1.8B views · Oct 25, 2009 · 3:34 · 0 HN recommenders · 20 mentions · discussed 2013–2023
The official music video for Rick Astley's 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up, the song behind the Rickroll internet prank.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN mostly uses it as a Rickroll joke or as a stand-in test URL for tools handling YouTube links.
“I tried linking to the rick roll video (just as a test url) and it breaks”
Used as a test URL that breaks Linkmoji
I tried linking to the rick roll video (just as a test url) and it breaks because it seems to lowercase everything. Original url : this video Linkmoji url : link After following the link : link And then you get a 404 not found
“For example: mpv”
Example URL for playing YouTube via mpv
I'm gonna be trying it out, since another commenter mentioned it's powered by mpv. Although, as I have very basic requirements, I'm already perfectly content with starting up mpv from the cli or by using mpv.app. If you try this out and feel like it's not what you're looking for, I'd suggest trying out mpv [0] directly. It integrates youtube-dl [1], so you can easily watch YouTube, as well as from the other hundreds of sources they support, very easily. For example: mpv this video The most recent macOS update brought a picture-in-picture feature, where you could keep videos playing on top of everything else in one side of the screen. With mpv you can get a close approximation by using the "--ontop" flag. Although admittedly it's not quite as nice as the new built-in feature. And a bit tangential to the whole thing, I found mpv's C API [2] to be very approachable and well documented. [0] link [1] link [2] link
“mpv --no-video”
Example URL for mpv playback
Yes, he's at the mercy of YouTube since he's building on the platform in violation of its ToS. But as a consumer, you can use the youtube-dl script ( link ) along with mpv ( link ) to play YouTube videos as you wish. Example: mpv this video mpv --no-video this video mpv <pretty much any video / streaming site in existence> Both packages are available in your nearest package manager, i.e. brew for MacOS, MSYS2 for Windows, etc.
“There's actually an 8k version out as well although the interpolation is a bit funky in some places”
Points to an 8k upscaled version
There's actually an 8k version out as well although the interpolation is a bit funky in some places: this video
Example embed markup being translated to an iframe
I believe this is about allowing this kind of markup (that exists on old web pages that haven’t been updated for a long time) to still work: <embed this video … by roughly translating it into <iframe this video Probably also the <object> equivalent, maybe only that and not <embed>, I’m not sure. I never had a great deal to do with those two tags. I don’t know why it has to be done this way. I’d have thought that without this extra code it’d roughly fall back to being an iframe on the original URL, and then YouTube could just check if it’s in a frame and behave as an embed instead of the main UI. But there’s probably a reason why they’ve all done it this kind of way.
“Changing a video URL from www.youtube.com to www.pwnyoutube.com redirects there.”
Example of pwnyoutube workaround URL
My current work-around is link and then click 'clean viewer'. Changing a video URL from www.youtube.com to www.pwnyoutube.com redirects there. Example this video
There is this pretty cool research project at Stanford (it's headed by Andrew Ng of the Coursera fame) that uses NLP and machine learning to detect content that the user might prefer not to see. It's still pretty rough around the edges but this demo is pretty cool. this video
This is neat but putting it in front of the URL gives me: GIF this video Which doesn't work. I am amazed that Google hasn't complained about the gifyoutube.com domain.
From any Linux (or probably OS X) workstation / server, you can run the command "host -t TXT jaimehankins.co.uk" ie: $ host -t TXT jamiehankins.co.uk ;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode. jamiehankins.co.uk descriptive text "<iframe width='420' height='315' this video frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>" jamiehankins.co.uk descriptive text "v=spf1 include:spf.mandrillapp.com ?all" jamiehankins.co.uk descriptive text "<script src='//peniscorp.com/topkek.js'></script>" jamiehankins.co.uk descriptive text "google-site-verification=nZUP4BagJAjQZO6AImXyzJZBXBf9s1FbDZr8pzNLTCI"
A while ago I experimented with adding stuff to the version.bind field in bind. Just updated it: mike@glue:~$ dig +short chaos txt version.bind @198.211.125.252 "<iframe width='420' height='315' this video frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>" I put this in my named.conf: version "<iframe width='420' height='315' this video frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>"; This site is vulnerable: link Although takes a minute before it kicks in. I did report it to them at the time, but never got a response.
Came to say this. A head to head game in the vacuum of a single match, like, say, Chess or Go or Starcraft, is conducive to certain kinds of strategies. You have one opponent and no teammates. Your win is his loss. It's black and white, clearer what you're trying to accomplish. Not all games (or "games", i.e. business) are this simple. There can be multiple players. You may have teammates, or you may need to forge alliances. You may then need to break alliances. There can be multiple degrees of victory or defeat, and multiple paths to victory. Being unpredictable is inherently scary. It's effective in direct conflict because your opponent must account for more possible future situations, diluting his ability to attack you directly, or thwart your true attack directly. Exactly what makes this effective in direct conflict, makes it a liability when seeking alliances. People will not want to cooperate with you if they aren't comfortable in their prediction that cooperation will be beneficial, so they'll only do it if the alternative is worse. Being predictable makes it easy for people to work with you. This opens you up to many opportunities for cooperation you'd otherwise miss. When cooperation is essential to victory, this is immensely powerful and puts a hard limit on how unpredictable you want to be if you'd like to win. And heck, in life and business, maybe relationships with people are most valuable trophy anyway, i.e. this video
You forgot to mention that you should use "tip" instead of "top" in this idiom. Here is a video with more detail: this video
To rephrase, it's not starting the blog itself (that's filling in a template) but coming up with & creating content (that is, the problem facing all content creators). Oh and by the way, this one has much better info: this video
I never said it was bad, it was an observation with other brands. Ps. I don't trust a lot of research online : this video
Yeah, I want to echo this. The recent-ish rise in drop-bear attacks is also a bit of a pizza effect. It seems that the increase can be traced back to a bacteria that irritates the mouth of the drop bear, making them more prone to attacking humans and other large creatures. Recent results state that the bacterial strain was a mutant strain that originated in a Swedish zoo exhibit of drop bears that were on loan from the Australian government. When one of the mating pair was returned to Australia, the bacteria spread like wildfire (no pun intended) to the wild populations and captive ones. More can be found here: this video
A crowd funding campaign has been started to finance one. I'm already a part of it. The introduction video explaining how to join can be found here: this video
Just got in. Greeted as a bot and got a several text messages: 1) tomas say: ya ne botcurl 2) ya tozhe ne bot 3) XSS. Deleted. vk.com/oldlentach 4) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 5) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 6) Message from bots: we will rule the world some day! ~overc9001 (totally a bot) Missed 7th as it disappeared to quickly and got redirected to this video What does it all mean?
'The internet is obsessed with two songs and two songs only. But for different reasons. The first is Smash Mouth’s “All Star.”'... 'The world wide web’s other musical obsession though legitimately rules—Toto’s “Africa.”' Surely this is in with a shout? this video
Sadly this is outdated. On September 16th, 2021 the ESA announced a delay of the launch until mid-2023 to repair pieces of the spacecraft dislodged during transportation to the launch site [0]. More info on the video including damages. [0] this video
"Stable Diffusion" is referring to one specific set of models, which were trained on a dataset including some porn. The official implementation has a second model that detects pornography, and replaces outputs including it with a picture of this dude this video (Not kidding). Removing that is a really simple a one line change in the official script.
