YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderAmazing concept. This was an incredible thing to uncover during my few minutes on the site: https://youtu.be/1rvPbeHjzlk It's a video of a woman reciting a poem that she wrote for her eldest son that speaks of her love for her son and her wish that he would get "off the streets". Emotional, honest, real. YouTube like I've never experienced. Brilliant.
This is Andrew Wong (@wongavision), one of the creators of astronaut. I'm amazed this has appeared on HN on it's own, thanks KeatonDunsford! Reading these comments is heartwarming, as it appears like many of you are experiencing and feeling what James Thompson (@astrojams1) and I set out to make. The idea was to create a glimpse into the unedited world. The videos are current and to some extent unbiased and of the world. The lack of 'control' is by design…
Browsing quickly a few random videos is a nice concept to get a glimpse at what random people do. (reminds me of "zapping" on Canal+) I noticed same people on different videos, and was thinking the "randomness" might not be so random. I wonder what's the algorithm to pick a random video?
(This will seriously mess up your history if you're logged in...) 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432772 (1362 points, 239 comments) 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225 (429 points; 140 comments)
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1805
- Total comments
- 375
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-16 | Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous viewsFirst breakout | KeatonDunsford | 429 | 136 |
| 2019-07-14 | YouTube videos that have almost zero previous viewsBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | monort | 1362 | 232 |
| 2020-05-19 | A couple seconds of random YouTube videos with few views | vitabenes | 4 | 2 |
| 2021-03-14 | Astronaut.io | guerrilla | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-08-03 | Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous viewsHall induction | password4321 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023-08-21 | Astronaut: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views | mutant_glofish | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-06-09 | Astronaut - YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views | password4321 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-03-13 | YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views | Zealotux | 2 | 1 |