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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5 mo on HNRevolutionary Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun
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)
2 mo on HNGlass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass
1 mo on HNAntique 4x5 camera creates 20 micron photolithography masks: Super tiny tax form
1 mo on HNMaking YBCO superconductor
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!