (which I didn't realize at the time) YouTube is threatening to delete it. I don't know if they will or not, not sure when they put the "will delete" tag on it. My late wife is in it. She died recently. I didn't know that video was still up there until I read your post. And now my heart breaks.
- walthamstow 2y ago
  If you can send me the link I will happily rip it from YouTube for you and send it to you via any method you prefer. Sorry for your loss.
- mtwshngtn 2y ago
  If you remember the account details to log in to the account which uploaded that video, you can go to https://studio.youtube.com https://studio.youtube.com, click "Content", and under the 3-dot menu for each video you can click "Download" to get Youtube's copy of your video. Hoping that helps. Otherwise, you might try something like https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.
- ComputerGuru 2y ago
  YouTube now has a new feature to replace copyrighted background soundtracks with free ones automatically, using some AI magic to edit the movie while preserving views, links, likes, etc. Very nice feature, though I haven’t used it myself to say if it works as labeled. It should be an option now when you get a violation warning.
benreesman 2y ago
Oh man this is so great: I’ve been having a shitty day and I’ve been smiling from ear to ear since about the second paragraph of this post. When no one is trying to actively distort the Internet for monetization it’s every bit as magical as it was in September of 1994 and I remember why I took this up as a trade. Good job on putting this #1 HN.
energy123 2y ago
Scrape and preserve these videos, someone
ddingus 2y ago
I found a band I really like by searching on the ampersand, "&" https://youtu.be/pLJ85XExZtQ?si=75ZykQeUjgItcpDM https://youtu.be/pLJ85XExZtQ?si=75ZykQeUjgItcpDM Not sure what triggered it, but I began odd searches a while ago and want to echo many of the "feels like the good old days" type comments. Video made without any real production intent is compelling. It is pure, raw, just human and many of us hunger for that because the big media players dominate hard for fear of losing to their peers it seems. And that behavior is expensive to us.
binary_slinger 2y ago
This reminds me of something I've been thinking a lot about. which i think is big techs greatest failure: interoperability I first thought of this when seeing someone take a picture of their computer screen. There is just so much friction in moving data. I should be able to take anything off any screen and move the source material to any other screen on any device or cloud with a simple 1-click process. Including the devices of a friend or family member. Microsoft forced OEM's to replace the right ctrl key with a copilot key. really it should have been an 'interoperability' key.
- itsgabriel 2y ago
  It's not a failure, it's big techs greatest feature. Try to imagine the likes of Windows, Office, Apple, AWS, Social Media etc. without lock-in, network effect or all the other names for missing interoperability.
- eproxus 2y ago
  I usually joke that the hardest problem in computer science that is not yet solved is sending a file between two devices.
  - siriushacker 2y ago
    Email baby!
    - layer8 2y ago
      Only up to 18 MB or so. ;)
      - account42 2y ago
        And not always instant.
      - creole_wither 2y ago
        uunencode the data and split into as many emails as necessary
londons_explore 2y ago
I have uploaded a bunch of similar stuff... Videos are so big and cloud storage for it pretty expensive. since nothing I film is nuclear launch codes, I just upload it all to youtube as a way to store it for free. Also gives me a handy sharing link for sending to friends too.
agilob 2y ago
>Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app. A feature Nokia with Android One used to have too, but Android itself doesn't have.
redbell 2y ago
Excellent read, OP! I really enjoyed this, especially being your very first post here. I hope to see more posts from you in the future. I didn't know this feature existed back in the days, and you just cannot ignore the haptic feedback feeling when you watch original, unedited content from random people who were filming not for the sake of publishing to the mass but just for themselves and friends/family to keep these records as memories. This reminds me of the pre-smartphone era where people used to own handheld, personal cameras to capture special moments of their lives as souvenirs. Also, regarding these "IMG_XXX" videos, one notable pattern is that they all have very low number views, for an obvious reason. The odd one to this pattern is this pregnancy video, which had the number of views jumped from 16 in ten years to to 1,650 in 10 hours. Also, checking the comments' section, they are all new, with the first (oldest) one being posted 9 hours ago.
mrs6969 2y ago
Just entered my birthday too, and found one of the cutest baby video ever Thanks for the article
guardian5x 2y ago
I wonder if we will soon have Data Archeologists, who will try to find these hidden long forgotten gems on the Internet.
hacker_88 2y ago
It's like one day on earth project, but for every day
CMay 2y ago
From my notes. Maybe it's useful to someone. Not comprehensive as there are other brands and other iterations I'm sure. Many dpreview.com sample galleries show original filenames. Some forums list filenames, youtube descriptions can list model names, pdf manuals and manufacturer websites sometimes list the names. There isn't really a good list of these that I know of. ○ Apple - IMG_0001 ○ BlackMagic Design - A001 * C001 ○ Canon - 100-0001 - 101-0001 - 10x-0001 - IMG_0001 - MVI_0001.MOV ○ Casio - CIMG001 - CIMG0001 ○ Fuji - DSCF0001 ○ GoPro - GX010001.MP4 - GH010001.MP4 ○ HP - HPIM0001 ○ Jenoptik - JD0001 ○ JVC - MOV_0001.mpg ○ Kodak - P0000001.KDC - DCP_0001 - 102_0001 ○ Konica Minolta - PICT0001 ○ Kyocera - KIF 0001 ○ Nikon - DSCN0001 - DSC_0001 ○ Nokia - DCM001 - DCM0001 ○ Olympus - Pmdd0001 ○ Panasonic - Pmdd 0001 - P1000001 - P0001 ○ Pentax - IMGP0001 ○ Polaroid - DSCI0001 ○ Ricoh - R0010001 - R0020001 ○ Samsung - P1000001 - SAM 0001 - SH100001 - SV100001 - S7000001 ○ Sanyo - SANY0001 ○ Sigma - IMG0001 ○ Sony - DSC0001 - DSC00001 - DSC_0001 - MAH00001 ○ Misc - Mmddyy-hhmmss - Yymmdd-hhmm-ss - yyyymmdd_hhmmss - VID_yyyymmdd - mmddyy 3g2 - mmddyy 3gp - PXL_yyyymmdd_hhmmssms.mp4 Though in writing this and looking something up, I just came across this github that could be useful: https://github.com/thorsted/digicam_corpus https://github.com/thorsted/digicam_corpus
- CarVac 2y ago
  Pro-level (1D) Canons let you set the three prefix letters.
  - zipmapfoldright 2y ago
    what's the default though? defaults matter, most people don't change them.
- eftpotrm 2y ago
