Ideas & learning (other) Videos Recommended on Hacker News (16)
Ideas & learning (other) is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 16 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 41 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Other ideas and education topics: TED talks on varied subjects, general interest lectures, interdisciplinary talks, wisdom-of-crowds style curiosities.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn: “I highly recommend watching the TED talk by Luis von Ahn, creater of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA.” — an HN commenter, 2014.
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4 mo on HNMassive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn
4 mo on HNYour Post Code Is the Directions, Not the Destination
4 mo on HNThe paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz | TED
4 mo on HNHow to tie your shoes | Terry Moore
3 mo on HNSocial Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google
4 mo on HNLearning from dirty jobs | Mike Rowe
3 mo on HNDo schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED
3 mo on HNLife is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai | TEDxDoiSuthep
3 mo on HNThe call to learn | Clifford Stoll
2 mo on HNMake love, not porn (Adult content) | Cindy Gallop
2 mo on HNHow to grow fresh air | Kamal Meattle
1 mo on HNYou Lose an Hour of Sleep to Save $4
1 mo on HNWhere good ideas come from | Steven Johnson
1 mo on HNAntifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Talks at Google
1 mo on HNThe surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant | TED
1 mo on HNCopyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement | Damien Riehl | TEDxMinneapolis
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Mentioned in HN threads about ideas & learning (other), though never formally recommended:
Which country does the most good for the world? | Simon Anholt