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Probability & game theory Videos Recommended on Hacker News (47)

Probability & game theory is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 47 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
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2026
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The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure

Tom Scott
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2024
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Darts in Higher Dimensions (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile

Numberphile
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

The Unbeatable Game from the 60s: Dr NIM

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

Crowd Wisdom Principles

Hypermind
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN

The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything

Veritasium
Recommended 1× on HN · 2025–2025
1 mo on HN

rand() Considered Harmful

aghuttun
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2025
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Antifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2023
1 mo on HN

BBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd

timb6
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2016
1 mo on HN

Bertrand's Paradox (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile

Numberphile
Recommended 1× on HN · 2022–2024
1 mo on HN

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

Stand-up Maths
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024

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Mentioned in HN threads about probability & game theory, though never formally recommended:

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