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LLMs & generative AI Videos Recommended on Hacker News (108)

LLMs & generative AI is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 108 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2016 and 2026 — 225 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Large language models and generative AI: GPT, ChatGPT, transformers, attention, diffusion, image generation, prompting, AI coding assistants, deepfakes, synthetic media, AI products and demos.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5: “what bade me finally understand the transformer architecture [0] and attention [1], are 3Blue1Brown's videos.” — an HN commenter, 2024.

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10 mo on HN

Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5

3Blue1Brown
13 HN recommender · 2024–2026
8 mo on HN

Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT

Andrej Karpathy
10 HN recommender · 2025–2026
8 mo on HN

Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.

Andrej Karpathy
14 HN recommender · 2023–2025
5 mo on HN

Let's build the GPT Tokenizer

Andrej Karpathy
5 HN recommender · 2024–2025
4 mo on HN

Attention in transformers, step-by-step | Deep Learning Chapter 6

3Blue1Brown
5 HN recommender · 2024–2026
4 mo on HN

LSTM is dead. Long Live Transformers!

Seattle Applied Deep Learning
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HN

Attention Is All You Need

Yannic Kilcher
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HN

CS480/680 Lecture 19: Attention and Transformer Networks

Pascal Poupart
3 HN recommender · 2023–2023
2 mo on HN

The spelled-out intro to language modeling: building makemore

Andrej Karpathy
2 HN recommender · 2024–2024
2 mo on HN

Large Language Models from scratch

Graphics in 5 Minutes
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HN

AI Language Models & Transformers - Computerphile

Computerphile
3 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HN

Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426

Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2024–2024
2 mo on HN

AI can't cross this line and we don't know why.

Welch Labs
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
1 mo on HN

Ch(e)at GPT? - Computerphile

Computerphile
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
1 mo on HN

But how do AI images and videos actually work? | Guest video by Welch Labs

3Blue1Brown
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
0 mo on HN

An Observation on Generalization

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
0 HN recommender · 2023–2026