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Manufacturing & industrial processes Videos Recommended on Hacker News (69)
Manufacturing & industrial processes is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 69 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 142 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Manufacturing: factories, how things are made, injection molding, casting, machining, supply chain, assembly lines, industrial automation, lean production, mass production tours.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can: “Whenever it’s about cans I can only recommend this video from the engineer guy” — an HN commenter, 2025.
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9 mo on HNThe Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can
engineerguy
9 HN recommender · 2016–2026
8 mo on HNShenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED
WIRED Investigations
8 HN recommender · 2016–2022
9 mo on HNOrigins of Precision
Machine Thinking
11 HN recommender · 2019–2025
6 mo on HNThe Art of Making a Nixie Tube
Dalibor Farný
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
6 mo on HNI Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308
SmarterEveryDay
6 HN recommender · 2025–2026
5 mo on HNHOW ROCKETS ARE MADE (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - Smarter Every Day 231
SmarterEveryDay
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNThe Boeing 787: Broken Dreams l Al Jazeera Investigations
Al Jazeera English
6 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HNTearing Down the Model T of Our Time - Autoline After Hours 284
Autoline Network
6 HN recommender · 2015–2018
3 mo on HNThe $200M Machine that Prints Microchips: The EUV Photolithography System
Branch Education
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNTesla Battery Day
Tesla
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
4 mo on HNInside a Huge PCB Factory
Strange Parts
4 HN recommender · 2018–2026
3 mo on HNThe Death of Affordable Computing | Tariffs Impact & Investigation
Gamers Nexus
3 HN recommender · 2025–2025
3 mo on HNThe Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology
Veritasium
5 HN recommender · 2026–2026
3 mo on HNThe 1751 Machine that Made Everything
Machine Thinking
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNAmerica's Iron Giants - The World's Most Powerful Metalworkers
Machine Thinking
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HNHow Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271
SmarterEveryDay
3 HN recommender · 2022–2022
3 mo on HNHow the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
Tom Scott
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNElon Musk Interview: 1-on-1 with Sandy Munro
Munro Live
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNAn Intro to KiCad – Part 1: How PCBs Are Made | DigiKey
DigiKey
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNThe People's Republic of The Future
Bloomberg Originals
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNThis Swiss Builder uses NO INSULATION...
Matt Risinger
2 HN recommender · 2019–2020
2 mo on HNThomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch
TED
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HNThe Mind-Blowing Machines that Stamp Millions of Metal Parts - Smarter Every Day 288
SmarterEveryDay
2 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNBehind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory
ILFORD Photo
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNGiga Castings with Sandy | Evolution of Tesla Bodies In White
Munro Live
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNWhere The Real Chip Shortage Is
Asianometry
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HNWhy There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID)
Wendover Productions
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNShenzhen: A New Breed of Intellectual Property (Part 3) | Future Cities | WIRED
Uncanny Valley by WIRED
2 HN recommender · 2016–2021
2 mo on HNThe Material Science of Metal 3D Printing
Real Engineering
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
2 mo on HNUpdated BP Texas City Animation on the 15th Anniversary of the Explosion
USCSB
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNHow I Made My Own iPhone - in China
Strange Parts
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HNBMW i3 Factory Production Tour
europeanautosource
2 HN recommender · 2016–2017
2 mo on HNHow many robots does it take to run a grocery store?
Tom Scott
2 HN recommender · 2021–2026
1 mo on HNHow Sikh Chefs Feed 100,000 People At The Gurudwara Bangla Sahib Temple In New Delhi, India
Insider Food
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNMaster Hands - Chevrolet Manufacturing (1936)
US Auto Industry
1 HN recommend · 2015–2019
1 mo on HN21st Century Jet - Building the Boeing 777 - Full Episode 1
shareoldvideos
1 HN recommend · 2014–2021