Hacker culture & free software Videos Recommended on Hacker News (58)
Hacker culture & free software is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 58 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 148 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Hacker culture: free software movement, Richard Stallman, open source history, hacker ethic, MIT AI Lab, cypherpunks, hackathons, Aaron Swartz, internet freedom.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips: “This talk on YouTube is the most in depth explanation of IC manufacuring I have seen. I highly recommend it to anyone, no matter their background.” — an HN commenter, 2018.
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1 mo on HNTalk - Eben Moglen - Free and Open Software: Paradigm for a New Intellectual Commons
1 mo on HNEben Moglen: How I discovered Free Software and met RMS
1 mo on HNH2K2 (2002): "The Conscience of a Hacker"
1 mo on HNThe Light It Up Contest -- geohot
1 mo on HN[FOSSi Dial-Up] Tim Ansell - Skywater PDK: Fully open source manufacturable PDK for a 130nm process
1 mo on HNHACKERS | Just the Hacking Scenes | MGM Studios
1 mo on HNTrusted Computing? Yes or No
1 mo on HNPdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves
1 mo on HNNixOS Drama Explained, a Personal Account
1 mo on HNJellyvision Q&A with DHH & Jason Fried
0 mo on HNSmackBook
0 mo on HNRichard Stallman Free software Song
0 mo on HNMonzy performs at Stanford Univ.
0 mo on HNRichard Stallman Eats Something From His Foot
0 mo on HNCivilization starter kit | Marcin Jakubowski | TEDxKC
0 mo on HNHackers Testifying at the United States Senate, May 19, 1998 (L0pht Heavy Industries)
0 mo on HNDecentralized Web Summit - Live From The Internet Archive
0 mo on HNRichard Stallman: Copyright vs. Community
0 mo on HNPenn and Teller's Lab Scam
0 mo on HNOSCON 2011: Karen Sandler
0 mo on HNThe smartest programmer who has ever lived
0 mo on HN