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Speedrunning, glitches & game hacking Videos Recommended on Hacker News (47)

Speedrunning, glitches & game hacking 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 2011 and 2026 — 124 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Speedrunning: tool-assisted speedruns, glitches, exploits, arbitrary code execution in games, game hacking, modding, reverse engineering games, Summoning Salt-style histories.

Speedrunning, glitches & game hacking Videos Recommended on Hacker News (47)

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SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated) [OUTDATED]

Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!

MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games

SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW

FIXING the ENTIRE SM64 Source Code (INSANE N64 performance)

MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod

How lucky is too lucky?: The Minecraft Speedrunning Dream Controversy Explained

[TAS] Pokémon Yellow - Arbitrary Code Execution

TasBlock at AGDQ 2017: TASBot

Did Nintendo really forget to Optimize Super Mario 64 ? | MVG

Walls, Floors, & Ceilings

[Epilepsy Warning] Choco Mountain: The History of Mario Kart 64's Most Infamous Track

Sega Saturn CD - Cracked after 20 years

"Devs Play" S1E06 - Psychonauts "The SMK Speedrun" [1/1]

Super Mario World -- Credits Warp in 5:59.6 (First Time Ever on Console)

How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History

Console Hacking 2016 (33c3)

The Complete History of the A Button Challenge

How I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code

Ocarina of Time TAS by dwangoAC, TASBot, Savestate, Sauraen in 53:05 - Summer Games Done Quick 2022

RustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin

27c3: Console Hacking 2010 (en)

How a Laser-Shot Disk Defeats Hackers & Pirates (Coding Secrets)

Why does PUNCHING Sonic 3D trigger a Secret Level Select?

The History of Tetris World Records

Super Mario World Credits Warp Explained

[TAS] [Obsoleted] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version "arbitrary code execution" by Fracta[...] in 03:14.15

How the Minecraft Title Screen Seed was Found

DCEmu Reviews - 27C3 - Chaos Communication Congress 2010 - fail0verflow - FULL VIDEO

Raycasting engine in Factorio (vanilla 0.17) - Facto-RayO v1.0

Quake done Quick - Quake done Quickest

Armok Invaders

TASBot plays Brain Age by micro500, xy2_ in 20:06 - Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - Part 154

First NetHack bot ascension

Touhou 8 東方永夜抄 ~ Imperishable Night - Perfect Stage 6A Lunatic (NMNB)

[TAS] Super Mario World "Arbitrary Code Execution" in 02:25.19 by Masterjun