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Computer architecture & CPUs Videos Recommended on Hacker News (120)

Computer architecture & CPUs is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 120 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 397 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Computer architecture: CPU design, pipelines, caches, RISC-V, ARM, x86, GPUs, memory, branch prediction, supercomputers, mainframes, benchmarks, Moore's law.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on 8-bit computer update: “I think I learned more from Ben Eater’s “Building an 8-bit breadboard computer” series [0] than my intro to computer architecture course at universit…” — an HN commenter, 2022.

Explainer×Evergreen only×
6 mo on HN

CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!

The 8-Bit Guy
Recommended 6× on HN · 2016–2024
4 mo on HN

How does Computer Memory Work? 💻🛠

Branch Education
Recommended 5× on HN · 2022–2023
3 mo on HN

New computers don't speed up old code

Matthias random stuff
Recommended 3× on HN · 2025–2025
3 mo on HN

Why Do Mainframes Still Exist? What's Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more!

Dave's Garage
Recommended 3× on HN · 2023–2024
3 mo on HN

How "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo

The 8-Bit Guy
Recommended 4× on HN · 2015–2019
3 mo on HN

Emulating the DX7 the HARD way

plgDavid
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2024
2 mo on HN

Floating Point Numbers - Computerphile

Computerphile
Recommended 2× on HN · 2015–2023
2 mo on HN

Tomb Raider on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is incredible | MVG

Modern Vintage Gamer
Recommended 2× on HN · 2022–2022
2 mo on HN

How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps

Branch Education
Recommended 2× on HN · 2024–2025
2 mo on HN

Why build an entire computer on breadboards?

Ben Eater
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2022
2 mo on HN

Racing the Beam Explained - Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television

Retro Game Mechanics Explained
Recommended 2× on HN · 2022–2025
1 mo on HN

An astonishing old calculator - Numberphile

Numberphile
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2023
1 mo on HN

The Universe is Hostile to Computers

Veritasium
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2024
1 mo on HN

“Too Much Thermal Paste” – Benchmark of Thermal Paste Quantity

Gamers Nexus
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2024

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Mentioned in HN threads about computer architecture & cpus, though never formally recommended:

George Hotz | Programming | can tinygrad whisper? | AMD Rant | Giving up on AMD | Speech to Text · How did Microsoft screw this up? - Surface Pro X (SQ2) vs M1 Macbook Air · Nvidia Said We Couldn't Game On This Crypto Mining Card... · Fixing Apple's Engineering in an Hour · Louis opens new Macbook Air, immediately loses mind. · The Talk Show: Remote From WWDC 2020 · Apple Event — November 10, 2020 · WWDC 2020 Special Event Keynote — Apple · Dell SCAMMED Me - $1500 PC Secret Shopper 2 Part 4 · Apple WWDC 2005-The Intel Switch Revealed · I have some things to say - Core i9 & X299 · The One-Decade Task: Putting std::atomic in CUDA. - Olivier Giroux - CppCon 2019 · Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist? · Dr. Chris Mack Toasts the End of Moore's Law at SPIE Advanced Lithography 2014 · Building AI Silicon · Flex 170 GPU from Intel - Subscription Free GPU Accelerated VDI on Proxmox 8.1 · Intel ME explained (intel management engine) from insider · Why you shouldn't water cool your PC · Protected KVM on Arm64: A Technical Deep Dive - Quentin Perret, Google · The Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds · Linus builds Linus’ new PC! · GTC March 2024 Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Scumbag ASUS: Overvolting CPUs & Screwing the Customer · Windows 11 on Pentium 4 · RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite · Hackers - Technobabble · What happens when the CPU cooler is removed? · I had given up on AMD… until today - Ryzen 9 3900X & Ryzen 7 3700X Review