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Probability & game theory Videos Recommended on Hacker News (52)

Probability & game theory is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 52 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2012 and 2026 — 138 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Probability and decision theory: combinatorics, Statistics 110, Bayes theorem, paradoxes, game theory, prisoner's dilemma, Nash equilibrium, randomness, expected value.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Why Being Delusional is a Superpower: “if you attribute just 5% of outcomes to luck, then the people who have the best outcomes are among the luckiest people” — an HN commenter, 2022.

1 mo on HN

The mathematics of love | Hannah Fry

TED
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
1 mo on HN

The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure

Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HN

Darts in Higher Dimensions (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile

Numberphile
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

The Unbeatable Game from the 60s: Dr NIM

Stand-up Maths
1 HN recommend · 2016–2023
1 mo on HN

Crowd Wisdom Principles

Hypermind
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN

The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything

Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2025–2025
1 mo on HN

rand() Considered Harmful

aghuttun
1 HN recommend · 2019–2025
1 mo on HN

Antifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2013–2023
1 mo on HN

BBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd

timb6
1 HN recommend · 2013–2016
1 mo on HN

Bertrand's Paradox (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile

Numberphile
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
1 mo on HN

Why was Biden's win calculated to be ONE IN A QUADRILLION?

Stand-up Maths
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
0 mo on HN

Will We Ever Run Out of New Music?

Vsauce
0 HN recommender · 2015–2020
0 mo on HN

Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible

Veritasium
0 HN recommender · 2024–2026
0 mo on HN

The Princess Bride (5/12) Movie CLIP - The Battle of Wits (1987) HD

Movieclips
0 HN recommender · 2022–2025
0 mo on HN

Flipping 10 heads in a row: Full video

singingbanana
0 HN recommender · 2015–2022
0 mo on HN

Why We Should NOT Look For Aliens - The Dark Forest

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
0 HN recommender · 2021–2026