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University lectures & courses Videos Recommended on Hacker News (127)
University lectures & courses is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 127 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 580 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Full university lectures and course series: MIT OpenCourseWare, Stanford, Harvard lectures, introductory course lecture 1, lecture series across subjects, professor lectures.
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16 mo on HNHow to Speak
MIT OpenCourseWare
17 HN recommender · 2020–2025
15 mo on HN1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
Stanford
15 HN recommender · 2012–2026
14 mo on HNLEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively
UChicago Social Sciences
15 HN recommender · 2019–2026
13 mo on HNMIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy (IAP 2017) - Zach Hartwig
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
16 HN recommender · 2017–2023
12 mo on HNStanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)
Stanford
14 HN recommender · 2009–2026
12 mo on HNJustice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"
Harvard University
11 HN recommender · 2013–2025
12 mo on HNLec 1 | MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005
MIT OpenCourseWare
11 HN recommender · 2011–2020
12 mo on HNRandy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Carnegie Mellon University
12 HN recommender · 2008–2023
10 mo on HNLecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp
MIT OpenCourseWare
10 HN recommender · 2019–2026
9 mo on HNLecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986
MIT OpenCourseWare
11 HN recommender · 2012–2024
10 mo on HNThe Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)
wonderingmind42
13 HN recommender · 2010–2025
11 mo on HNLecture 1 | Machine Learning (Stanford)
Stanford
11 HN recommender · 2008–2020
9 mo on HNConfessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur
UMBCtube
9 HN recommender · 2009–2023
10 mo on HNThe Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren
University of California Television (UCTV)
10 HN recommender · 2008–2022
9 mo on HNRL Course by David Silver - Lecture 1: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Google DeepMind
9 HN recommender · 2017–2026
8 mo on HNLecture 6: Version Control (git) (2020)
Missing Semester
9 HN recommender · 2020–2023
8 mo on HN30 Essential Ideas you should know about ADHD, 1A Intro, Chronic Developmental Disability
Adhd Videos
9 HN recommender · 2017–2024
9 mo on HNCategory Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy
Bartosz Milewski
11 HN recommender · 2016–2026
8 mo on HNAnalogy as the Core of Cognition
Stanford
7 HN recommender · 2012–2025
6 mo on HNLecture: 2017 Maps of Meaning 01: Context and Background
Jordan B Peterson
6 HN recommender · 2017–2022
7 mo on HNRichard Feynman Computer Science Lecture - Hardware, Software and Heuristics
Muon Ray
8 HN recommender · 2013–2026
6 mo on HNRichard Feynman - The.Character of Physical Law - Part 1 The Law of Gravitation (full version)
Tinkerin' Thinkers
6 HN recommender · 2013–2022
6 mo on HN01 - Course Introduction & Relational Model (CMU Databases Systems / Fall 2019)
CMU Database Group
6 HN recommender · 2020–2023
7 mo on HNEp. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction
John Vervaeke’s Lectern
6 HN recommender · 2019–2022
6 mo on HNVladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
Yale University
10 HN recommender · 2020–2023
6 mo on HNKurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories (subtitulos castellano)
Eva CollinsAlonso
6 HN recommender · 2019–2024
6 mo on HNPaxos lecture (Raft user study)
Diego Ongaro
6 HN recommender · 2013–2024
6 mo on HNJack Szostak (Harvard/HHMI) Part 1: The Origin of Cellular Life on Earth
Science Communication Lab
6 HN recommender · 2016–2021
5 mo on HNGreat Earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest
Central Washington University
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNTimothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion
YaleCourses
6 HN recommender · 2022–2025
6 mo on HNPythagoras' theorem (a) | Math History | NJ Wildberger
Insights into Mathematics
6 HN recommender · 2014–2024
6 mo on HNJancovici : Can we save energy, jobs and growth at the same time ? 08/01/2018
Jean-Marc Jancovici
6 HN recommender · 2019–2023
6 mo on HNFloyd Toole - Sound reproduction – art and science/opinions and facts
CIRMMT
4 HN recommender · 2019–2026
5 mo on HNStanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"A Conjecture That Had To Be True" (2017)
Stanford Online
1 HN recommend · 2017–2023
5 mo on HNDistributed Systems 1.1: Introduction
Martin Kleppmann
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
6 mo on HNLecture 1: Introduction
MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025