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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.

Chemistry Videos Recommended on Hacker News (56)

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My Video Got 2 Companies Shut Down! (And even worse negative ion products)

What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?

CANDO: A Compiled Programming Language for Computer-Aided Nanomaterial Design and Optimization

Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds

Inferno: Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar

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

Antique 4x5 camera creates 20 micron photolithography masks: Super tiny tax form

Making purple gold

[593] Gallium vs. Titalium - Abus Padlock Meets a Gruesome End

Daniel Radcliffe sings "The Elements" - The Graham Norton Show - Series 8 Episode 4 - BBC

Making YBCO superconductor

Synthesizing Chicken Noodle Soup From Pure Chemicals

Experiment: Coca Cola and Drain Cleaner

Attempting to make transparent wood

Negative Ion/Anti-5g Products Are Actually RADIOACTIVE

Drinking Heavy Water

Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola (It Took Me A Year)

VINYL: Maybe it's time we had an intervention.

Precious Metal Refining & Recovery, Episode 10: Platinum From the Road

Which Penetrating Oil is Best? Let's find out!