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 HNI messed up. You're using too much detergent.
6 mo on HNThe Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
5 mo on HNHow Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen?- Smarter Every Day 251
3 mo on HNWhy Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them)
3 mo on HNHomochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules
3 mo on HNThe 5 Most Dangerous Chemicals on Earth
2 mo on HNHigh speed camera reveals why sodium explodes!
2 mo on HNEveryone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even @johnnyharris)
1 mo on HNA Scientist Spilled 2 Drops Organic Mercury On Her Hand. This Is What Happened To Her Brain.
1 mo on HNMy Video Got 2 Companies Shut Down! (And even worse negative ion products)
1 mo on HNWhat If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?
1 mo on HNInferno: Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar
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!