Repair, teardowns & right to repair Videos Recommended on Hacker News (54)
Repair, teardowns & right to repair is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 54 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2012 and 2026 — 131 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Repair and teardowns: electronics repair, soldering, board-level repair, Louis Rossmann, right to repair, product teardowns, how things are made, planned obsolescence, Apple hardware failures.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on BOLTR: Juicero, Cold Press Juicer for Rich Weirdos: “A beautiful technical / engineering take on why Juicero failed” — an HN commenter, 2017.
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6 mo on HNBOLTR: Juicero, Cold Press Juicer for Rich Weirdos
7 mo on HNLonger-lasting light bulbs: it was complicated
6 mo on HNThe REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken
5 mo on HNA Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable
5 mo on HNBOLTR: DYSON HAIR DRYER. Is it WORTH the MONEY?
5 mo on HNThe lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps
4 mo on HNTearing Down the Model T of Our Time - Autoline After Hours 284
4 mo on HNThis is why we can't have nice things
3 mo on HNTesla Model 3: Inside & Out - Autoline After Hours 417
3 mo on HNWhat is Right to Repair? An introduction for curious people.
3 mo on HNApple's Independent Repair Program is a useless PR stunt.
3 mo on HNEEVblog #186 - Soldering Tutorial Part 3 - Surface Mount
3 mo on HNHow I Upgraded My iPhone Memory 800% - in Shenzhen, China
2 mo on HNHorrific USB power supply fault. (Electrocution risk.)
2 mo on HNTSP #133 - Keysight UXR 110GHz BW, 256GS/s, 10-bit Real-Time Oscilloscope Teardown & Experiments
2 mo on HNWhy I don't use Apple products
2 mo on HNBOLTR: KitchenAid Mixer. SURPRISE!
2 mo on HNReballing flip chip GPUs is BULLSHIT - the truth about dead laptop GPUs & repairing them.
2 mo on HNWe need to talk about failing keyboards on these new Macbooks.
2 mo on HNProfessional SMT Soldering: Hand Soldering Techniques - Surface Mount
2 mo on HNThe horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures.
2 mo on HNTractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly
2 mo on HNUpdate on my Brain Injury & the Future of Strange Parts
2 mo on HNDemo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
2 mo on HNTeletype Model 19 - Part 1: A Teletype Arrives for Restoration
2 mo on HNFixing Apple's GOOD Engineering - M1 MacBook Air thermal pads
2 mo on HNEEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown
2 mo on HNHow I Made My Own iPhone - in China
2 mo on HNThe IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II
2 mo on HNTOTAL teardown of a lithium phone battery.
2 mo on HNTeardown of an IKEA Koppla USB power supply.
1 mo on HNA COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop? - Framework Laptop Review
1 mo on HNEEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown
1 mo on HNTake a look inside Steam Deck™!
1 mo on HNApple uses spite to force planned obsolescence.
1 mo on HNAwesome flesh-burning death lamp. (Germicidal UV)
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Mentioned in HN threads about repair, teardowns & right to repair, though never formally recommended:
Bringing BACK The iPhone Headphone Jack - in China · Fixing Apple's Engineering in an Hour · Louis opens new Macbook Air, immediately loses mind. · My Framework Investment Should NOT Have Worked Out · iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design - Teardown and Repair Assessment · IS IT SPILL PROOF? Lenovo Thinkpad P50 review + spill damage test · Apple's soldered-in SSDs are engineered in the worst way possible · How most 16" Macbook Pros often kill themselves & why they're unfixable · Apple & Customs STOLE my batteries, that they won't even provide to AASPs. · Lobbyists imply right to repair helps domestic abusers, pushes racism and redlining! · Tearing Into Tesla's Model 3 · How Apple authorized repair refurbishes Macbooks to fail again! GPU kernel panics · NYC DOESN'T KNOW ITS OWN LAWS! · iPhone 14 Pro Programmed To Reject Repair - Teardown and Repair Assessment · DYSON ANIMAL BALLS | It blows! · The Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars · Brother Printer Genuine Toner Fix - Use Any Toner · What does authorized repair do? Let's find out! · iOS 4.0 on 3G iPhone (parody) · Civilization starter kit | Marcin Jakubowski | TEDxKC · 37C3 - Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains · Apple under fire for allegations of controversial business practices · Apple botches Macbook board design: again! · EEVblog #1107 - Shocking 4K BENQ Monitor Problem! · Louis Rossmann dismantles Apple's PR stunt "repair program" · Microsoft Surface laptop: unrepairable junk