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Tech company stories & documentaries Videos Recommended on Hacker News (204)

Tech company stories & documentaries is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 204 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2007 and 2026 — 258 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Tech company histories: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Yelp, Valve, documentaries about companies, product launches, advertising history, corporate culture and scandals.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Micro Men - 720p (2009): “'Micro Men' is an excellent TV drama” — an HN commenter, 2019.

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14 mo on HN

Micro Men - 720p (2009)

gimpymoo
15 HN recommender · 2015–2026
12 mo on HN

Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

The Documentary Network
13 HN recommender · 2015–2026
10 mo on HN

Ed Catmull, Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small

Stanford Graduate School of Business
9 HN recommender · 2010–2017
9 mo on HN

LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

USENIX
9 HN recommender · 2012–2026
6 mo on HN

Secret History of Silicon Valley

Computer History Museum
6 HN recommender · 2010–2026
4 mo on HN

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

Jenny Nicholson
4 HN recommender · 2024–2026
5 mo on HN

The Secret History of Silicon Valley

Google TechTalks
5 HN recommender · 2008–2016
5 mo on HN

Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence

znoopy2k
5 HN recommender · 2011–2013
4 mo on HN

Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History

Defunctland
7 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HN

Complete Apple WWDC | Steve Jobs talk and answer developers questions | 1997

TheAppleFanBoy - Apple & Computer Archives
4 HN recommender · 2018–2025
4 mo on HN

iPhone 1 - Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote in 2007 - Full Presentation, 80 mins

Protectstar Inc.
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HN

Steve Jobs Insult Response

Mike Cane
4 HN recommender · 2011–2022
4 mo on HN

Building Software Systems At Google and Lessons Learned

Stanford
4 HN recommender · 2012–2022
3 mo on HN

FailCon 2011 - Uber Case Study

BAMM.TV
3 HN recommender · 2012–2017
3 mo on HN

Think Different

英倫米高 Michael in England
3 HN recommender · 2007–2012
3 mo on HN

Macworld Boston 1997-The Microsoft Deal

JoshuaG
3 HN recommender · 2010–2024
3 mo on HN

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary

Valve
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
3 mo on HN

AT&T Archives: Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign

AT&T Tech Channel
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HN

The Company that Broke Canada

BobbyBroccoli
3 HN recommender · 2024–2026
3 mo on HN

Wired Interviews Bill Gates 1996

Kevin Kelly
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HN

Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions, and the Future of Corporations

blogphilofilms
3 HN recommender · 2015–2025
3 mo on HN

The Story of Tetris

Gaming Historian
4 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HN

What's It Really like Working at Valve?

People Make Games
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HN

3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell

Computer History Museum
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HN

How Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted: Stories From Pixar Animation: ENTV

@HOLLYWOOD
2 HN recommender · 2016–2026
2 mo on HN

Apple's World Wide Developers Conference 1997 with Steve Jobs

superapple4ever
2 HN recommender · 2012–2022
2 mo on HN

Steve Jobs introduces iPhone in 2007

John Schroter
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
2 mo on HN

This Invention Made Disney MILLIONS, but Then They LOST It!

Corridor Crew
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HN

Epic 2014

jessanmur
2 HN recommender · 2021–2026
2 mo on HN

Riot On Documentary (2002)

Caroline bruins
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HN

GENERAL MAGIC - Official Trailer

General Magic and the Soul of Tech
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HN

Steve Jobs iPhone 2007 Presentation (HD)

Jonathan
2 HN recommender · 2013–2023
2 mo on HN

Video from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos

07272009july
2 HN recommender · 2011–2018
2 mo on HN

Kevin Systrom: Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #243

Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HN

GraphQL: The Documentary

CultRepo
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HN

The Computer Chronicles - Hypercard (1987)

The Computer Chronicles
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025