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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 HN

Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming

Google TechTalks
8 HN recommender · 2015–2024
8 mo on HN

Richard Feynman Fire

nebulajr
8 HN recommender · 2010–2023
8 mo on HN

I messed up. You're using too much detergent.

Technology Connections
10 HN recommender · 2021–2025
6 mo on HN

The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History

Veritasium
6 HN recommender · 2022–2026
4 mo on HN

Introduction: The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday (1/6)

engineerguy
4 HN recommender · 2018–2022
5 mo on HN

Revolutionary Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun

Tech Ingredients
5 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HN

How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen?- Smarter Every Day 251

SmarterEveryDay
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HN

Making Infrared Cooling Paint From Grocery Store Items (w/Novel CaCO₃ Microsphere Synthesis)

NightHawkInLight
5 HN recommender · 2023–2026
4 mo on HN

How To Make Infrared Cooling Paint (Electricity Free Air Conditioning)

NightHawkInLight
4 HN recommender · 2022–2025
3 mo on HN

Why Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them)

Adam Ragusea
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HN

The Biggest Chemical Coverup In History

Veritasium
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HN

Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269

Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2022–2022
2 mo on HN

Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules

Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HN

America's Nerve Gas Arsenal

Peter Klusman
2 HN recommender · 2017–2020
3 mo on HN

How Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271

SmarterEveryDay
3 HN recommender · 2022–2022
3 mo on HN

Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules

Steve Mould
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HN

The 5 Most Dangerous Chemicals on Earth

SciShow
3 HN recommender · 2015–2020
3 mo on HN

Etching small patterns in Glass

Huygens Optics
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HN

DIY mass spectrometer measures potassium in dietary salt substitute

Applied Science
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

Fluorine - Periodic Table of Videos

Periodic Videos
4 HN recommender · 2015–2021
2 mo on HN

Toxic Propellant Hazards In Rocketry 1966 NASA

markdcatlin
2 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HN

Glass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass

Applied Science
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
2 mo on HN

Jet Fuel VS Diesel VS Gasoline how they burn and what color are they.

Just Think
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HN

Solar Powered Air Conditioner!

Tech Ingredients
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HN

Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
2 HN recommender · 2015–2023
2 mo on HN

Behind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory

ILFORD Photo
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HN

Demo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)

Applied Science
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN

High speed camera reveals why sodium explodes!

Thunderf00t
2 HN recommender · 2015–2024
2 mo on HN

Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even @johnnyharris)

Reactions
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HN

The Molecular Shape of You (Ed Sheeran Parody) | A Capella Science

acapellascience
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
2 mo on HN

Updated BP Texas City Animation on the 15th Anniversary of the Explosion

USCSB
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
1 mo on HN

A 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 HN

Making uranium glass

NileRed
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?

PBS Space Time
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN

Inferno: Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar

USCSB
1 HN recommend · 2018–2026
1 mo on HN

What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more

Explosions&Fire
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024