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HackerTube is a YouTube-style site that surfaces videos recommended in Hacker News comments rather than relying on YouTube’s recommendation system. Built over roughly two hours with Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 through Claude Code, the site indexes 6,454 YouTube videos drawn from about 40,000 Hacker News comments posted between 2007 and 2026, organized across 150 topics. Opus downloaded and filtered Hacker News comments, used Sonnet in a Claude Code workflow to remove spam, identified comments recommending YouTube videos, and generated the site’s interface and deployment. HackerTube uses a frame taken halfway through each video instead of the creator-uploaded thumbnail. It also provides personalized “For You” recommendations without user accounts, retaining state in the local browser session, along with keyboard shortcuts and an export of the site’s data for users who want to build a similar service. The creator used Claude Code’s Mac desktop application with Opus 5.5 set to Medium effort. Manual steps were limited to creating a Google Cloud API key for YouTube metadata, starting a VPS, and purchasing the Hackertube.org domain. After receiving the VPS IP address, Claude Code updated, deployed, secured, hardened, and optimized the software, according to the creator.