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Ideas & learning (other) Videos Recommended on Hacker News (17)

Ideas & learning (other) is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 17 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 HN

Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn

TED
4 HN recommender · 2012–2022
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Your Post Code Is the Directions, Not the Destination

CGP Grey
4 HN recommender · 2025–2025
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The paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz | TED

TED
4 HN recommender · 2010–2022
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How to tie your shoes | Terry Moore

TED
4 HN recommender · 2015–2026
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Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
3 HN recommender · 2015–2022
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Learning from dirty jobs | Mike Rowe

TED
4 HN recommender · 2012–2018
3 mo on HN

Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED

TED
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
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Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai | TEDxDoiSuthep

TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2015–2025
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The call to learn | Clifford Stoll

TED
3 HN recommender · 2010–2025
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Make love, not porn (Adult content) | Cindy Gallop

TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2017
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How to grow fresh air | Kamal Meattle

TED
2 HN recommender · 2016–2026
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You Lose an Hour of Sleep to Save $4

CGP Grey
1 HN recommend · 2011–2019
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Where good ideas come from | Steven Johnson

TED
1 HN recommend · 2010–2020
1 mo on HN

Antifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2013–2023
1 mo on HN

The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant | TED

TED
1 HN recommend · 2018–2021
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Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement | Damien Riehl | TEDxMinneapolis

TEDx Talks
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
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Which country does the most good for the world? | Simon Anholt

TED
0 HN recommender · 2016–2020