Manufacturing & industrial processes Videos Recommended on Hacker News (53)
Manufacturing & industrial processes is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 53 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2012 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
8 mo on HNShenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED
9 mo on HNOrigins of Precision
6 mo on HNThe Art of Making a Nixie Tube
6 mo on HNI Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308
5 mo on HNHOW ROCKETS ARE MADE (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - Smarter Every Day 231
5 mo on HNThe Boeing 787: Broken Dreams l Al Jazeera Investigations
4 mo on HNTearing Down the Model T of Our Time - Autoline After Hours 284
3 mo on HNThe $200M Machine that Prints Microchips: The EUV Photolithography System
3 mo on HNTesla Battery Day
4 mo on HNInside a Huge PCB Factory
3 mo on HNThe Death of Affordable Computing | Tariffs Impact & Investigation
3 mo on HNThe Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology
3 mo on HNThe 1751 Machine that Made Everything
3 mo on HNAmerica's Iron Giants - The World's Most Powerful Metalworkers
3 mo on HNHow Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271
3 mo on HNHow the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
3 mo on HNElon Musk Interview: 1-on-1 with Sandy Munro
3 mo on HNAn Intro to KiCad – Part 1: How PCBs Are Made | DigiKey
2 mo on HNThe People's Republic of The Future
2 mo on HNThis Swiss Builder uses NO INSULATION...
2 mo on HNThomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch
2 mo on HNThe Mind-Blowing Machines that Stamp Millions of Metal Parts - Smarter Every Day 288
2 mo on HNBehind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory
2 mo on HNGiga Castings with Sandy | Evolution of Tesla Bodies In White
2 mo on HNWhere The Real Chip Shortage Is
2 mo on HNWhy There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID)
2 mo on HNShenzhen: A New Breed of Intellectual Property (Part 3) | Future Cities | WIRED
2 mo on HNThe Material Science of Metal 3D Printing
2 mo on HNUpdated BP Texas City Animation on the 15th Anniversary of the Explosion
2 mo on HNHow I Made My Own iPhone - in China
2 mo on HNBMW i3 Factory Production Tour
2 mo on HNHow many robots does it take to run a grocery store?
1 mo on HNHow Sikh Chefs Feed 100,000 People At The Gurudwara Bangla Sahib Temple In New Delhi, India
1 mo on HNMaster Hands - Chevrolet Manufacturing (1936)
1 mo on HN21st Century Jet - Building the Boeing 777 - Full Episode 1
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Mentioned in HN threads about manufacturing & industrial processes, though never formally recommended:
Automatic Hamburger Machine - 50 Years Ahead of Its Time! · How It's Made - Canola Oil · 5Axis Machine Cutting HELMET / DAISHIN SEIKI CORPORATION · Robotic Distribution · The Machine to Build the Machines - NeXT · Markus Kayser - Solar Sinter Project · Tearing Into Tesla's Model 3 · What happens at a Materials Recycling Facility? (MRF) - How does our sorting machine work? · Oxbo Raspberry & Blueberry Harvesters · Tesla Fremont Flyover Gigapress Operation Captured - Jan 21, 2021 · Inside the Lab Where Robots Run Their Own Experiments · China’s Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don't Need Lights | WSJ · Mercedes A-Class Production line · Air Force Heavy Press Program (USAF film) by D.O.D. · Tesla Factory Tour with Elon Musk! · SSI's Shred of the Month: E-Scrap - Hard Drives Shredding (Q)