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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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 HNJet Fuel VS Diesel VS Gasoline how they burn and what color are they.
2 mo on HNSolar Powered Air Conditioner!
2 mo on HNDemo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
1 mo on HNMaking uranium glass
1 mo on HNWhat salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more
1 mo on HNMaking purple gold
1 mo on HN[593] Gallium vs. Titalium - Abus Padlock Meets a Gruesome End
1 mo on HNSynthesizing Chicken Noodle Soup From Pure Chemicals
1 mo on HNExperiment: Coca Cola and Drain Cleaner
1 mo on HNAttempting to make transparent wood
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!