  Nikon defaulted to DSC_0001 for some time now, may still do but I don't have any Z series gear to check.
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sourcepluck 2y ago
> YouTube automatically removes harmful or violent content, so what remains exists in a unique, almost paradoxical state: forbidden, yet harmless. What exactly is forbidden, by who? I don't get the use of that word there. Also, anyone who doesn't know the "before" and "after" search operators is missing out on some excellent nostalgia-trawling similar to what is described here. "cat before:2007" -> 2005 to 2007, the OG cat videos "skateboard before:2010" -> yes "assange interview before:2016" -> then filter for longer videos "parkour after:2009 before:2015" -> parkour videos from 2009 to 2015
- bewal416 2y ago
  Hey! My intention with this sentence is to say that although the content is publicly available, the viewer may feel like they're still "not allowed" to be watching it. Others in the comments articulated this better than me: > I understand that these videos were made public, but still this kinda feels like violating people’s privacy. They most likely never intended for us all to watch their personal videos a decade later. I tried to distill it in a couple words in the blog, bc I didn't want to harp on it. In retrospect, I could've explained it better.
- elboru 2y ago
  Thanks for this, a few months ago I was trying to find an old video but it was impossible to find with regular queries, there's just too much SEO garbage recently added to YouTube.
- kentosi-dw 2y ago
  Thank you so much for this! I love & miss all the videos from the old days.
plingbang 2y ago
Some time ago there was a website that showed you a random YouTube video. Like truly random. The biggest discovery to me was that a typical video has 0-1 views, nearly always <10. I bet most people don't realize this is how YouTube actually looks like. And I guess it's also a good small reminder to all people trying to become famous on social media. I believe the website tried to find videos with least bias possible by doing some clever searches using YouTube API (so not just videos titled IMGXXXX). Maybe it was trying to do partial matches on video ID.
- danhau 2y ago
  > The biggest discovery to me was that a typical video has 0-1 views, nearly always <10. I bet most people don't realize this is how YouTube actually looks like. This is also interesting when thinking about how to optimize a video platform. You can see how the vast majority of videos could be evicted to cold / slow storage.
shark1 2y ago
All of these ordinary footages should be preserved.
brandonpelfrey 2y ago
I personally don't have a problem with this, but this really made me feel like I don't understand the community of this forum sometimes. HN every day has multiple posts which drive so many comments about how privacy is lost and everything needs full E2EE, trust no one, etc. Then there is this post which is also a breach of privacy (much more than some things complain about), and yet the reaction is "wow, this is so pure and amazing to view into these candid moments". It feels like some cognitive dissonance. Still, personally I thought this was a cool post.
- philipwhiuk 2y ago
  This website isn't a breach of privacy. The original upload process wasn't privacy preserving. The videos are already public on YouTube.
- virgil_disgr4ce 2y ago
  How is this a breach of privacy?
  - dewey 2y ago
    If it's that easy to upload a video from your camera roll to YouTube (Two clicks) it's not that hard to imagine that this can happen by mistake or by someone who doesn't know that it uploads as "public" by default. Maybe they just wanted to send this video to a friend and didn't have the technical understanding that this will then be visible for everyone searching for it on YouTube.
- kartoffelsaft 2y ago
  There are a few things that come to mind that make this different: 1. This isn't really privacy breaching. For someone who taps the "share to youtube" button without knowing what it means, sure, but even that is pretty explicit that you're sharing it. Not sure why the article itself says people didn't know what the button would do before tapping it, so I'd like some further explanation of this point. 2. It's opt in, not opt out. Spending time with most "normal" people has shown me that very few people give a crap about going into settings menus to configure exactly how ther data is used or collected, or otherwise switching to a service that gives them that control. When HN complains about privacy being dead, they are complaining about this apathy end how it gets exploited. This feature does not exploit that apathy. 3. This gives us something that we actually want. When most services invade your privacy, it's usually for things like advertising, targeting content, and data brokering. Things that I know I personally have a lot of issues with, and I feel I'm not alone. This button doesn't do those things, it just gives us interesting videos. So much so that most of the fascination with these videos is that you can feel the absence of those issues.
skp1995 2y ago
I am missing the link to the thread, but diffusion models also give a very consistent output when prompted with `IMG_{number}` part of the reason could be the training data distribution
nullsmack 2y ago
Other/older digital cameras used similar sequences of letters and numbers like DSC_0001 and a few more I can't remember atm. It might be fun to search for those too.
aalchek 2y ago
Very cool- always good to appreciate how tech has evolved and some of the culture and technical branches that have stemmed from that
omiid 2y ago
I can't believe how many random memories YouTube may contain! It's amazing!
BillTthree 2y ago
Gunshots at 1:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR3mv5SbAi4&t=17s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR3mv5SbAi4&t=17s Maybe a slamming door, why so many slams? Obvious barking dog, then the wicked desperate woman's scream
facialwipe 2y ago
The article is mildly infuriating. Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” Proceeds to feature two videos from 2015.
vlad-asis 2y ago
nice! I'm really lucky having this cool video (4 views) for my birthday dates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOs05AhmxDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOs05AhmxDU
jeegsy 2y ago
I'm so glad these videos are still on there. As much as I consume youtube now, this brings back memories of when it was literally "YOUtube". Truly a glorious time!
JohnMakin 2y ago
You used to be able to do something similar (probably still can) by using common URL patterns for insecure/unauthenticated security camera feeds. You could even use google to find them! I loved the late 00's/early 10's web.

