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.
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3 mo on HNA Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click
3 mo on HNHow "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo
3 mo on HNThe Only Famous Motherboard
2 mo on HNDEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - The Ring 0 Facade Awakening the Processors Inner Demons
3 mo on HNEmulating the DX7 the HARD way
2 mo on HN3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell
2 mo on HNDEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation
2 mo on HNLiving Computation: Robust-first programming in ULAM
2 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape
2 mo on HNTuesday @ 1130 ISA Shootout – a Comparison of RISC V, ARM, and x86 Chris Celio, UC Berkeley V2
2 mo on HNChuck Moore's Fireside Chat 2011
2 mo on HNScale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill, Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law
2 mo on HNMaking logic gates from transistors
2 mo on HNThe Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer - Brian Troutwine
2 mo on HNHere's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe
2 mo on HNOral History of Gary Davidian, part 2 of 2
2 mo on HNFloating Point Numbers - Computerphile
2 mo on HNSGI Indigo2: An $86,000 Workstation from 1995
2 mo on HNTomb Raider on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is incredible | MVG
2 mo on HNHow are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps
2 mo on HNOral History of Chuck Peddle
2 mo on HNWhy build an entire computer on breadboards?
2 mo on HNRacing the Beam Explained - Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television
2 mo on HNMegaprocessor Tour 1 - (fixed audio)
1 mo on HNAn astonishing old calculator - Numberphile
1 mo on HNGOD MODE UNLOCKED - Hardware Backdoors in x86 CPUs
1 mo on HN36C3 - Uncover, Understand, Own - Regaining Control Over Your AMD CPU
1 mo on HNSeymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL)
1 mo on HNJim Keller - Moore's Law in the age of AI Chips
1 mo on HNThe Universe is Hostile to Computers
1 mo on HNSGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 - Silicon Graphics Onyx RealityEngine²
1 mo on HNThe Mill CPU Architecture – The Compiler (10 of 13)
1 mo on HN“Too Much Thermal Paste” – Benchmark of Thermal Paste Quantity
1 mo on HNLest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
1 mo on HNThe Great Debate @ARITH23: John Gustafson and William Kahan
1 mo on HNOral History of William David "Bill" Mensch Jr.
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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