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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.
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1 mo on HNThe mathematics of love | Hannah Fry
TED
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
1 mo on HNThe Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure
Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HNDarts in Higher Dimensions (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile
Numberphile
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNThe Unbeatable Game from the 60s: Dr NIM
Stand-up Maths
1 HN recommend · 2016–2023
1 mo on HNCrowd Wisdom Principles
Hypermind
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HNThe Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNrand() Considered Harmful
aghuttun
1 HN recommend · 2019–2025
1 mo on HNAntifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2013–2023
1 mo on HNBBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd
timb6
1 HN recommend · 2013–2016
1 mo on HNBertrand's Paradox (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile
Numberphile
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
1 mo on HNWhy was Biden's win calculated to be ONE IN A QUADRILLION?
Stand-up Maths
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
0 mo on HNWill We Ever Run Out of New Music?
Vsauce
0 HN recommender · 2015–2020
0 mo on HNWhy Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
Veritasium
0 HN recommender · 2024–2026
0 mo on HNThe Princess Bride (5/12) Movie CLIP - The Battle of Wits (1987) HD
Movieclips
0 HN recommender · 2022–2025
0 mo on HNFlipping 10 heads in a row: Full video
singingbanana
0 HN recommender · 2015–2022
0 mo on HNWhy We Should NOT Look For Aliens - The Dark Forest
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
0 HN recommender · 2021–2026