2310 points by bewal416 2y ago

This is genuinely amazing. The complete lack of editing. And strangely some of the videos were allowed to have copyrighted content in the background (meaning ContentID wasn't live or hasn't been retroactively applied) really sells the scene. Like, the last one has Taio Cruz's Dynamite playing in the background. Amazing. The Ea-Nasir Tablet of our time.

pavlov 2y ago
For me, the YouTube embed player wants a login: “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot.” (iPhone Safari) The Ea-Nasir tablet is in a museum, but at least I can see pictures of it without giving my personal information to a multi-trillion dollar corporation.
- jervant 2y ago
  Do you use iCloud Private Relay? YouTube gives that message and Google requires a CAPTCHA for web searches very often when iCloud Private Relay is enabled.
  - pavlov 2y ago
    No, I don’t have that enabled.
Tiberium 2y ago
>allowed to have copyrighted content in the background I might be wrong in your specific case, but generally YouTube doesn't just remove videos with copyrighted audio. Often copyright holders instead make it so that the video with their songs will have ads and they'll receive all the ad revenue. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7002106?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7002106?hl=en "Depending on the copyright owner's Content ID settings, Content ID claims can: - Block content from being viewed. - Monetize content by running ads on it and sometimes sharing revenue with the uploader. - Track the viewership statistics on the content. Any of these actions can be geography-specific. For example, a video can be monetized in one country/region and blocked or tracked in a different country/region."
- sailfast 2y ago
  When this happens don’t you typically also see the track registered at the bottom? ContentID took them a long time to develop if I’m remembering right.
account42 2y ago
> And strangely some of the videos were allowed to have copyrighted content in the background What is strange is actually how we put up with copyright interfering how we communicate to this extend. Sharing a slice of your life as-is should not be something that other people have a say about.

carlos-menezes 2y ago

> However, this two-click upload feature was short-lived when Apple severed ties Apple severed ties with YouTube by removing its homegrown app in 2012. "Apple severed ties" repeats.

moffkalast 2y ago
Time Cook doesn't wear ties. Coincidence? I think not!
bewal416 2y ago
Thanks! Gonna fix this later tonight

veidelis 2y ago

It worked, I guess - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y31wZNbbrUI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y31wZNbbrUI

Affric 2y ago
Beautiful.

justsomehnguy 2y ago

There were a time when you could had a 8" tablet on Win8 with People app having a feed from Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin and something else too (Twitter?) In a mere months it was gutted on every side and Windows tablets (rspecially 8" favour) gone the way of DoDo

mardef 2y ago
That was the remnants of windows phone. The people app would automatically sync all of their social accounts for a person. As Microsoft moved more of those apps out of the inbox image and to the store, the functionality slowly stopped working. The sunset of windows phone ended the rest of those features.
- justsomehnguy 2y ago
  Yes but my feel (at the time, by the sources slowly dropping and degrading the functionality) it wasn't MS who slowly strangled that functionality. Do you have any articles on that? I'm really interested on what ecactly happened that time and considering the whole Nokia debacle...
  - toast0 2y ago
    Whatever Microsoft was doing, it's also the case that the social apps pulled back the APIs, as they wanted to own the feed views and push recommendations over chronological view. When Cambridge Analytica hit the news media, that was a nail in the coffin of open social APIs, but they were already dead.

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mastazi 2y ago

The website http://astronaut.io/ http://astronaut.io/ does a similar thing but for recent videos, and not just from iPhones. From the home page: > 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). At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia, and the next minute you are at a birthday in Ecuador. It's amazing!

Elfener 2y ago
For those using firefox's autoplay blocker, http://astronaut.io/ http://astronaut.io/ doesn't work at all unless you whitelist it.
- folmar 2y ago
  Works for me (current ESR on Linux).
- mastazi 2y ago
  It works if you use the default autoplay blocker setting ("block audio"). Probably you are using the setting "block audio and video" as default (I use that too) and in our case we have to whitelist it.
mikae1 2y ago
There were a bunch of subreddits based on obscure videos with default filenames. https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/
- Cthulhu_ 2y ago
  There is / was also r/DeepIntoYoutube which was dedicated to good videos that only had a handful of views. It reminds me of this grandma that played Skyrim for ages but never had any views, but thanks to one of these discover pages, she got a following of tens of thousands.

LeoPanthera 2y ago

Lots of digital cameras use an incrementing number in the filename. If you ignore the prefix part, I wonder what is the most commonly uploaded filename number for photos and videos?

dylan604 2y ago
IMG_XXXX is actually a standard for digital cameras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy... TFA, "Apple uses the ‘IMG_XXXX’ naming convention for all images and videos captured on iOS devices, where XXXX is a unique sequence number." isn't very accurate, as the numbers are not unique. They're just sequential. if you take 1001 images, the file system will actually create a new folder and roll the digits back to 0000 to avoid overwriting
- bewal416 2y ago
  Thanks for fact-checking me on this. When writing this, I didn’t consider what would happen on the 10,000th image. I will add an asterisk on this line!
- kalleboo 2y ago
  Although as that link says, the prefix depends on the manufacturer. My Sony Mavica cameras have MVC_, newer Sony cameras are DSC0, my Fujifilm cameras have DSCF, I think IMG_ is pretty unique to Apple
  - dylan604 2y ago
    >I think IMG_ is pretty unique to Apple You'd be thinking wrong. Canon cameras also use the IMG_ format. It's been a while since I've dealt with GoPros, but I'm pretty sure they are IMG_ as well. While it's nice to hold onto what you know from experience, extrapolating that to end-all-be-all knowledge is just not a good stance. Especially in the light of information from people with wider breadth of information.
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jsemrau 2y ago

Ah, this is where this comes from. There has been rumours flying around in Stable Diffusion / Flux circles that you would get much more realistic pictures when you include a photo id like IMG_0416.

