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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.

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University lectures & courses Videos Recommended on Hacker News (127)

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Stanford Seminar - Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to Metal

Lecture 1 | The Theoretical Minimum

The "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch

2017 Personality 01: Introduction

Efficient Bayesian inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo -- Michael Betancourt (Part 1)

Google Python Class Day 1 Part 1

Hamming, "n-Dimensional Space" (April 14, 1995)

Lecture 7: Introduction to Galois Fields for the AES by Christof Paar

17. Succinct Structures I

Ron Vale (UCSF, HHMI) 1: Molecular Motor Proteins

1. Introduction, Finite Automata, Regular Expressions

Lecture 1: Introduction to Information Theory

26. Chernobyl — How It Happened

Lec 1 | MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2010

CS480/680 Lecture 19: Attention and Transformer Networks

MIT Godel Escher Bach Lecture 1

Special Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls

Category Theory by Tom LaGatta

Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)

Arithmetic, Population and Energy - FULL LENGTH

"Understanding Burnout," Prof. Christina Maslach (U.C. Berkeley)

Terence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder, UCLA

Practical Deep Learning for Coders: Lesson 1

2017 Personality 18: Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I

Peter Singer - ordinary people are evil

Sacha Arnoud, Director of Engineering, Waymo - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Lecture 1 | Convex Optimization I (Stanford)

Episode 1: Introduction - The Mechanical Universe

Lecture by Douglas Hofstadter: Albert Einstein on Light; Light on Albert Einstein

1.1 - Course outline

Rick Roderick on Baudrillard - Fatal Strategies [full length]

The Myth of the Robber Barons with Burt Folsom

Dr. Robert Sapolsky's lecture about Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity

1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018

Lecture 1 | Programming Methodology (Stanford)

Introduction to Investing and Finance - Lesson 1 by Martin Shkreli