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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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 HNThe lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps
4 mo on HNThis is why we can't have nice things
3 mo on HNWhat is Right to Repair? An introduction for curious people.
2 mo on HNTeardown of an IKEA Koppla USB power supply.
1 mo on HNA COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop? - Framework Laptop Review
1 mo on HNTSP #183 - Starlink Dish Phased Array Design, Architecture & RF In-depth Analysis
1 mo on HNThe EV Detroit is Dying to Benchmark - BYD Seagull
1 mo on HNMach-E Thermal System Part 2: A Detailed Comparison to the Model Y
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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