OpenAI: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "OpenAI Codex Live Demo", hN points to it as an early, impressive demonstration that LLMs could write working code.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2021–2025demoHN points to it as an early, impressive demonstration that LLMs could write working code.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2019–2024demoHN uses it as a vivid example of emergent behavior from multi-agent reinforcement learning, and as a way to make AI misalignment concerns feel concrete.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2023–2025demoHN refers back to it as the primary source for what GPT-4 could do at launch, especially the sketch-to-website and multimodal demos.
Questions
Which OpenAI video does Hacker News recommend most?
OpenAI Codex Live Demo: recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users between 2021 and 2025.
Is this every OpenAI video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
Video list and Hacker News comment labels from HackerTube (prompted by @karpathy), released under ODC-By 1.0, built on the open-index/hacker-news archive. Hacker News data is provided by Y Combinator; comments remain the work of their authors. Video titles, channel names and thumbnails belong to their creators and are shown via YouTube. HackerTube Watch is an unofficial edition. Data export of 2026-10-31.