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Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)

Rick AstleyCited 20× on HN, 2013–2023
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music · general · evergreen · 2013–2023 on HN

The official music video for Rick Astley's 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up, the song behind the Rickroll internet prank.

HN mostly uses it as a Rickroll joke or as a stand-in test URL for tools handling YouTube links.

12 comments from Hacker News

@mtmail2023-12 · in “Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblock detection?”

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

@gpm2022-09 · in “Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac”

"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.

@chrismorgan2022-09 · in “YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in WebKit”

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.

@ianhawes2021-09 · in “NASA Is Launching a New Telescope That Could Offer Some Cosmic Eye Candy”

Sadly this is outdated.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

@TomGullen2021-07 · in “Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley reaches one billion views [video]”

There's actually an 8k version out as well although the interpolation is a bit funky in some places: ▶ this video