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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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3 mo on HNcode::dive conference 2014 - Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care
NOKIA Technology Center Wrocław
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “C++ atomics, from basic to advanced. What do they really do?”
CppCon
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HN25c3: The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk
Christiaan008
3 HN recommender · 2011–2025
3 mo on HN8-bit CPU control logic: Part 1
Ben Eater
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HN27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)
Christiaan008
2 HN recommender · 2014–2021
3 mo on HNNew computers don't speed up old code
Matthias random stuff
3 HN recommender · 2025–2025
3 mo on HNWhy Do Mainframes Still Exist? What's Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more!
Dave's Garage
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNASPLOS Keynote: The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-design by Dr. Chris Lattner
SiFive
3 HN recommender · 2021–2021
3 mo on HNSamsung SSD Awesomeness
ssdawesome
3 HN recommender · 2009–2011
3 mo on HNJim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162
Lex Fridman
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNRAAIS 2017 - Simon Knowles, Co-Founder and CTO of Graphcore
The Research and Applied AI Summit - RAAIS
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
2 mo on HNC++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter - atomic Weapons 2 of 2
alexsmail
2 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HNA Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click
Devoxx
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNHow "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo
The 8-Bit Guy
4 HN recommender · 2015–2019
3 mo on HNThe Only Famous Motherboard
Cathode Ray Dude - CRD
3 HN recommender · 2025–2025
2 mo on HNDEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - The Ring 0 Facade Awakening the Processors Inner Demons
DEFCONConference
2 HN recommender · 2019–2026
3 mo on HNEmulating the DX7 the HARD way
plgDavid
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNStanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic
Stanford Online
5 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNIntel - Anti-Competitive, Anti-Consumer, Anti-Technology.
AdoredTV
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNThe Smartphone CPU Review You NEED to Watch!
Geekerwan
4 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HN3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell
Computer History Museum
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HNDEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation
DEFCONConference
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNLiving Computation: Robust-first programming in ULAM
Dave Ackley
2 HN recommender · 2015–2025
2 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape
Stanford Online
2 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HNTuesday @ 1130 ISA Shootout – a Comparison of RISC V, ARM, and x86 Chris Celio, UC Berkeley V2
RISC-V International
2 HN recommender · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNChuck Moore's Fireside Chat 2011
GreenArraysInc
2 HN recommender · 2013–2017
2 mo on HNScale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill, Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law
FunctionalTV
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HNHC2023-K2: Hardware for Deep Learning
hotchipsvideos
2 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNMaking logic gates from transistors
Ben Eater
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HNThe Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer - Brian Troutwine
Erlang Solutions
2 HN recommender · 2015–2019
2 mo on HNCOLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership
Gamers Nexus
2 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HNHe started a computing REVOLUTION—then the shortage hit
Jeff Geerling
2 HN recommender · 2023–2023
2 mo on HNHere's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe
SHARE Association
2 HN recommender · 2018–2025
2 mo on HNOxide and Friends 7/3/2023 -- Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered!
Oxide Computer Company
2 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNVampire 2 Review - The Fastest Amiga Ever?!
Dan Wood
2 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNIs It Really Impossible To Cool A Datacenter In Space?
Scott Manley
2 HN recommender · 2026–2026