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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 HNMassive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn
TED
4 HN recommender · 2012–2022
4 mo on HNYour Post Code Is the Directions, Not the Destination
CGP Grey
4 HN recommender · 2025–2025
4 mo on HNThe paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz | TED
TED
4 HN recommender · 2010–2022
4 mo on HNHow to tie your shoes | Terry Moore
TED
4 HN recommender · 2015–2026
3 mo on HNSocial Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
3 HN recommender · 2015–2022
4 mo on HNLearning from dirty jobs | Mike Rowe
TED
4 HN recommender · 2012–2018
3 mo on HNDo schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED
TED
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNLife is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai | TEDxDoiSuthep
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2015–2025
3 mo on HNThe call to learn | Clifford Stoll
TED
3 HN recommender · 2010–2025
2 mo on HNMake love, not porn (Adult content) | Cindy Gallop
TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2017
2 mo on HNHow to grow fresh air | Kamal Meattle
TED
2 HN recommender · 2016–2026
1 mo on HNYou Lose an Hour of Sleep to Save $4
CGP Grey
1 HN recommend · 2011–2019
1 mo on HNWhere good ideas come from | Steven Johnson
TED
1 HN recommend · 2010–2020
1 mo on HNAntifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2013–2023
1 mo on HNThe surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant | TED
TED
1 HN recommend · 2018–2021
1 mo on HNCopyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement | Damien Riehl | TEDxMinneapolis
TEDx Talks
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
0 mo on HNWhich country does the most good for the world? | Simon Anholt
TED
0 HN recommender · 2016–2020