Sharlin 2y ago
I don’t think it comes from these Youtube videos – Flickr and other photo upload services are a more likely source of training images with default file names.
- jsemrau 2y ago
  Maybe its a combination of both.
  - Sharlin 2y ago
    It seems exceedingly unlikely to me that frames from random YouTube videos would have been used to train image generation models. First off, they're difficult to extract and second, the quality of individual video frames is very low, especially if we're talking about 15 year old phone videos at what, 480p at the very best!
    - jsemrau 2y ago
      You are probably right. I approached it from a high-value dataset perspective but would agree that fuzzy frames probably don't help much.
aydyn 2y ago
Its not a rumor, you really do and you can try it out yourself. Unfortunately its very finnicky and you cant really leverage it to produce a realistic image of what you want since any further prompting seems to override it. Its like a ghost in the machine prompt.
- jsemrau 2y ago

bewal416 2y ago

Hey, OP here! This is my first ever HN post- I appreciate the warm reception. A couple hours after posting this on my site, I found this incredible vid of a woman telling her partner she’s pregnant. Incredibly heartfelt, and only 16 views https://youtu.be/refKFdcojlE?si=l-PssLVYmmOPjjjA https://youtu.be/refKFdcojlE?si=l-PssLVYmmOPjjjA It was posted over 10 years ago. I wonder if the family even knows that this video still exists.

theandrewbailey 2y ago
> Mar 14, 2014 That kid will be 10 soon.
- pavlov 2y ago
  Eleven in four months?
  - meowster 2y ago
    Presumably there are still about 9 months to go in that pregnancy before the child is born.
    - lukan 2y ago
      I always thought, that would make way more sense. But a bit harder to find exact dates probably ..
  - kelnos 2y ago
    Assuming it takes someone roughly 4-6 weeks to realize they are pregnant, the child was probably born in or around November 2014, and will be turning 10 in the next couple weeks. I suppose the woman filming the video could have taken much longer to realize (unlikely, but possible), or chose to wait to tell the father until several months later (also unlikely, but possible), but either way, the kid is turning 10 now-ish, not 11. It's also possible that this video was posted well after it was taken, in which case we can't say much about the age of the kid, except that it likely happened before this "Share to YouTube" functionality was removed from iOS.

flpm 2y ago

This makes me hopeful, the internet can still be interesting when we manage to break away from the attention trap of infinite feed and the prepared content designed to optimize likes. Feels like the raw homepages of a long time ago.

divbzero 2y ago

I love the potash game! That’s hilarious.

mikae1 2y ago

There were a bunch of subreddits based on obscure videos with default filenames. https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/

tokioyoyo 2y ago

A little bit tangent, and I'm definitely looking at it from rose colored glasses... but been playing with it for the 30 minutes, and most of the videos look so real? Like when you go on TikTok / Instagram nowadays, there are obviously unlimited amount of content. But there's this sense of everything being edited multiple times, people trying to create their own "brand", nothing looking real. It's a shame how we over-financialized everything and sucked out the fun. Or maybe I just got old. Side note, I'll also recommend people to look up "X city in 1990s / 2000s" on YouTube. San Francisco, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Toronto, London and etc. have cool slice of life content from people who were very into camcorders.

andai 2y ago
I see parallels with this and RuneScape. Now it's all about efficiently grinding stats or flipping stuff on the exchange. Back in the day it was all about trimming armor and buying gf.
- durumu 2y ago
  I think that has more to do with being a kid vs being an adult. Kids are probably still buying gfs on Roblox and Minecraft today (disclaimer: I have no idea what kids play these days lol)
  - account42 2y ago
    It's intelectually lazy to dismiss any concern about societal change as "you have just gotten old".
epcoa 2y ago
> I'm definitely looking at it from rose colored glasses It's not rose tinted glasses, it's just a poor comparison. The absolute vast majority of these videos have double digit if not any views. You're seeking them out, using a little quirk of naming and the poster's DGAFism. There is no pretense of promotion to a large audience or virality. Anything spoonfed you on a Tiktok or Instagram feed could not be more different. The default Youtube experience is the same as mass Tiktok. Moreover you can find plenty of similar material like this on Instagram and Tiktok if you go looking for it, that is after all what most people are using it for, bumming around with their friends. The algorithm isn't going to spoonfeed this to you, and obviously Youtube never did either.

pg_bot 2y ago

"Turn roll Nate roll some little" might be burned into my brain now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSWZduStYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSWZduStYs

meindnoch 2y ago

I want to play the potash game.

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yuliyp 2y ago
That's certainly one way to look at it. For sure there's a lot of stuff that shouldn't have been shared. And for sure probably was abused by pedos. That doesn't mean that was the only or even predominant use case. Most people using the internet never end up interacting with pedos in any way, and assuming that dealing with pedos is the driving force here feels a bit narrow-minded.
- dmead 2y ago
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mrtksn 2y ago

Digital version of "I just bought some films from a yard sale". The good old days before enshitification.

AI_beffr 2y ago
this is valid of course but it makes me think about how totally different this is to that. the world has changed even more in this case i think.

petercooper 2y ago

/r/DeepIntoYouTube addict here. There are a lot of patterns like this you can use to find bizarre YouTube videos with next to no views, based upon the default numbering scheme of various cameras. Just one example: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MVI_7812.MOV https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MVI_7812.MOV .. and yes, you can rattle through thousands of numbers for just that one.

joezydeco 2y ago
If you want to look for GoPro videos, start at GX010001.MP4 and increment from there.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y ago
  Mine start with GH, like GH011634.MP4
abixb 2y ago
Here's another ADORABLE one I found of a little kid almost getting the soccer ball into the net (MVI_1012.MOV) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6eYAxaXijc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6eYAxaXijc

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blululu 2y ago

This is cool. In a similar vein with a more continuous display, check out astronaut.io

butnougat43 2y ago

Worked great for me!

thelastparadise 2y ago
Likewise. Got an error at first, then it was working fine.
- butnougat43 2y ago
  Ah, yeah I did get a couple errors at first, but kept trying then it worked great.

redpandadolphin 2y ago

I did this and the 2nd video I found was of a recording of "Disco 2000" by the Pulp at a festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DCFCQ9GYUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DCFCQ9GYUY By coincidence this is one of my favourite songs by one of my favourite bands.

nocoiner 2y ago
Nice find. Also one of my favorite bands and one of my favorite songs of theirs. Edit: I found the set list for that show: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pulp/2011/hyde-park-london-england-7bd36e9c.html https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pulp/2011/hyde-park-london-en...

