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Home, DIY & practical skills Videos Recommended on Hacker News (61)

Home, DIY & practical skills is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 61 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2012 and 2026 — 165 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Practical life skills: home repair, plumbing, electrical wiring, tiny houses, gardening, tools, how-to guides, cleaning, bicycle repair, survival and outdoors skills.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained): “I highly recommend you watch this video by Technology connections[1], I too used to think I had to rinse my dishes before putting them in the machine.” — an HN commenter, 2022.

Home, DIY & practical skills Videos Recommended on Hacker News (61)

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Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)

Building a realistic artificial sun (for dark winter days)

I messed up. You're using too much detergent.

Your dishwasher is better than you think (tips, tricks, and how they work)

Best fan placement to move air through the house

Making Infrared Cooling Paint From Grocery Store Items (w/Novel CaCO₃ Microsphere Synthesis)

Why Air Quality Matters

Primitive Technology: Tiled Roof Hut

Build a Do-It-Yourself Air Purifier for About $40

Humidifiers: Simpler is better?

Surviving in the Siberian Wilderness for 70 Years (Full Length)

How to tie your shoes | Terry Moore

Mosquito trap DIY 8,000 mosquito kill reduce ZIKA DENGUE MALARIA MaxxAir Fan CO2

Perhaps the weakest link in the US electrical system

Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow

The US electrical system is not 120V

How To Sharpen A Knife In About 5 Minutes With ONE Stone | EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FAST! 2023

How to use one paper towel | Joe Smith | TEDxConcordiaUPortland

Turning Smashed TVs into Realistic Artificial Daylight

LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish

How We Bought Our Abandoned House in Japan | Process, Costs, Risks, Finance, How to Find One

Primitive Technology: Cord drill and Pump drill

EC's Big Announcement

New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost

Bed Bugs- What You've Been Told is Totally False

The Secret Life of Machines - Vacuum Cleaners 1/2

GSMT - Dan Holohan, Author: "The Lost Art of Steam Heating"

(405) Choosing a High Security Lock

Extreme transformer home in Hong Kong: Gary Chang's 24 rooms in 1

Earth-cooled, shipping container underground CA home for 30K

This Swiss Builder uses NO INSULATION...

Cody's Algae Panel

Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps

Oldest US mall blends old/modern with 225-sq-ft micro-lofts

Copper vs Pex vs SharkBite - Freeze Testing

Underground dome house of the family who led geese to fly home