HackerTube
The YouTube videos that Hacker News keeps telling each other to watch.
6,454videos
39,834HN comments read
150topics in 16 areas
2007–2026years of Hacker News
These are the tech talks, lectures, documentaries and explainers that Hacker News commenters actually recommend to each other — 6,454 videos distilled from 39,834 HN comments, ranked not by views but by how many separate months the community kept vouching for them. No algorithm, no watch-time optimization: just two decades of the best tech talks on YouTube, filtered by people who watch them.
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18 mo on HNVectors | Chapter 1, Essence of linear algebra
3Blue1Brown
17 HN recommender · 2018–2026
18 mo on HNRuby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich
Confreaks
17 HN recommender · 2013–2026
18 mo on HNIndistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips
Andor Gafotas
19 HN recommender · 2016–2024
16 mo on HNHow to Speak
MIT OpenCourseWare
17 HN recommender · 2020–2025
16 mo on HNThe spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd
Andrej Karpathy
17 HN recommender · 2022–2025
17 mo on HN8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
GDC Festival of Gaming
13 HN recommender · 2018–2026
16 mo on HNHow Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask framework
Видео с мероприятий {speach!
15 HN recommender · 2017–2025
15 mo on HNAT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)
AT&T Tech Channel
12 HN recommender · 2014–2026
15 mo on HNIn Search Of A Flat Earth
Folding Ideas
17 HN recommender · 2020–2026
15 mo on HN1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
Stanford
15 HN recommender · 2012–2026
17 mo on HNHow The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio
Principles by Ray Dalio
18 HN recommender · 2014–2026
15 mo on HNRailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz
Confreaks
15 HN recommender · 2015–2025
15 mo on HNBut what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction.
3Blue1Brown
16 HN recommender · 2018–2025
15 mo on HNAround The Corner - How Differential Steering Works (1937)
US Auto Industry
17 HN recommender · 2013–2024
14 mo on HNThe Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019
GOTO Conferences
16 HN recommender · 2019–2024
13 mo on HNEssential Ideas for Parents
Jason Salotti
9 HN recommender · 2015–2025
14 mo on HN"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)
Strange Loop Conference
14 HN recommender · 2022–2026
15 mo on HNThe Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know
Google TechTalks
11 HN recommender · 2012–2025
15 mo on HNTry to Rule Fairly and You'll Be Overthrown
CGP Grey
15 HN recommender · 2016–2025
14 mo on HNLEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively
UChicago Social Sciences
15 HN recommender · 2019–2026
14 mo on HNWhat the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU
JSConf
16 HN recommender · 2015–2025
14 mo on HNBut what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1
3Blue1Brown
16 HN recommender · 2017–2025
14 mo on HNA Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt
Enthought
15 HN recommender · 2015–2026
12 mo on HNGeorge Lakoff: Moral Politics
University of California Television (UCTV)
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
15 mo on HNHeat Pumps: the Future of Home Heating
Technology Connections
17 HN recommender · 2021–2026
14 mo on HNMicro Men - 720p (2009)
gimpymoo
15 HN recommender · 2015–2026
13 mo on HNThe Beauty of Bézier Curves
Freya Holmér
16 HN recommender · 2021–2026
13 mo on HNThe Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary)
David Lessig
13 HN recommender · 2016–2026
14 mo on HNThe Tragedy of systemd
linux.conf.au
16 HN recommender · 2019–2025
13 mo on HNRich Harris - Rethinking reactivity
You Gotta Love Frontend
15 HN recommender · 2019–2026
13 mo on HN"Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman
elm-conf
9 HN recommender · 2017–2026
12 mo on HNDominion (2018) - full documentary [Official]
Farm Transparency Project
10 HN recommender · 2019–2024
13 mo on HND/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)
FL Studio
15 HN recommender · 2017–2026
12 mo on HNSM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated) [OUTDATED]
pannenkoek2012
13 HN recommender · 2016–2024
12 mo on HN8-bit computer update
Ben Eater
14 HN recommender · 2017–2023
13 mo on HNMIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy (IAP 2017) - Zach Hartwig
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
16 HN recommender · 2017–2023
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