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Everyday physics & science demos Videos Recommended on Hacker News (166)

Everyday physics & science demos is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 166 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 341 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

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Everyday physics & science demos Videos Recommended on Hacker News (166)

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AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)

Heat Pumps: the Future of Home Heating

Richard Feynman Fire

Building a realistic artificial sun (for dark winter days)

Brown; color is weird

The Biggest Misconception About Electricity

Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second

Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever

Fourier Optics used for Optical Pattern Recognition

How Trees Bend the Laws of Physics

But why would light "slow down"? | Visualizing Feynman's lecture on the refractive index

Traffic Waves

Why You Should Put YOUR MASK On First (My Brain Without Oxygen) - Smarter Every Day 157

Richard Feynman talks about light

Introduction: The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday (1/6)

How an Atomic Clock Really Works: Inside the HP 5061A Cesium Clock

How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen?- Smarter Every Day 251

Best fan placement to move air through the house

Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work

Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)

Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons

Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps - Smarter Every Day 86

The Moon's Orbit is WEIRD

OK Go - Upside Down & Inside Out

The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133

Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?

Single particle creates interference after double slit - Wave particle duality at the workshop

The Future of War, and How It Affects YOU (Multi-Domain Operations) - Smarter Every Day 211

Where Do Trees Get Their Mass?

Why Machines That Bend Are Better

The Incredible Sounds of the Falcon Heavy Launch (BINAURAL AUDIO IMMERSION) - Smarter Every Day 189

Doug McLean | Common Misconceptions in Aerodynamics

Neutron movie of coffee making

Why Do Reversing Trucks Not Beep Any More?

Feynman: Mirrors FUN TO IMAGINE 6

Why It's Impossible to Tune a Piano