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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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2 mo on HNRecent Developments in Deep Learning
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2010–2026
2 mo on HNInternational Colloquia #26: Fusion Reactor First Wall Cooling
MIT MechE Lectures & Colloquia
2 HN recommender · 2021–2026
2 mo on HNDispelling the Myths of Nuclear Energy (Live Lecture)
Illinois EnergyProf
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNTrends in Deep Learning Hardware: Bill Dally (NVIDIA)
Paul G. Allen School
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNLecture 1 | Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
Stanford University School of Engineering
2 HN recommender · 2018–2025
1 mo on HNComputer Security 161 Cryptocurrency Lecture
Nicholas C Weaver
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNCS231n Winter 2016: Lecture1: Introduction and Historical Context
Andrej Karpathy
2 HN recommender · 2016–2023
1 mo on HNAnton: A Special-Purpose Machine That Achieves a Hundred-Fold Speedup in Biomolecular Simulations
NC State
1 HN recommend · 2014–2025
1 mo on HNLecture 7A: Metacircular Evaluator, Part 1
MIT OpenCourseWare
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNLecture 1B | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986
MIT OpenCourseWare
1 HN recommend · 2015–2017
1 mo on HNRichard Feynman - The.Character.of.Physical.Law - Part 2 (full version)
Tinkerin' Thinkers
1 HN recommend · 2013–2018
1 mo on HNRichard Feynman Messenger Lectures at Cornell The Character of Physical Law Part 1 The Law of Gravitation
TalkReelTV
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HN14. Limbic System
Stanford
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HNThesis: Partial State in Dataflow-Based Materialized Views
Jon Gjengset
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN21. Chaos and Reductionism
Stanford
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HNLecture 3 - Before the Startup (Paul Graham)
YC Root Access
1 HN recommend · 2014–2024
1 mo on HNSICP / What is "Computer Science" ?
LarryNorman
1 HN recommend · 2008–2014
0 mo on HNLecture 7A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986
MIT OpenCourseWare
0 HN recommender · 2013–2019
0 mo on HN1 - L'énergie - Cours des Mines 2019 - Jancovici - [EN subtitles available]
Jean-Marc Jancovici
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024