AI_beffr 2y ago

this is what youtube and reddit was like during 2011. it was calm, serene, accepting, warm, human. it was just this perfect mixture of user friendliness, people knowing how to type and use computers and just before the internet was taken seriously by anyone and corrupted by money. before social media became a serious political consideration. i remember very clearly that even at the time it felt too good to be true. these videos capture that feeling pretty well. it was all unfiltered and it made you feel like you were connected to the world. like you had your finger on the pulse of the world. or like the entire world was inside your computer. really warm fuzzy vibes. i still miss that. but now i am too busy to spend so much time on the computer anyway.

aucisson_masque 2y ago
You're speaking of a world that doesn't exist. Even back then people were trying to make money out of YouTube.
- ziddoap 2y ago
  >Even back then people were trying to make money out of YouTube It's a matter of degree. Early YouTube was much closer to what the parent poster describes than the YouTube of today. When I first discovered YouTube and uploaded videos, the thought of making money (let alone making a living) was nowhere in my mind.
- account42 2y ago
  There were people trying to make money but that wasn't the default and the attempts at doing so weren't as repetitive.
5040 2y ago
I miss those days too, but my recollection of Youtube is a little different. Lots of piracy for example.

brap 2y ago

I understand that these videos were made public, but still this kinda feels like violating people’s privacy. They most likely never intended for us all to watch their personal videos a decade later.

aucisson_masque 2y ago
It's no different of inadvertently watching your neighbor naked through her window because you happened to look at the wrong time. You know it's wrong but you won't look elsewhere...
- brap 2y ago
  True but I would probably not share her naked video on HN
- hsbauauvhabzb 2y ago
  It’s more like you’re continually checking hundreds of windows, just in case it happens…
  - deleted 2y ago
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- 93po 2y ago
  i mean i personally look elsewhere, bc getting caught looking would feel really shitty for them probably.
- ronsor 2y ago
  I think that is neither a normal situation to be in nor a normal thing to do.
  - aucisson_masque 2y ago
    Please define normality, in the meantime I'm giving a try : Normal men have balls, balls make man attracted to women -> normal men get their attention grabbed by inadvertently looking at pretty naked woman.

aaron695 2y ago

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siva7 2y ago

You’re all acting like these videos are from ancient times.

efilife 2y ago
In tech, ~12 years is a lot. Judging by how fast our devices evolve, they are ancient
- wussboy 2y ago
  But judging by any other criteria, they're just yesterday.

corobo 2y ago

I'd love a tech write up from the YouTube folks starting from when someone was wondering "Why is all this data waking up from the lukewarm storage layer today lmao" opens HN "ah ok"

spuds 2y ago

I love the rawness of this. I've noticed I tend towards a feeling of everyone else in the world being so alien, living some totally different incomprehensible life from mine. (Or more than I'm the alien, and everyone else is living a normal, enviable life.) Seeing little snapshots like these, most of them seemingly just for memory's sake, makes me feel a little more human. Hard to get on any social media, where there's also some curation going on.

anileated 2y ago
> I've noticed I tend towards a feeling of everyone else in the world being so alien, living some totally different incomprehensible life from mine. (Or more than I'm the alien, and everyone else is living a normal, enviable life.) Same. > Seeing little snapshots like these, most of them seemingly just for memory's sake, makes me feel a little more human. For me these videos only highlight the previously mentioned state of affairs.

slmjkdbtl 2y ago

Wow, I hope there's a similar video platform now, filled with casual everyday videos of normal people, it'll be precious documentation for human kind.

DidYaWipe 2y ago

Is what?

theyknowitsxmas 2y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xF-wxS1_ZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xF-wxS1_ZE

cedws 2y ago

Watching these videos made me sad. It's a stark reminder that the old internet I grew up with is over. And I'm not even that old. I miss the candid content, from when people just uploaded whatever they felt like without incentive. YouTube is an industrial clickbait farm now. Social media is driving people apart and turning them into narcissists.

fiatpandas 2y ago

Used to have a raspberry pi + small hdmi screen on a shelf, and it would randomly play these raw uploads 24/7, new video every 2 minutes. It was fun to encounter random home movies all day. Very hard to maintain due to use of YouTube-dl, plus legacy search API that I was eventually kicked off of after unsuccessfully arguing for my continued use as an art project. My version searched for 4-5 different camera prefixes including IMG_. Would be fun to remake the backend with a headless browser framework + YouTube-dl.

akersten 2y ago
> I was eventually kicked off Woah, can you expand on that? Did you get IP banned from YouTube?
- fiatpandas 2y ago
  No, to my memory they were phasing out the API except for case-by-case allowed usage. I think I opened a support ticket to justify continued access, with a description of my project, but they denied my use case. I can’t remember now if access was cut off, or if limits were dropped so low it was unusable, but the project became infeasible.
  - Ginger-Pickles 2y ago
    Same thing reported by author of: https://default-filename-tv.neocities.org/ https://default-filename-tv.neocities.org/
1una 2y ago
> Very hard to maintain due to use of YouTube-dl, plus legacy search API With yt-dlp you can do this: yt-dlp ytsearch5:IMG_0416 which searches for IMG_0416 and downloads the first 5 of them. There is no need to use YouTube API.
- fiatpandas 2y ago
  Great tip! Would love to not have to maintain a headless script. Just set YouTube-dl to update on a cronjob.

kayyyy 2y ago

Surprised that nobody is talking about the other obscure file name "Webcam video from" that was attached to untitled videos made in the webcam recorder that used to be built into the site.

tolerance 2y ago

This comes across to me like a sort of "voyeur porn"...in the sense like how "food porn" excites the stomach...and sports excites competitive spirit. What I'm gathering from the comments here is that these videos excite faculties of man that are less carnal than the other examples. Be that as it may.

totetsu 2y ago

Once upon a time you could do this directly on google with things like “index of” and find candid things from people’s shared folders

cambronnes 2y ago

This is so wholesome.

wkjagt 2y ago

Tangent, but I miss that iPhone era. I remember holding an iPhone for the first time. Someone showed me a map app (maybe Google Maps) and it took me a second to realize I was looking at a map of where I was, and remember thinking "how does it know?", and just being so mesmerized by it. And Angry Birds.

yeldarb 2y ago

It’s sad that only Google can (and honestly a bit surprising that Google hasn’t) use multimodal video models to index the semantic contents & transcripts of these videos for search. Huge long tail of unique content.

