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Information theory & signal processing Videos Recommended on Hacker News (43)

Information theory & signal processing is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 43 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 129 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Information theory and signals: entropy, Claude Shannon, compression, error-correcting codes, Fourier transform, signal processing, sampling, digital audio and video theory.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction.: “this was the first thing that ever really made sense to me” — an HN commenter, 2020.

15 mo on HN

But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction.

3Blue1Brown
16 HN recommender · 2018–2025
13 mo on HN

D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)

FL Studio
15 HN recommender · 2017–2026
8 mo on HN

The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT): Most Ingenious Algorithm Ever?

Reducible
7 HN recommender · 2021–2026
6 mo on HN

(1/4) Intro/History: Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer

engineerguy
6 HN recommender · 2015–2023
5 mo on HN

David Kriesel: Traue keinem Scan, den du nicht selbst gefälscht hast

media.ccc.de
4 HN recommender · 2019–2025
6 mo on HN

The more general uncertainty principle, regarding Fourier transforms

3Blue1Brown
7 HN recommender · 2019–2025
6 mo on HN

JPEG DCT, Discrete Cosine Transform (JPEG Pt2)- Computerphile

Computerphile
6 HN recommender · 2015–2026
5 mo on HN

Fourier Optics used for Optical Pattern Recognition

Huygens Optics
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HN

Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile

Computerphile
4 HN recommender · 2014–2025
4 mo on HN

But what is a Fourier series? From heat flow to drawing with circles | DE4

3Blue1Brown
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HN

Dasher: information-efficient text entry

Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
4 mo on HN

But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction

3Blue1Brown
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

The Most Underrated Algorithm

Veritasium
5 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HN

The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name

Technology Connections
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HN

Why Snow and Confetti Ruin YouTube Video Quality

Tom Scott
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
3 mo on HN

The Loudness War

Matt Mayfield Music
3 HN recommender · 2009–2025
3 mo on HN

Lecture 1: Introduction to Information Theory

Jakob Foerster
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
3 mo on HN

Ptolemy and Homer (Simpson)

Santiago Ginnobili
3 HN recommender · 2013–2022
3 mo on HN

CppCon 2015: Timur Doumler “C++ in the Audio Industry”

CppCon
3 HN recommender · 2016–2026
2 mo on HN

Justin Bieber 800% Slower

turinpt2
2 HN recommender · 2012–2024
2 mo on HN

1.1 - Course outline

LaintalAy
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HN

Onslaught - Bad Apple 64 - C64 Demo

RetroDemoScene
2 HN recommender · 2018–2026
2 mo on HN

Floating Point Numbers - Computerphile

Computerphile
2 HN recommender · 2015–2023
2 mo on HN

David Kriesel: Lies, damned lies and scans

Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) e.V.
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HN

Solving Wordle using information theory

3Blue1Brown
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HN

Hold music used to sound better. Here's why.

Tom Scott
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
1 mo on HN

Samplerates: The Higher the Better, Right?

FabFilter
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Succinct Data Structures

Edward Kmett
1 HN recommend · 2017–2025
1 mo on HN

Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75

Lex Fridman
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN

The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video

Abe Davis's Research
1 HN recommend · 2015–2026
1 mo on HN

Progressive decoding: JPEG vs JPEG XL vs AVIF

Jon Sneyers
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
1 mo on HN

Is Starlink A Secret Radar Constellation?

Noise In Space
3 HN recommender · 2026–2026
1 mo on HN

I published music on Tidal to test MQA - MQA Review

GoldenSound
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Epicycles, complex Fourier series and Homer Simpson's orbit

Mathologer
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

Dial Up Modem Handshake Sound - Spectrogram

Bitcore
1 HN recommend · 2014–2024
1 mo on HN

I built a QR code with my bare hands to see how it works

Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025