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Side comment: when I watch YouTube content on my iPad, I normally use the Brave browser instead of the app. It has a built-in ad blocker that works well on YouTube.

Thanks, I've reported that to the current maintainers.

Note in C you can get the correct result if you use long doubles, which normally go to 80 bits[1]: printf("%Lf\n", 9999999999999999.0L - 9999999999999998.0L); In my x86_64 computer…

Thanks for your kind words on behalf of the current team.[1] [1] http://rg3.name/201408141628.html

Actually, the project started as far back as 2006 and moved to git in 2008, hence the first commit having that date. I don't remember the exact day I started the project, but on fr…

youtube-dl -F VIDEO_URL will give you a list of formats in YouTube, that you can choose using the -f option. DASH streams contain only video or only audio normally.

If your phone supports OGG and you're downloading from YouTube, you can download format 171 (-f 171) and change the container to OGG with ffmpeg. That way you won't lose any qualit…

If your music player supports OGG, you can also use youtube-dl -f FORMAT VIDEO_URL and give a numeric format that corresponds to a DASH webm audio-only stream, with vorbis audio (e…

As it was pointed out the first time youtube-dl was on Hacker News, our user base seems to be split regarding that behavior. When you copy a URL from a playlist, the URL includes b…

Well, this is going to be more of a philosophical answer than a technical one: with the popularity of YouTube nowadays, which is available on every platform and allows for anyone, …

The current team should have more information, but I think most updates are due to other sites breaking and new sites being added that due to YouTube or bug fixes. I don't think Yo…

I agree. It's a consequence of the software being very volatile, having thousands of users and supporting so many sites. There's something to fix or to add every day.

That was indeed the original purpose.

Awesome! Not long ago I switched to mpv from mplayer. mpv being able to use youtube-dl without any glue script would be fantastic.

I think it's a legitimate choice. Personally I'm not worried my work is being used that way, as long as the original project is available and works.

It's very nice to see a project I started reach the front page of HN. I remember starting the project around 2006. Back then, I had a dial-up connection and it wasn't easy for me t…

If you already have an Android phone, I guess the RedPhone app is the most convenient and cheap way to make encrypted voice calls. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org…

Wow. I was still using it to monitor new releases of iotop. I think this is going to be shocking news for anyone who was running Linux or BSDs in the early 2000s.

Totally agree. As things are currently, wouldn't it be best if the story link was to the actual original post? https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...

> It sets a bad precedent if government can dictate software features. I don't think there's anything wrong with the government dictating software features for the software they wa…

I'm currently playing Dark Souls under Windows (I bought it during a Steam sale some days ago), and don't understand this. When the game launches it needs and account in "Games for…

I can't speak for the OP, but where I live in Spain it's not uncommon for a standard coffee to be about... €1.2 to €1.5.

I really like the refactoring done here. Congratulations to the author. He did an excellent job, IMHO. There's one thing missing that I always wanted to have: put the contents of t…