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Post by NoodleIncident »

dheera wrote: post #9
dom96 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This would be noteworthy if the counter was included in the video Pretty sure that would be impossible, unless I am missing something.

Yeah unfortunately Youtube doesn't let you edit videos, which sucks for creators who want to fix minor mistakes after a video has gone viral. You can, however, add and edit "cards" on top of the video. On another note, it would be noteworthy if the title on Hacker News also included the counter.

If such a feature existed, it would be used for abuse 99% of the time

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Post by sjilo »

diggan wrote: post #23
travisjungroth wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working.

That's a grand assumption :) Who knows whos GitHub code will be included in the "Big MasterScript" that is written into the consciousness of the universe in the future, making it forever. I know, far out there and in theory, I agree with you, everything is temporary and nothing is forever. But who knows, maybe in the future, things will no longer be ephemeral.

Probably left-pad

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Post by thomasahle »

danbruc wrote: post #5

If it's actually spot on, it's a miracle. I got the counter and the title both showing 3,690,744 when I first opened the link - so how unlikely is this actually? Probably not really too unlikely. Or I got really lucky. EDIT: Thinking about it, as YouTube probably updates the view count only every couple of seconds or minutes it might actually be spot on most of the time if the title gets updated at about the same fre…

I think his point was more that it won't increase every time you refresh the page.

But then neither will the actual view counter.

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Post by zwily »

diggan wrote: post #25
donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

> I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before back to English, just for kicks. Yahoo Pipes was one of the greatest services I used, just when I started getting into programming. Maybe it was so cool because I was naive, but I really miss being able to pipe services together in the same way. Anyone know of any similar attempts that is open…

I don’t, but Node Red is giving me the same fun feeling I had with Yahoo Pipes, but for Home Automation.

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Post by onli »

diggan wrote: post #25
donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

> I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before back to English, just for kicks. Yahoo Pipes was one of the greatest services I used, just when I started getting into programming. Maybe it was so cool because I was naive, but I really miss being able to pipe services together in the same way. Anyone know of any similar attempts that is open…

Not sure about open source and paid hosting, but there is node-red, https://nodered.org/, which is open source and easy to get started with. Combining stuff is something Zapier excels in, https://zapier.com/, and the free tier can suffice for some tasks (not open source). You could also try my attempt at a spiritual pipes successor, https://www.pipes.digital/ (but it's also not open source). If there is something missing there to reproduce how you used Yahoo Pipes I'd definitely be interested in hearing from you, so I can restore it :)

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

travisjungroth wrote: post #19
djhworld wrote: post #11

I really liked this video, it highlights that a lot of software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working. The frequently updating title thing is cute, it'll be interesting to see what dies first - YouTube pulling the "title update API" or Tom's script running wherever he's put it

All the software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working.

Unless you're a game developer! Lots of people are still playing Super Mario Brothers daily! They're running it in an emulator now, most probably, but all of the original code is doing the work.

Obviously it won't outlast the heat death of the universe or anything, but I'd say it's has the potential to live as long as any other human creation.

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Post by libria »

diggan wrote: post #18

Reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902 ("Show HN: This up votes itself") which I came across right after joining HN and really set the tone for what HN is really all about, for me. Thanks olalonde :)

> really set the tone for what HN is really all about, for me

Can't tell if you're referring to clever hacks or upvote farming, but I agree!

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Post by baddox »

dom96 wrote: post #4
ggambetta wrote: post #2

This would be noteworthy if the counter was included in the video (like the similar video that shows its own URL [0]). But as it is, it's just the title that changes to match the number of views, so... not much to see here. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20452013

> This would be noteworthy if the counter was included in the video Pretty sure that would be impossible, unless I am missing something.

It would start out working fine at zero.

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Post by hugs »

As the founder of one of the screen-scraping tools he alluded to in the video (Selenium), I just want to say the video has one of the best explanations for the difference between automating a process through a user interface vs an API. In the end, entropy always gets you, but you can push it off a little bit longer if there's an API.

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Post by routerl »

diggan wrote: post #25
donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

> I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before back to English, just for kicks. Yahoo Pipes was one of the greatest services I used, just when I started getting into programming. Maybe it was so cool because I was naive, but I really miss being able to pipe services together in the same way. Anyone know of any similar attempts that is open…

I haven't used it but https://n8n.io/

It reminds me of zapier, which reminds me of Yahoo pipes.

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