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Repair, teardowns & right to repair Videos Recommended on Hacker News (80)

Repair, teardowns & right to repair is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 80 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 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.

6 mo on HN

BOLTR: Juicero, Cold Press Juicer for Rich Weirdos

AvE
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
7 mo on HN

Longer-lasting light bulbs: it was complicated

Technology Connections
9 HN recommender · 2023–2026
6 mo on HN

The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken

Johnny Harris
8 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HN

A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable

Adam Savage’s Tested
6 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HN

BOLTR: DYSON HAIR DRYER. Is it WORTH the MONEY?

AvE
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
5 mo on HN

The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

bigclivedotcom
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HN

Tearing Down the Model T of Our Time - Autoline After Hours 284

Autoline Network
6 HN recommender · 2015–2018
4 mo on HN

This is why we can't have nice things

Veritasium
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HN

Tesla Model 3: Inside & Out - Autoline After Hours 417

Autoline Network
5 HN recommender · 2018–2026
3 mo on HN

What is Right to Repair? An introduction for curious people.

Louis Rossmann
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
3 mo on HN

Apple's Independent Repair Program is a useless PR stunt.

Louis Rossmann
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HN

EEVblog #186 - Soldering Tutorial Part 3 - Surface Mount

EEVblog
3 HN recommender · 2012–2020
3 mo on HN

How I Upgraded My iPhone Memory 800% - in Shenzhen, China

Strange Parts
3 HN recommender · 2018–2021
2 mo on HN

Horrific USB power supply fault. (Electrocution risk.)

bigclivedotcom
2 HN recommender · 2016–2024
2 mo on HN

TSP #133 - Keysight UXR 110GHz BW, 256GS/s, 10-bit Real-Time Oscilloscope Teardown & Experiments

The Signal Path
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HN

Why I don't use Apple products

Louis Rossmann
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HN

BOLTR: KitchenAid Mixer. SURPRISE!

AvE
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
2 mo on HN

Reballing flip chip GPUs is BULLSHIT - the truth about dead laptop GPUs & repairing them.

Louis Rossmann
2 HN recommender · 2018–2019
2 mo on HN

We need to talk about failing keyboards on these new Macbooks.

Louis Rossmann
2 HN recommender · 2018–2019
2 mo on HN

Professional SMT Soldering: Hand Soldering Techniques - Surface Mount

John Gammell
2 HN recommender · 2016–2023
2 mo on HN

The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures.

Louis Rossmann
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HN

Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly

Motherboard
3 HN recommender · 2018–2018
2 mo on HN

Update on my Brain Injury & the Future of Strange Parts

Strange Parts
4 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HN

Demo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)

Applied Science
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN

Teletype Model 19 - Part 1: A Teletype Arrives for Restoration

CuriousMarc
2 HN recommender · 2019–2020
2 mo on HN

Fixing Apple's GOOD Engineering - M1 MacBook Air thermal pads

Linus Tech Tips
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HN

EEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown

EEVblog
2 HN recommender · 2016–2017
2 mo on HN

How I Made My Own iPhone - in China

Strange Parts
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HN

The IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II

CuriousMarc
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
2 mo on HN

TOTAL teardown of a lithium phone battery.

bigclivedotcom
1 HN recommend · 2016–2024
2 mo on HN

Teardown of an IKEA Koppla USB power supply.

bigclivedotcom
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
1 mo on HN

A COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop? - Framework Laptop Review

Linus Tech Tips
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
1 mo on HN

EEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown

EEVblog
3 HN recommender · 2016–2017
1 mo on HN

Take a look inside Steam Deck™!

Valve
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Apple uses spite to force planned obsolescence.

Louis Rossmann
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

Awesome flesh-burning death lamp. (Germicidal UV)

bigclivedotcom
1 HN recommend · 2018–2024