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Chemistry Videos Recommended on Hacker News (56)
Chemistry is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 56 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 134 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Chemistry: reactions, organic chemistry, explosives, periodic table, home chemistry experiments, NileRed, polymers, chemical engineering, lab techniques, chemistry history.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming: “I challenge anyone to watch this lecture from Christian Schafmeister and say they are not impressed” — an HN commenter, 2016.
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8 mo on HNClasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming
Google TechTalks
8 HN recommender · 2015–2024
8 mo on HNRichard Feynman Fire
nebulajr
8 HN recommender · 2010–2023
8 mo on HNI messed up. You're using too much detergent.
Technology Connections
10 HN recommender · 2021–2025
6 mo on HNThe Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
Veritasium
6 HN recommender · 2022–2026
4 mo on HNIntroduction: The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday (1/6)
engineerguy
4 HN recommender · 2018–2022
5 mo on HNRevolutionary Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun
Tech Ingredients
5 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HNHow Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen?- Smarter Every Day 251
SmarterEveryDay
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HNMaking Infrared Cooling Paint From Grocery Store Items (w/Novel CaCO₃ Microsphere Synthesis)
NightHawkInLight
5 HN recommender · 2023–2026
4 mo on HNHow To Make Infrared Cooling Paint (Electricity Free Air Conditioning)
NightHawkInLight
4 HN recommender · 2022–2025
4 mo on HNPFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
4 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HNWhy Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them)
Adam Ragusea
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNThe Biggest Chemical Coverup In History
Veritasium
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNLee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2022–2022
2 mo on HNClasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNAmerica's Nerve Gas Arsenal
Peter Klusman
2 HN recommender · 2017–2020
3 mo on HNHow Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271
SmarterEveryDay
3 HN recommender · 2022–2022
3 mo on HNHomochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules
Steve Mould
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNThe 5 Most Dangerous Chemicals on Earth
SciShow
3 HN recommender · 2015–2020
3 mo on HNEtching small patterns in Glass
Huygens Optics
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNDIY mass spectrometer measures potassium in dietary salt substitute
Applied Science
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNFluorine - Periodic Table of Videos
Periodic Videos
4 HN recommender · 2015–2021
2 mo on HNJames Tour: The Mystery of the Origin of Life
Discovery Science
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNToxic Propellant Hazards In Rocketry 1966 NASA
markdcatlin
2 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNGlass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass
Applied Science
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
2 mo on HNJet Fuel VS Diesel VS Gasoline how they burn and what color are they.
Just Think
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HNSolar Powered Air Conditioner!
Tech Ingredients
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HNProfessor Jeff Dahn | WIN Seminar Series
Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology
2 HN recommender · 2015–2017
2 mo on HNTom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967
The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
2 HN recommender · 2015–2023
2 mo on HNBehind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory
ILFORD Photo
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNDemo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
Applied Science
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNHigh speed camera reveals why sodium explodes!
Thunderf00t
2 HN recommender · 2015–2024
2 mo on HNEveryone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even @johnnyharris)
Reactions
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNThe Molecular Shape of You (Ed Sheeran Parody) | A Capella Science
acapellascience
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
2 mo on HNUpdated BP Texas City Animation on the 15th Anniversary of the Explosion
USCSB
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNA Scientist Spilled 2 Drops Organic Mercury On Her Hand. This Is What Happened To Her Brain.
Chubbyemu
1 HN recommend · 2018–2026
1 mo on HNMaking uranium glass
NileRed
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024