DriverDaily 2y ago
It is! I've often wanted to search for something that happens in a video instead of just the title, description, and keywords.
- tonyhart7 2y ago
  it would be a totally game changer and super helpful for months then people start abusing it to gain views anyway like the current web

pppoe 2y ago

This reminds me the trick to make recent text-to-image model generate highly realistic (but amateur) photos by adding "IMG_XXXX" into the prompt. Although these videos have nearly zero views on YouTube, they may be part of the training data behind these models.

sen 2y ago
It’s also the default naming for every digital SLR, phone camera, etc… lots of which upload with file name as title to Flickr and many other photo sharing services, most of which have also been used in training data. DSC, IMG, etc etc.
namaria 2y ago
Funny calling that a trick. These models 'generating' stuff is just recovering patterns compressed during the 'training'.

wingworks 2y ago

omg, where is this from? (some kinda app that overlayed 3d animations?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSWZduStYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSWZduStYs

all2 2y ago
That looks like a 2D image with an alpha channel based on the background color of the image. Watch the shadow of the bot as it crosses the edge if the desk.

blahgeek 2y ago

Reading half way through the post, I thought what the author going to do was to analyze the distribution of numbers in the filename, and, I don't know, maybe give an estimation about how often people take photos or videos, based on the time, country, etc. That would be an interesting study.

BandButcher 2y ago
ironically, im glad this post wasn't about that. that would've been too typical of HN imo. why talk about metadata when you can just enjoy the data itself??

dools 2y ago

In about 2007 or so my brother and I used to find super obscure blogs with no comments, read them and then write detailed responses to the author and share it with our friends. We always kept it positive, and said encouraging things. Most of the time the posts had been written in the 90s or early 2000s. We just did it knowing that probably one or two people would get notified of a new comment and maybe feel happy that someone read their post.

ddingus 2y ago
Cool! I have done that myself a time or two. Ever get a good response back? I have been surprised a time or two ending up in a conversation with someone who took the time same as I did. Just because we could.
necovek 2y ago
I think "blogs" as in "web logs" with features like comments (trackbacks and linkbacks came later) only appeared around 2000 or 2001. But still, plenty of blog posts from early 2000s to comment on in 2007, especially on the likes of LiveJournal or Blogger.
mr90210 2y ago
I think I am going to start doing that =D. I wonder what keywords or tricks I might use to find such blogs in the current days.

pradn 2y ago

Twitter used to have an app, Periscope. You could start a livestream any time, anywhere. And viewers could fine live streams on a world map. For a few months, it was possible to feel the incredible simultaneity and richness of human lives. Someone biking, another person cooking. Day in one place, night in another place. It was ahead of its time. And too expensive for Twitter to keep running for too long. But it was a precursor to today's Snapschat's map view and Instagram live streams.

tonyhart7 2y ago
they should bring it back
- ttul 2y ago
  I’m struggling to imagine Elon Musk doing that.
  - gpmcadam 2y ago
    Isn't that exactly what he did when live-streaming on X last year? https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1653608284606312448 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1653608284606312448 "This is 2015 Periscope code. Yeah, seems like we just need to improve it a bit."
- cylemons 2y ago
  I think Twitter is losing enough money already, doubt they could afford to do that
- stiltzkin 2y ago
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rasapetter 2y ago
And before that, there was Bambuser which was very similar to Periscope but launched some 8 years earlier. It never gained the popularity of Periscope, likely at least partly due to its Nordic rather than Bay Area roots - but, oh boy, was it fun! At any time of the day you could go to the website and watch normal people around the globe doing random stuff. And chat with them!There weren't any real influencers at the time (at least not on the platform) and monetization wasn't possible, so people's motivations for live streaming stuff was not to make money but rather the joy of sharing a moment or just experiencing new cool technology. It got a bit less joyful when the Arabic Spring started and the platform got used by many in very dire situations but it remained incredibly interesting to follow. The company still exists, though they stopped offering free-to-use consumer services long ago.

azhenley 2y ago

I wish I would _just_ create and share, instead of getting stuck in analysis paralysis trying to perfect it.

FactKnower69 2y ago

>YouTube automatically removes harmful or violent content What a bizarre and obviously false claim to make for no reason in the middle of the article

Lammy 2y ago

> Apple uses the ‘IMG_XXXX’ naming convention for all images and videos captured on iOS devices, where XXXX is a unique sequence number. For what it's worth, Apple are just conforming to the JEITA/CIPA DCF standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy... “DCF file names” specification sez… http://www.kronometric.org/phot/std/DC-009-2010_E.pdf#page=21 http://www.kronometric.org/phot/std/DC-009-2010_E.pdf#page=2... “File names conforming to the following rules are called DCF file names. • The file name is 8 characters (not including the file extension). • The first four characters consist only of the upper-case alphanumeric characters shown in Table 1 • These are referred to as the DCF file name Free characters. They shall not contain two-byte characters or special codes. • The four characters that follow are a number between "0001" and "9999". "0000" shall not be used. These four digits are referred to as File number. • Files with the same file number stored in the same DCF directory are considered to be object component files as defined in 4.3.2.”

rob74 2y ago
...and collisions between filenames that would happen because of the "wraparound" after 9999 images/videos are avoided by storing them in different directories.
agilob 2y ago
It's really cool that such standard exists, the worst thing about Pixel phones is stupid filenames of pictures and videos, not only it's not following this standard, but contains WRONG timestamp. For example, picture with name `PLX_20241101_115855.jpg` was taken at 12:58:55, not 11 as the name suggests, but also picture with name `PLX_20240913_191525.jpg` was taken at 19:15:25. A video on the other hand would have a timestamp offset -1, the offset changes depending on time of the year and it's different for pictures and videos. It's annoying af, because pictures and videos in the same folder will not be sorted chronologically by filename.
- nasretdinov 2y ago
  Potentially daylight savings related? E.g. file names are in UTC, whereas local time obviously isn't

UberFly 2y ago

So many touching snapshots into the actually important things in life. Very cool.

