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Networking & internet infrastructure Videos Recommended on Hacker News (78)
Networking & internet infrastructure is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 78 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2011 and 2026 — 158 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Networking and the internet: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, BGP, CDNs, protocols, WiFi, routing, undersea cables, internet architecture, web servers, nginx, how the internet works.
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9 mo on HNHarder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need
suckerpinch
12 HN recommender · 2022–2025
9 mo on HNThis Video Is Sponsored By ███ VPN
Tom Scott
9 HN recommender · 2019–2026
6 mo on HNA New Way to look at Networking
Google
6 HN recommender · 2011–2018
6 mo on HNNet Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
7 HN recommender · 2014–2017
4 mo on HNCharacters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile
Computerphile
4 HN recommender · 2014–2025
5 mo on HN8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2
GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HNA New Way to look at Networking
GoogleTalksArchive
4 HN recommender · 2012–2025
4 mo on HNWhy SpaceX is Making Starlink
Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2019–2020
3 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets
Amazon Web Services
3 HN recommender · 2017–2020
3 mo on HNEmail Hates the Living
m
3 HN recommender · 2015–2022
3 mo on HNRicardo Signes - 闇のEメール伝説
yapcasia
3 HN recommender · 2011–2021
3 mo on HNDefeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)
TheSecurityTube
3 HN recommender · 2014–2018
3 mo on HNStarlink revisions, Nov 2018
Mark Handley
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNA New Way to look at Networking
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2012–2024
3 mo on HNHigh Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle Drake
PDX Node
3 HN recommender · 2017–2020
3 mo on HNDefcon 21 - The Secret Life of SIM Cards
HackersOnBoard
3 HN recommender · 2014–2026
3 mo on HNDefcon 20 - Dan Tentler - Drinking from the caffeine firehose we know as shodan
vissago
3 HN recommender · 2014–2019
3 mo on HNSusan Crawford on Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
3 HN recommender · 2013–2014
3 mo on HNJared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)
NLNOG
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNLow Latency Routing in Space
HotNets Anonymous
4 HN recommender · 2018–2021
3 mo on HNThe Secrets Of Cornwall - Part 1 - Communications
Mark Thomas
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNUsing ground relays with Starlink
Mark Handley
5 HN recommender · 2020–2020
2 mo on HNNetdev 0x16 - Keynote: It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter
netdevconf
2 HN recommender · 2023–2023
2 mo on HNDEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation
DEFCONConference
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNHere's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS
Troy Hunt
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNBBS The.Documentary Part 4 - Fidonet
bbsers
2 HN recommender · 2014–2019
2 mo on HNTutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking
NANOG
2 HN recommender · 2017–2018
2 mo on HNDEBUNKING STARLINK
Common Sense Skeptic
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNFreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix serving at 800Gb/s - Drew Gallatin - EuroBSDcon 2022
EuroBSDCon
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNCory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
2 HN recommender · 2016–2024
2 mo on HNIPFS Alpha Demo
Juan Benet
2 HN recommender · 2015–2017
2 mo on HNNet Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
2 HN recommender · 2017–2017
2 mo on HNSpaceX Seattle 2015
Cliff O
2 HN recommender · 2015–2024
2 mo on HNThe benefits of deploying IPv6 only
NANOG
3 HN recommender · 2015–2016
2 mo on HNAll you need to know to understand 5G
Sabine Hossenfelder
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)
Amazon Web Services
2 HN recommender · 2014–2020