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Magic, puzzles & curiosities Videos Recommended on Hacker News (34)

Magic, puzzles & curiosities is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 34 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 71 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Curiosities: magic tricks, illusions, street performance, optical illusions, strange talents, Rube Goldberg machines, record attempts, oddities, mind-bending demos.

Magic, puzzles & curiosities Videos Recommended on Hacker News (34)

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The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles UNDER his house - Numberphile

Dani DaOrtiz at Fool US 2022 (the act that Penn and Teller didn’t even try to figure out.)

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine - Official Video

Lars Andersen: A new level of archery

[1299] Unpickable Locks From Stuff Made Here

Virtual Barber Shop (Audio...use headphones, close ur eyes)

Derren Brown - The System (Full)

Math Encounters -- Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling -- Colin Wright (Presentation)

Kostya Kimlat Fools Penn & Teller // Fool Us: Penn's Favorite Card Trick

selective attention test

Ricky Jay - Amazing Card Trick/Manipulation

Speaking Piano - Now with (somewhat decent) captions!

Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Payback

Geographical limit between Balkan and Central Europe

Quick-sort with Hungarian (Küküllőmenti legényes) folk dance

Machine with Concrete - Arthur Ganson

Try this bizarre audio illusion! 👁️👂😮 - BBC

Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)

OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video

Math Magic

Best Lenny call ever! "I got to hang up. I cain't do this no longer. No, sir." (14:04)

McGurk effect - Auditory Illusion - BBC Horizon Clip

AMAZING VIDEO! Man Lifts 20 Ton Block By Hand?

strandbeest evolution

Honda - The Cog

Derren Brown vs 9 Chess Players

Egg Drop From Space

Shepard Tone

Gary Connery's Wingsuit Landing without using a Parachute

World Freehand Circle Drawing Champion

Penn and Teller's Lab Scam

Flying Lawnmower

Smarter Every Day Challenge: Learn the Backwards Brain Bike

One of a kind Wax Cylinder breaks on camera