Show HN: FastUbu – An Ultrafast Video Archive

A new project called Fast Ubu has swooped in with a simple promise: make the famously massive UbuWeb film archive feel fast, searchable, and easy to fall into. That means more than 3,200 avant-garde films and videos, free to stream, now wrapped in a smoother interface. It’s not officially part of UbuWeb, but an independent mirror built to help people actually browse this mountain of weird, wonderful moving-image history without feeling like they’re digging through a dusty basement.

And in the comments? The mood is less “serious critique” and more delighted surrender. The standout reaction came from Renaud, who basically summed up the entire vibe: this thing is a rabbit hole and people are already bracing to lose hours inside it. That’s the hot take, the warning label, and the sales pitch all at once. No giant flame war erupted here, but there is a tiny spark of drama in the subtext: when a site gets this snappy, the real danger isn’t confusion — it’s obliterating your free time. Even the project’s artsy side added to the fun, with oddball references to Père Ubu, a baby armadillo image, and the whole gloriously strange Ubu universe giving the launch a chaotic art-school energy. In other words, the community verdict is in: this is cool, this is slick, and yes, your evening is probably gone.