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.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated) [OUTDATED]: “This guy literally has a PhD in SM64. It's insanely complicated, and surprisingly lucid.” — an HN commenter, 2018.
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12 mo on HNSM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated) [OUTDATED]
12 mo on HNReverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!
10 mo on HNMarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games
9 mo on HNSNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW
7 mo on HNFIXING the ENTIRE SM64 Source Code (INSANE N64 performance)
4 mo on HNMyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod
5 mo on HNHow lucky is too lucky?: The Minecraft Speedrunning Dream Controversy Explained
4 mo on HN[TAS] Pokémon Yellow - Arbitrary Code Execution
3 mo on HNTasBlock at AGDQ 2017: TASBot
3 mo on HNDid Nintendo really forget to Optimize Super Mario 64 ? | MVG
3 mo on HNWalls, Floors, & Ceilings
3 mo on HN[Epilepsy Warning] Choco Mountain: The History of Mario Kart 64's Most Infamous Track
3 mo on HNSega Saturn CD - Cracked after 20 years
3 mo on HN"Devs Play" S1E06 - Psychonauts "The SMK Speedrun" [1/1]
2 mo on HNSuper Mario World -- Credits Warp in 5:59.6 (First Time Ever on Console)
3 mo on HNHow We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History
3 mo on HNConsole Hacking 2016 (33c3)
3 mo on HNThe Complete History of the A Button Challenge
2 mo on HNThe Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Speedrun in 22:38, live at AGDQ2013
2 mo on HNHow I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code
2 mo on HNOcarina of Time TAS by dwangoAC, TASBot, Savestate, Sauraen in 53:05 - Summer Games Done Quick 2022
2 mo on HNRustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin
2 mo on HN27c3: Console Hacking 2010 (en)
2 mo on HNHow a Laser-Shot Disk Defeats Hackers & Pirates (Coding Secrets)
2 mo on HNWhy does PUNCHING Sonic 3D trigger a Secret Level Select?
2 mo on HNThe Fall of Minecraft's 2b2t
2 mo on HNThe History of Tetris World Records
2 mo on HNSuper Mario World Credits Warp Explained
1 mo on HN[TAS] [Obsoleted] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version "arbitrary code execution" by Fracta[...] in 03:14.15
1 mo on HNHow the Minecraft Title Screen Seed was Found
1 mo on HNDCEmu Reviews - 27C3 - Chaos Communication Congress 2010 - fail0verflow - FULL VIDEO
1 mo on HNRaycasting engine in Factorio (vanilla 0.17) - Facto-RayO v1.0
1 mo on HNVACNET Anti-cheat
1 mo on HNQuake done Quick - Quake done Quickest
1 mo on HNArmok Invaders
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