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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.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on How to Speak: “drop what you're doing and watch it now” — an HN commenter, 2020.
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5 mo on HNLecture 01 - The Learning Problem
caltech
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023
5 mo on HNRandy Pausch Lecture: Time Management
Carnegie Mellon University
4 HN recommender · 2009–2021
5 mo on HNSpecial Topics - The Kalman Filter (1 of 55) What is a Kalman Filter?
Michel van Biezen
5 HN recommender · 2017–2025
4 mo on HNControl Bootcamp: Overview
Steve Brunton
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
5 mo on HNParticles, Fields and The Future of Physics - A Lecture by Sean Carroll
Fermilab
5 HN recommender · 2016–2022
5 mo on HNExponential Growth Arithmetic, Population and Energy, Dr. Albert A. Bartlett
Hiroob
5 HN recommender · 2019–2021
4 mo on HNSparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4
Sebastien Bubeck
7 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HNThe Unanswered Question 1973 1 Musical Phonology Bernstein Norton
cagin
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
4 mo on HNMarcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal
Michael Sugrue
4 HN recommender · 2022–2025
4 mo on HNPreface | MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus
MIT OpenCourseWare
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
4 mo on HNGreat Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming
Tom Wildenhain
4 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HN31 Hamming, Learning to Learn: You and Your Research, 6 June 1995
Hamming on Hamming: Learning to Learn
3 HN recommender · 2020–2024
4 mo on HNReal Analysis, Lecture 1: Constructing the Rational Numbers
HarveyMuddCollegeEDU
5 HN recommender · 2018–2024
5 mo on HNMarc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4
Marc Levoy
5 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HNNuclear 101: How Nuclear Bombs Work Part 1/2
Belfer Center
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
3 mo on HNHamming, Intro to The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (March 28, 1995)
securitylectures
3 HN recommender · 2016–2020
4 mo on HNSes 1: Introduction and Course Overview
MIT OpenCourseWare
5 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNRaft lecture (Raft user study)
Diego Ongaro
4 HN recommender · 2013–2025
4 mo on HNEntanglement and Complexity: Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
4 HN recommender · 2015–2023
3 mo on HNLecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)
YC Root Access
3 HN recommender · 2014–2024
4 mo on HNWhy is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer
The University of Chicago
9 HN recommender · 2022–2025
4 mo on HN2012 Burnett Lecture Part 1 Keynote Speaker: Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D.
UNC Learning Center
4 HN recommender · 2013–2022
4 mo on HNLecture 19: Dynamic Programming I: Fibonacci, Shortest Paths
MIT OpenCourseWare
4 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNLecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)
Stanford
3 HN recommender · 2011–2024
3 mo on HN2. Behavioral Evolution
Stanford
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNHow to Find Product Market Fit - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Stanford Online
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HNBuilding Your Own Dynamic Language
Stanford
3 HN recommender · 2009–2014
3 mo on HNLecture: Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God
Jordan B Peterson
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HNLec 1 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008
MIT OpenCourseWare
4 HN recommender · 2010–2012
3 mo on HNLecture 1: Introduction to Power and Politics in Today’s World
YaleCourses
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNDonald B. Gillies Lecture: Dr. Michael Stonebraker
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
2 HN recommender · 2018–2024
3 mo on HNSustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air with David MacKay
Harvard University
3 HN recommender · 2015–2017
3 mo on HNRobert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Stanford Iranian Studies Program
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNLecture 1: Probability and Counting | Statistics 110
Harvard University
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNLecture 1 | Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
Stanford University School of Engineering
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
3 mo on HN23. Language
Stanford
3 HN recommender · 2015–2024