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.
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2 mo on HNPrimitive Technology: Forge Blower
2 mo on HNNew vs Old Room Fire Final UL
2 mo on HNHow to Make a DIY Air Filter | Ask This Old House
2 mo on HNHow to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's
2 mo on HNTable Saw Safety: My Accident and How to Avoid Your Own
2 mo on HNWhat is a rocket mass heater?
2 mo on HNThe Car-Replacement Bicycle (the bakfiets)
2 mo on HNAwnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about
1 mo on HNPrimitive Technology: Stone Axe (celt)
1 mo on HNA simple water heater is more clever than it seems
1 mo on HNFire test: wooden house vs. ordinary house
1 mo on HNPassive House - Fresh Air System Install & Costs (Zehnder)
1 mo on HNHow to Make a $1500 Sandwich in Only 6 Months
1 mo on HNLego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces
0 mo on HNSepp Holzer's Mountain Permaculture Farm
0 mo on HN[787] LiteLok Gold Cut in 16 Seconds!
0 mo on HNThis is Why Heat Pumps May NOT Be The Future
0 mo on HNHow Primitive Building Videos Are Staged
0 mo on HNHow to Heat a Swimming Pool with an Air Conditioner | Ask This Old House
0 mo on HNUrban Agroecoloy: 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre - Urban Homestead - Urban Permaculture
0 mo on HN[844] No Picking Required: Amazon’s Defective Choice
0 mo on HNYour Home Can Survive a Wildfire
0 mo on HNLED Christmas lights still annoy me. Let's try some more fixes.
0 mo on HNBreaking into a Suitcase with a Ballpoint Pen and What You Can Do About It
0 mo on HN