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Computer architecture & CPUs Videos Recommended on Hacker News (148)
Computer architecture & CPUs is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 148 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.
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12 mo on HN8-bit computer update
Ben Eater
14 HN recommender · 2017–2023
11 mo on HNLight Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
TNMoC
11 HN recommender · 2021–2026
11 mo on HN“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — Part 1
Ben Eater
11 HN recommender · 2019–2026
10 mo on HNFinding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams
The Qualcomm Institute
12 HN recommender · 2010–2024
10 mo on HNThe Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)
media.ccc.de
10 HN recommender · 2017–2026
11 mo on HNThe Thirty Million Line Problem
Molly Rocket
11 HN recommender · 2018–2024
9 mo on HNUSENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
USENIX
12 HN recommender · 2021–2026
8 mo on HNJim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70
Lex Fridman
8 HN recommender · 2020–2023
7 mo on HN34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
media.ccc.de
9 HN recommender · 2018–2025
8 mo on HNJim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead
UC Berkeley EECS
7 HN recommender · 2019–2025
8 mo on HN"Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power" - Chuck Moore (2013)
Strange Loop Conference
7 HN recommender · 2021–2024
7 mo on HNNaN Gates and Flip FLOPS
suckerpinch
7 HN recommender · 2020–2025
7 mo on HNRichard Feynman Computer Science Lecture - Hardware, Software and Heuristics
Muon Ray
8 HN recommender · 2013–2026
8 mo on HNBreaking the x86 Instruction Set
Black Hat
9 HN recommender · 2017–2022
8 mo on HNGuarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft
Platform Security Summit
8 HN recommender · 2019–2026
6 mo on HNSimple Code, High Performance
Molly Rocket
6 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNC++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter - atomic Weapons 1 of 2
alexsmail
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
6 mo on HNHow does a USB keyboard work?
Ben Eater
7 HN recommender · 2021–2025
6 mo on HNRobust-first computing: Demon Horde Sort (full version)
Dave Ackley
3 HN recommender · 2015–2023
6 mo on HNCGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!
The 8-Bit Guy
6 HN recommender · 2016–2024
6 mo on HNOver 200,000 Servers in One Place! Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)
der8auer EN
6 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNJava on a 1000 Cores - Tales of Hardware / Software CoDesign
Google TechTalks
5 HN recommender · 2009–2025
6 mo on HNStanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer
Stanford Online
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNAdmiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond
funbury
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNFuture Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)
Veritasium
7 HN recommender · 2022–2025
5 mo on HNGPUs to Mars: Full-Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine
insideHPC Report
5 HN recommender · 2015–2024
4 mo on HNHow does Computer Memory Work? 💻🛠
Branch Education
5 HN recommender · 2022–2023
5 mo on HNSimon Peyton Jones: Data Parallel Haskell
nuACM
5 HN recommender · 2010–2017
4 mo on HNThe Road to PS5
PlayStation
6 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNTHE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments
Gamers Nexus
4 HN recommender · 2025–2026
4 mo on HNBuilding a 6800 CPU on an FPGA with nMigen (part 1)
Robert Baruch
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNDEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - GOD MODE UNLOCKED Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2019–2026
3 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Chandler Carruth “Going Nowhere Faster”
CppCon
2 HN recommender · 2017–2026
3 mo on HNJohn Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNRobust-first computing: Beyond efficiency
Dave Ackley
3 HN recommender · 2015–2025
3 mo on HN[7] Jim Keller, Silicon Wizard 🧙♂️
TechTechPotato
3 HN recommender · 2022–2023