Civil engineering & construction Videos Recommended on Hacker News (70)
Civil engineering & construction is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 70 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2011 and 2026 — 148 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Civil engineering: bridges, dams, skyscrapers, tunnels, building construction, infrastructure failures, structural engineering, architecture engineering, Practical Engineering, megaprojects.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]: “This video from the Not Just Bikes channel shows the stark difference between a street and a road” — an HN commenter, 2021.
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2 mo on HNInfrastructure: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
2 mo on HNAre NEW Chinese buildings really FALLING DOWN?
2 mo on HNWhy North America Can't Build Nice Apartments (because of one rule)
2 mo on HNBlower Door Test
2 mo on HNWhat Really Happened at the Millennium Tower?
2 mo on HNWhy Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?
2 mo on HNWell There's Your Problem | Episode 46 : Five-over-Ones
1 mo on HNAmazing: The Rebuilding the MacArthur Maze (Documentary)
1 mo on HNCommie Blocks Are Pretty Good, Actually
1 mo on HN8LU - Are we *really* engineers? by Hillel Wayne
1 mo on HNFire test: wooden house vs. ordinary house
1 mo on HNBBC How They Dug the Victoria Line
1 mo on HN30-story building built in 15 days! Construction time lapse of J57, Changsha, China.
1 mo on HN日本の家作り(据え付け作業)Japan builds house in 1 day
1 mo on HNIf these pumps ever stop, part of Germany floods.
1 mo on HNPassive House - Fresh Air System Install & Costs (Zehnder)
1 mo on HNThe Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse
1 mo on HNWhat Really Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?
1 mo on HNHow Much Is a Human Worth? (according to engineers)
1 mo on HNHow the pyramids were built in Egypt
1 mo on HNWhy Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints
0 mo on HNThe wings on this Airbus flex way more than they should
0 mo on HNDutch junction design - safer for cyclists
0 mo on HNBlasting down bad track Doubleheader on the ND&W Railway (Maumee and Western)
0 mo on HNThe HYPERLOOP Will Never Work, Here's Why
0 mo on HNTotal Destruction Redux: F4 Phantom vs. Concrete Wall - Additional Camera Angles
0 mo on HNTacoma Bridge Collapse: The Wobbliest Bridge in the World? (1940) | British Pathé
0 mo on HNScientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk | National Geographic
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs Presents to the Cupertino City Council (6/7/11)
0 mo on HNThe Energy Vault is a Dumb Idea, Here's Why
0 mo on HNAn elevator that actually goes sideways
0 mo on HNMargin Call (5/9) Movie CLIP - A Bridge (2011) HD
0 mo on HN3D-Printed Home Can Be Constructed For Under $4,000
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