ttul 2y ago

https://youtu.be/9oAP2A98qLc?si=MaRGwcJlIyV0-Iff https://youtu.be/9oAP2A98qLc?si=MaRGwcJlIyV0-Iff “THE CULT- SHE SELLS SANCTUARY- LIVE DETROIT 2010” Pretty great.

adamredwoods 2y ago

Very heartwarming. I have an "android named" video uploaded to YouTube a few years ago, and because there is copyrighted background music going on (which I didn't realize at the time) YouTube is threatening to delete it. I don't know if they will or not, not sure when they put the "will delete" tag on it. My late wife is in it. She died recently. I didn't know that video was still up there until I read your post. And now my heart breaks.

walthamstow 2y ago
If you can send me the link I will happily rip it from YouTube for you and send it to you via any method you prefer. Sorry for your loss.
mtwshngtn 2y ago
If you remember the account details to log in to the account which uploaded that video, you can go to https://studio.youtube.com https://studio.youtube.com, click "Content", and under the 3-dot menu for each video you can click "Download" to get Youtube's copy of your video. Hoping that helps. Otherwise, you might try something like https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.
ComputerGuru 2y ago
YouTube now has a new feature to replace copyrighted background soundtracks with free ones automatically, using some AI magic to edit the movie while preserving views, links, likes, etc. Very nice feature, though I haven’t used it myself to say if it works as labeled. It should be an option now when you get a violation warning.

benreesman 2y ago

Oh man this is so great: I’ve been having a shitty day and I’ve been smiling from ear to ear since about the second paragraph of this post. When no one is trying to actively distort the Internet for monetization it’s every bit as magical as it was in September of 1994 and I remember why I took this up as a trade. Good job on putting this #1 HN.

energy123 2y ago

Scrape and preserve these videos, someone

ddingus 2y ago

I found a band I really like by searching on the ampersand, "&" https://youtu.be/pLJ85XExZtQ?si=75ZykQeUjgItcpDM https://youtu.be/pLJ85XExZtQ?si=75ZykQeUjgItcpDM Not sure what triggered it, but I began odd searches a while ago and want to echo many of the "feels like the good old days" type comments. Video made without any real production intent is compelling. It is pure, raw, just human and many of us hunger for that because the big media players dominate hard for fear of losing to their peers it seems. And that behavior is expensive to us.

binary_slinger 2y ago

This reminds me of something I've been thinking a lot about. which i think is big techs greatest failure: interoperability I first thought of this when seeing someone take a picture of their computer screen. There is just so much friction in moving data. I should be able to take anything off any screen and move the source material to any other screen on any device or cloud with a simple 1-click process. Including the devices of a friend or family member. Microsoft forced OEM's to replace the right ctrl key with a copilot key. really it should have been an 'interoperability' key.

itsgabriel 2y ago
It's not a failure, it's big techs greatest feature. Try to imagine the likes of Windows, Office, Apple, AWS, Social Media etc. without lock-in, network effect or all the other names for missing interoperability.
eproxus 2y ago
I usually joke that the hardest problem in computer science that is not yet solved is sending a file between two devices.
- siriushacker 2y ago
  Email baby!
  - layer8 2y ago
    Only up to 18 MB or so. ;)
    - account42 2y ago
      And not always instant.
    - creole_wither 2y ago
      uunencode the data and split into as many emails as necessary

londons_explore 2y ago

I have uploaded a bunch of similar stuff... Videos are so big and cloud storage for it pretty expensive. since nothing I film is nuclear launch codes, I just upload it all to youtube as a way to store it for free. Also gives me a handy sharing link for sending to friends too.

agilob 2y ago

>Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app. A feature Nokia with Android One used to have too, but Android itself doesn't have.

redbell 2y ago

Excellent read, OP! I really enjoyed this, especially being your very first post here. I hope to see more posts from you in the future. I didn't know this feature existed back in the days, and you just cannot ignore the haptic feedback feeling when you watch original, unedited content from random people who were filming not for the sake of publishing to the mass but just for themselves and friends/family to keep these records as memories. This reminds me of the pre-smartphone era where people used to own handheld, personal cameras to capture special moments of their lives as souvenirs. Also, regarding these "IMG_XXX" videos, one notable pattern is that they all have very low number views, for an obvious reason. The odd one to this pattern is this pregnancy video, which had the number of views jumped from 16 in ten years to to 1,650 in 10 hours. Also, checking the comments' section, they are all new, with the first (oldest) one being posted 9 hours ago.

mrs6969 2y ago

Just entered my birthday too, and found one of the cutest baby video ever Thanks for the article

guardian5x 2y ago

I wonder if we will soon have Data Archeologists, who will try to find these hidden long forgotten gems on the Internet.

hacker_88 2y ago

It's like one day on earth project, but for every day

CMay 2y ago

From my notes. Maybe it's useful to someone. Not comprehensive as there are other brands and other iterations I'm sure. Many dpreview.com sample galleries show original filenames. Some forums list filenames, youtube descriptions can list model names, pdf manuals and manufacturer websites sometimes list the names. There isn't really a good list of these that I know of. ○ Apple - IMG_0001 ○ BlackMagic Design - A001 * C001 ○ Canon - 100-0001 - 101-0001 - 10x-0001 - IMG_0001 - MVI_0001.MOV ○ Casio - CIMG001 - CIMG0001 ○ Fuji - DSCF0001 ○ GoPro - GX010001.MP4 - GH010001.MP4 ○ HP - HPIM0001 ○ Jenoptik - JD0001 ○ JVC - MOV_0001.mpg ○ Kodak - P0000001.KDC - DCP_0001 - 102_0001 ○ Konica Minolta - PICT0001 ○ Kyocera - KIF 0001 ○ Nikon - DSCN0001 - DSC_0001 ○ Nokia - DCM001 - DCM0001 ○ Olympus - Pmdd0001 ○ Panasonic - Pmdd 0001 - P1000001 - P0001 ○ Pentax - IMGP0001 ○ Polaroid - DSCI0001 ○ Ricoh - R0010001 - R0020001 ○ Samsung - P1000001 - SAM 0001 - SH100001 - SV100001 - S7000001 ○ Sanyo - SANY0001 ○ Sigma - IMG0001 ○ Sony - DSC0001 - DSC00001 - DSC_0001 - MAH00001 ○ Misc - Mmddyy-hhmmss - Yymmdd-hhmm-ss - yyyymmdd_hhmmss - VID_yyyymmdd - mmddyy 3g2 - mmddyy 3gp - PXL_yyyymmdd_hhmmssms.mp4 Though in writing this and looking something up, I just came across this github that could be useful: https://github.com/thorsted/digicam_corpus https://github.com/thorsted/digicam_corpus

