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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.

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
8 mo on HN

A Hackers' Guide to Language Models

Jeremy Howard
8 HN recommender · 2023–2024
6 mo on HN

[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models

Andrej Karpathy
9 HN recommender · 2023–2026
4 mo on HN

Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4

Sebastien Bubeck
7 HN recommender · 2023–2026
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

The A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023

Center for Humane Technology
11 HN recommender · 2023–2024
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
4 mo on HN

Playing a Neural Network's version of GTA V: GAN Theft Auto

sentdex
3 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HN

ANIME ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS

Corridor Digital
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HN

Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton

The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2025–2025
3 mo on HN

Building pi in a World of Slop — Mario Zechner

AI Engineer
3 HN recommender · 2026–2026
3 mo on HN

State of GPT | BRK216HFS

Microsoft Developer
6 HN recommender · 2023–2025
3 mo on HN

Do we need Attention? - Linear RNNs and State Space Models (SSMs) for NLP

Sasha Rush
3 HN recommender · 2024–2024
3 mo on HN

GPT-4chan: This is the worst AI ever

Yannic Kilcher
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
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
3 mo on HN

I tried using AI. It scared me.

Tom Scott
4 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HN

Large Language Models from scratch

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

Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381

Lex Fridman
4 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HN

AI Language Models & Transformers - Computerphile

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

Nicholas Carlini - Black-hat LLMs | [un]prompted 2026

unprompted
9 HN recommender · 2026–2026
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

Generative AI for Krita - With ControlNet

Acly
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HN

OpenAI Codex Live Demo

OpenAI
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HN

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HN

Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim

Bloomberg Tech
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HN

We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech

Brandon Sanderson
3 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HN

Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer

Freya Holmér
2 HN recommender · 2025–2025
2 mo on HN

Why ChatGPT Can't Draw a Full Glass of Wine

Alex O'Connor
2 HN recommender · 2025–2025
2 mo on HN

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

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

Sassy Justice with Fred Sassy (Full Episode) | Deep Fake and Deep Fake: The Movie

Sassy Justice
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
2 mo on HN

Vibe coding complex changes in Rust

Jon Gjengset
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026