Mechanical & precision engineering Videos Recommended on Hacker News (141)
Mechanical & precision engineering is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 141 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 375 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Mechanical engineering: machines, mechanisms, gears, precision design, flexures, hydraulics, thermodynamic machines, engineering failures, clever mechanical designs, how it works explainers.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Around The Corner - How Differential Steering Works (1937): “this video explaining differentials is from 1937 and is a marvel of pedagogy” — an HN commenter, 2019.
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15 mo on HNAround The Corner - How Differential Steering Works (1937)
12 mo on HNDetergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)
12 mo on HNMechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers
11 mo on HNThe Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours
11 mo on HNU.S. NAVY BASIC MECHANISMS OF FIRE CONTROL COMPUTERS MECHANICAL COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONAL FILM 27794
9 mo on HNThe Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can
9 mo on HNOrigins of Precision
7 mo on HNElevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse
6 mo on HN(1/4) Intro/History: Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer
6 mo on HNThe Hyperloop: BUSTED!
6 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Deviant Ollam & Howard Payne - Elevator Hacking - From the Pit to the Penthouse
5 mo on HN[HOPE X] Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse
5 mo on HNHow Differential Gear works (BEST Tutorial)
5 mo on HNBuilding The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1
6 mo on HNOld-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever
6 mo on HNOld pinball machines are amazingly complex
5 mo on HNThe Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of
5 mo on HNSpinning Levers - How A Transmission Works (1936)
4 mo on HNControl Bootcamp: Overview
5 mo on HNDrip Coffee Makers — super simple, super cheap
5 mo on HNIBM Selectric Typewriter & its digital to analogue converter
4 mo on HNIs SpaceX's Raptor engine the king of rocket engines?
5 mo on HNBOLTR: DYSON HAIR DRYER. Is it WORTH the MONEY?
4 mo on HNMost People Don't Know How Bikes Work
4 mo on HNBuilding Prototypes Dan Gelbart part 1 of 18 Introduction
3 mo on HNGiant Robot Project, Part 1
4 mo on HN"Turbo Encabulator" the Original
3 mo on HNClockmaking - How To Make A Clock In The Home Machine Shop - Part 1 - Making The Clock Frames
3 mo on HN[1299] Unpickable Locks From Stuff Made Here
4 mo on HNThe Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
4 mo on HNConstruction of the 10000 year clock - Alexander Rose (SETI Talks)
3 mo on HNKSP Doesn't Teach: Rocket Engine Plumbing
3 mo on HNHow to achieve nanometer precision in space?
3 mo on HNWhy Machines That Bend Are Better
3 mo on HNThe Secret Life of the Vacuum Cleaner - Remastered
3 mo on HN