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Geek Blight
Personal blog · rg3.name · on HN as rg3programmingsystems
Geek Blight is a personal blog at rg3.name about programming and systems. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “The fantastic YouTube-dl team”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by a commenter in the youtube-dl restoration thread as a source. The post is by youtube-dl's original author and tells the story of why the script was written, to download YouTube videos and name the files.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The fantastic YouTube-dl team2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-11-23
- Origins of the youtube-dl project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-10
What Hacker News says?
Add to this that the original author recently posted a story about the origins of the youtube-dl script admitting it was designed to do:- download YouTube videos and name the downloaded files appropriately. https://rg3.name/202011071352.html Under DMCA, neither writing a script like youtube-dl nor using it is prohibited (making an unauthorised copy of a video could be fair use).FN1 Section 1201 however prohibits dis…
Comment linking /202011071352.html
on “YouTube-dl's repository has been restored”Submitted Origins of the youtube-dl project as a story · 559 points
HN discussionThanks for your kind words on behalf of the current team.[1] [1] http://rg3.name/201408141628.html
Comment linking /201408141628.html
on “YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader”Submitted My mesh shaders talk at XDC 2022 as a story · 60 points
HN discussionIt'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 to watch a video I liked a second time. It took ages. There were Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox that weren't working when I tried them, so I decided to start a new project in Python, using the standard urllib2. I made it command line beca…
Comment linking /201408141628.html
on “Youtube-dl”Submitted The fantastic YouTube-dl team as a story · 50 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is the X.Org Foundation, anyway? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted GCC surprisingly slow with #pragma once as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes about VK_EXT_custom_resolve as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedding YouTube videos without making your site fatter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state Released for Vulkan as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slimbook Essential 14“ Review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Year-end donations round, 2020 edition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Release announcements as a story · 1 points
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