CarVac 2y ago
Pro-level (1D) Canons let you set the three prefix letters.
- zipmapfoldright 2y ago
  what's the default though? defaults matter, most people don't change them.
eftpotrm 2y ago
Nikon defaulted to DSC_0001 for some time now, may still do but I don't have any Z series gear to check.
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sourcepluck 2y ago

> YouTube automatically removes harmful or violent content, so what remains exists in a unique, almost paradoxical state: forbidden, yet harmless. What exactly is forbidden, by who? I don't get the use of that word there. Also, anyone who doesn't know the "before" and "after" search operators is missing out on some excellent nostalgia-trawling similar to what is described here. "cat before:2007" -> 2005 to 2007, the OG cat videos "skateboard before:2010" -> yes "assange interview before:2016" -> then filter for longer videos "parkour after:2009 before:2015" -> parkour videos from 2009 to 2015

bewal416 2y ago
Hey! My intention with this sentence is to say that although the content is publicly available, the viewer may feel like they're still "not allowed" to be watching it. Others in the comments articulated this better than me: > I understand that these videos were made public, but still this kinda feels like violating people’s privacy. They most likely never intended for us all to watch their personal videos a decade later. I tried to distill it in a couple words in the blog, bc I didn't want to harp on it. In retrospect, I could've explained it better.
elboru 2y ago
Thanks for this, a few months ago I was trying to find an old video but it was impossible to find with regular queries, there's just too much SEO garbage recently added to YouTube.
kentosi-dw 2y ago
Thank you so much for this! I love & miss all the videos from the old days.

plingbang 2y ago

Some time ago there was a website that showed you a random YouTube video. Like truly random. The biggest discovery to me was that a typical video has 0-1 views, nearly always <10. I bet most people don't realize this is how YouTube actually looks like. And I guess it's also a good small reminder to all people trying to become famous on social media. I believe the website tried to find videos with least bias possible by doing some clever searches using YouTube API (so not just videos titled IMGXXXX). Maybe it was trying to do partial matches on video ID.

danhau 2y ago
> The biggest discovery to me was that a typical video has 0-1 views, nearly always <10. I bet most people don't realize this is how YouTube actually looks like. This is also interesting when thinking about how to optimize a video platform. You can see how the vast majority of videos could be evicted to cold / slow storage.

shark1 2y ago

All of these ordinary footages should be preserved.

brandonpelfrey 2y ago

I personally don't have a problem with this, but this really made me feel like I don't understand the community of this forum sometimes. HN every day has multiple posts which drive so many comments about how privacy is lost and everything needs full E2EE, trust no one, etc. Then there is this post which is also a breach of privacy (much more than some things complain about), and yet the reaction is "wow, this is so pure and amazing to view into these candid moments". It feels like some cognitive dissonance. Still, personally I thought this was a cool post.

philipwhiuk 2y ago
This website isn't a breach of privacy. The original upload process wasn't privacy preserving. The videos are already public on YouTube.
virgil_disgr4ce 2y ago
How is this a breach of privacy?
- dewey 2y ago
  If it's that easy to upload a video from your camera roll to YouTube (Two clicks) it's not that hard to imagine that this can happen by mistake or by someone who doesn't know that it uploads as "public" by default. Maybe they just wanted to send this video to a friend and didn't have the technical understanding that this will then be visible for everyone searching for it on YouTube.
kartoffelsaft 2y ago
There are a few things that come to mind that make this different: 1. This isn't really privacy breaching. For someone who taps the "share to youtube" button without knowing what it means, sure, but even that is pretty explicit that you're sharing it. Not sure why the article itself says people didn't know what the button would do before tapping it, so I'd like some further explanation of this point. 2. It's opt in, not opt out. Spending time with most "normal" people has shown me that very few people give a crap about going into settings menus to configure exactly how ther data is used or collected, or otherwise switching to a service that gives them that control. When HN complains about privacy being dead, they are complaining about this apathy end how it gets exploited. This feature does not exploit that apathy. 3. This gives us something that we actually want. When most services invade your privacy, it's usually for things like advertising, targeting content, and data brokering. Things that I know I personally have a lot of issues with, and I feel I'm not alone. This button doesn't do those things, it just gives us interesting videos. So much so that most of the fascination with these videos is that you can feel the absence of those issues.

skp1995 2y ago

I am missing the link to the thread, but diffusion models also give a very consistent output when prompted with `IMG_{number}` part of the reason could be the training data distribution

nullsmack 2y ago

Other/older digital cameras used similar sequences of letters and numbers like DSC_0001 and a few more I can't remember atm. It might be fun to search for those too.

aalchek 2y ago

Very cool- always good to appreciate how tech has evolved and some of the culture and technical branches that have stemmed from that

omiid 2y ago

I can't believe how many random memories YouTube may contain! It's amazing!

BillTthree 2y ago

Gunshots at 1:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR3mv5SbAi4&t=17s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR3mv5SbAi4&t=17s Maybe a slamming door, why so many slams? Obvious barking dog, then the wicked desperate woman's scream

facialwipe 2y ago

The article is mildly infuriating. Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” Proceeds to feature two videos from 2015.

vlad-asis 2y ago

nice! I'm really lucky having this cool video (4 views) for my birthday dates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOs05AhmxDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOs05AhmxDU

jeegsy 2y ago

I'm so glad these videos are still on there. As much as I consume youtube now, this brings back memories of when it was literally "YOUtube". Truly a glorious time!

JohnMakin 2y ago

You used to be able to do something similar (probably still can) by using common URL patterns for insecure/unauthenticated security camera feeds. You could even use google to find them! I loved the late 00's/early 10's web.