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Quantum computing Videos Recommended on Hacker News (11)
Quantum computing is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 11 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2013 and 2025 — 33 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
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Why HN keeps sending people here — on Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists: “This video is the simplest explanation that I have found for Quantum Computing” — an HN commenter, 2024.
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13 mo on HNQuantum Computing for Computer Scientists
Microsoft Research
12 HN recommender · 2018–2025
4 mo on HNThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers | Infinite Series
PBS Infinite Series
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNHow Quantum Computers Break Encryption | Shor's Algorithm Explained
minutephysics
3 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HNHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm | Infinite Series
PBS Infinite Series
3 HN recommender · 2018–2019
2 mo on HNQuantum Expert Insight: Peter Shor
Qiskit
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HNQuantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
WIRED
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021