Le Tube

Le Tube

Shows a video browsing page in the style of YouTube, ranked for curious people beyond programming, with your likes and history kept in your own browser.

Made by loubnabnl on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face.

About

What it is: Le Tube is a page of videos worth watching, laid out like YouTube. It starts from the videos that Hacker News has recommended over 20 years, then re-ranks them for everyone, not only programmers. It leans toward society, culture, mind and body, and documentaries, and adds French documentaries, wildlife films and gaming documentaries.

Who it suits: People who want a calm place to find something good to watch, without an engagement feed or short clips.

Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example
Education | Students and teachers | Browse documentaries and talks on many subjects | Finding a documentary to share with a class
Media | Curious general viewers | Tune the topic mix and style to their taste | Moving the mix away from code toward culture
Research | People who like long-form video | Let likes steer the feed over time | Liking a few wildlife films to see more of them

If you only want a normal YouTube account with its own recommendations, you can skip it.

Where to use it:

• A web browser, on the Space's page at Hugging Face
• Windows, macOS or Linux, by opening a downloaded copy of index.html in a browser

Use case | Who | What they get back
Browse recommended videos | Anyone curious | A feed of videos picked for a wide audience
Shape the feed | Regular visitors | A mix tuned by topic, style and likes
Watch French documentaries | Documentary fans | A set of French titles added to the collection

How to set it up: Online, nothing needs installing. For a copy on your own computer you need a browser and a little Python.

• A web browser
• Python and the pip tool, only for the download step

1. Install the Hugging Face hub package with pip.
2. Download the Space's files into a folder.
3. Move into that folder.
4. Open index.html in a web browser.

pip install -U huggingface_hub
hf download loubnabnl/le-tube --repo-type space --local-dir le-tube
cd le-tube

How to use it: Open the Space's page on Hugging Face, or index.html from a local copy. Browse the videos, adjust the topic mix and style, and like what you enjoy so your feed follows your taste. Your likes and history stay in your browser.

hf download loubnabnl/le-tube --repo-type space --local-dir le-tube

Example: You open the page and like three wildlife films. You then move the topic mix toward nature and documentaries. The feed shifts toward more of those videos, and nothing about your likes leaves your browser.

For newcomers and experts: Think of it as a video shelf with no engagement chasing. To start, open the page, scroll the feed and press like on a few videos you enjoy. The feed then leans toward them.

Under the hood it is static HTML with JSON data files, so there is no server and no account. The collection comes from the HackerTube data set, which is built from open-index/hacker-news, plus official YouTube channels. Views, dates and durations come from the YouTube Data API. The trade-off is that data is fixed in the files, so the shelf only changes when the files do.

Open the page in a browser
Static page loads its JSON video data
Tune topic mix and style
Likes steer the feed

Good to know:

• License: ODC-By
• Cost to run: none named
• Data it reaches: video data files in the Space, and your likes and history, which stay in your browser
• Not for: anyone looking for an official page, since the author states no ties to YouTube, Hacker News or HackerTube

On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026

• Likes: 5
• Built with: static
• License: odc-by

Links

• Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/loubnabnl/le-tube
• Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/loubnabnl/le-tube/tree/main

Try it

Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself.