Materials science Videos Recommended on Hacker News (42)
Materials science is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 42 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 94 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Materials: metals, alloys, ceramics, composites, transparent wood, semiconductors materials, superconductors, nanotechnology, crystals, fabrication of new materials, strength of materials.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams: “I encourage folks to watch this tech talk by HP Research Labs on the discovery of the memristor and implementation details.” — an HN commenter, 2014.
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10 mo on HNFinding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams
7 mo on HNWhy It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
5 mo on HNRevolutionary Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun
3 mo on HNThe Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
4 mo on HNMaking Infrared Cooling Paint From Grocery Store Items (w/Novel CaCO₃ Microsphere Synthesis)
4 mo on HNHow To Make Infrared Cooling Paint (Electricity Free Air Conditioning)
4 mo on HNSmelting Iron in Africa (A DEMONSTRATION)
4 mo on HNMystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps - Smarter Every Day 86
3 mo on HNNokia Morph Concept (long)
3 mo on HNThe Liquid Metal Battery: Innovation in stationary electricity storage
3 mo on HNEtching small patterns in Glass
3 mo on HNWas Roman Concrete Better?
2 mo on HNThe Ridiculous Engineering Of Jet Engines
2 mo on HNWhat is Concrete?
2 mo on HNGlass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass
2 mo on HNA Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning. (2011)
2 mo on HNMOLTEN GLASS VS Prince Rupert's Drop - Smarter Every Day 285
2 mo on HNFor the undying 9/11 MORONIC JET FUEL ARGUMENT
2 mo on HNDemo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
2 mo on HNThe Material Science of Metal 3D Printing
1 mo on HNMaking uranium glass
1 mo on HNDIY Scanning Electron Microscope - Overview
1 mo on HNThe Snowflake Myth
1 mo on HNI Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast
1 mo on HNRichard Feynman "Tiny Machines" Nanotechnology Lecture - aka "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
1 mo on HN.38 Special vs Prince Ruperts Drop at 170,000 FPS - Smarter Every Day 169
1 mo on HNSpace Shuttle Thermal Tile Demonstration
1 mo on HNYour toothbrush is worn-out!
1 mo on HNMaking purple gold
1 mo on HN[593] Gallium vs. Titalium - Abus Padlock Meets a Gruesome End
1 mo on HNA Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
1 mo on HNMaking YBCO superconductor
1 mo on HNAttempting to make transparent wood
1 mo on HNHow the pyramids were built in Egypt
0 mo on HNThe Glass Age, Part 1: Flexible, Bendable Glass
0 mo on HN