Chemistry Videos Recommended on Hacker News (50)
Chemistry is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 50 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
8 mo on HNRichard Feynman Fire
8 mo on HNI messed up. You're using too much detergent.
6 mo on HNThe Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
4 mo on HNIntroduction: The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday (1/6)
5 mo on HNRevolutionary Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun
5 mo on HNHow Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen?- Smarter Every Day 251
4 mo on HNMaking Infrared Cooling Paint From Grocery Store Items (w/Novel CaCO₃ Microsphere Synthesis)
4 mo on HNHow To Make Infrared Cooling Paint (Electricity Free Air Conditioning)
4 mo on HNPFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
3 mo on HNWhy Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them)
3 mo on HNThe Biggest Chemical Coverup In History
3 mo on HNLee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
2 mo on HNClasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules
2 mo on HNAmerica's Nerve Gas Arsenal
3 mo on HNHow Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271
3 mo on HNHomochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules
3 mo on HNThe 5 Most Dangerous Chemicals on Earth
3 mo on HNEtching small patterns in Glass
3 mo on HNDIY mass spectrometer measures potassium in dietary salt substitute
3 mo on HNFluorine - Periodic Table of Videos
2 mo on HNJames Tour: The Mystery of the Origin of Life
2 mo on HNToxic Propellant Hazards In Rocketry 1966 NASA
2 mo on HNGlass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass
2 mo on HNJet Fuel VS Diesel VS Gasoline how they burn and what color are they.
2 mo on HNSolar Powered Air Conditioner!
2 mo on HNProfessor Jeff Dahn | WIN Seminar Series
2 mo on HNTom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967
2 mo on HNBehind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory
2 mo on HNDemo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
2 mo on HNHigh speed camera reveals why sodium explodes!
2 mo on HNEveryone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even @johnnyharris)
2 mo on HNThe Molecular Shape of You (Ed Sheeran Parody) | A Capella Science
2 mo on HNUpdated BP Texas City Animation on the 15th Anniversary of the Explosion
1 mo on HNA Scientist Spilled 2 Drops Organic Mercury On Her Hand. This Is What Happened To Her Brain.
1 mo on HNMaking uranium glass
Also discussed on Hacker News (6)
Mentioned in HN threads about chemistry, though never formally recommended:
Negative Ion/Anti-5g Products Are Actually RADIOACTIVE · Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola (It Took Me A Year) · Precious Metal Refining & Recovery, Episode 10: Platinum From the Road · VINYL: Maybe it's time we had an intervention. · Drinking Heavy Water · Which Penetrating Oil is Best? Let's find out!