Curated by 19 years of Hacker News comments
HackerTube — The Videos Hacker News Keeps Recommending
HackerTube is a library of YouTube talks, lectures and documentaries that Hacker News commenters have pointed each other to since 2007 — each one shown with the comments that explain why it is worth your time.
- videos
- 6,454
- HN comments
- 39,834
- recommenders
- 9,563
- topics
- 150
TODAY’S PICKHow To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
Google TechTalks · talk
“Absolutely far and away the best resource that I found was this Google TechTalk by Joshua Bloch”
HN comment, 2012 · 12 recommenders · 2011–2025
Most recommended of all time
The top of the HackerTube ranking: the videos HN commenters recommended across the most separate months.
course#1Vectors | Chapter 1, Essence of linear algebra
3Blue1Brown
17 HN recommenders · 2018–2026
talk#2Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich
Confreaks
17 HN recommenders · 2013–2026
talk#3Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips
Andor Gafotas
19 HN recommenders · 2016–2024
lecture#4How to Speak
MIT OpenCourseWare
17 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
lecture#5The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd
Andrej Karpathy
17 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
talk#68 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
GDC Festival of Gaming
13 HN recommenders · 2018–2026
talk#7How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask framework
Видео с мероприятий {speach!
15 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
lecture#8AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)
AT&T Tech Channel
12 HN recommenders · 2014–2026
Browse by topic
HackerTube sorts its videos into 16 areas and 150 categories, from compilers and chip fabs to the stand-up comedy HN keeps quoting.
New on HN since last year
Videos added to HackerTube because Hacker News started recommending them in 2025 or later, as of Nov 2026.
lectureDeep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
Andrej Karpathy
10 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
talkCasey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
Better Software Conference
11 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
talkVeritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
6 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
documentaryI Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308
SmarterEveryDay
6 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
explainerYou are being misled about renewable energy technology.
Technology Connections
12 HN recommenders · 2026
talk38C3 - From Silicon to Sovereignty: How Advanced Chips are Redefining Global Dominance
media.ccc.de
5 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
demointroducing copyparty, the FOSS file server
tripflag
7 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
explainerYour Post Code Is the Directions, Not the Destination
CGP Grey
4 HN recommenders · 2025
What is HackerTube?
HackerTube is a library of the YouTube videos that Hacker News commenters recommend to each other. Instead of an algorithm guessing what will keep you watching, HackerTube starts from 39,834 comments in which real people pointed someone to a talk, a lecture or a documentary, usually with a sentence on why it mattered to them.
Every video on HackerTube keeps those comments. Open a video and you see who recommended it, in which thread and in what words, then watch it right there. HackerTube covers far more than programming: chip fabrication, physics lectures, urban planning, economics, and the comedy sketches HN keeps quoting.
How HackerTube ranks videos
HackerTube scores a video by the number of separate months in which someone on Hacker News recommended it, plus half a point for every month with an enthusiastic recommendation. A talk praised steadily for ten years beats one that trended for a day, which is why the HackerTube Top 100 reads like a syllabus rather than a list of viral clips.
Videos that were only cited and never recommended, news clips tied to a single event, and duplicate uploads stay out of the HackerTube rankings. They remain reachable from search.
Where to start on HackerTube
- HackerTube Top 100
The videos Hacker News has recommended most since 2007, each with the reason HN keeps sending people to it.
- Topics
150 categories, from functional programming and databases to space flight and stand-up comedy.
- Channels
The YouTube channels HN trusts most, from 3Blue1Brown and Veritasium to Strange Loop and CppCon. Each channel page ranks every video HN recommends.
- New on HN
Videos that joined HackerTube recently, updated every month from fresh Hacker News threads.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. HackerTube is free, needs no account and shows no autoplaying feed. Videos play through YouTube’s privacy-enhanced embed, right on the HackerTube video page.
From every Hacker News comment between 2007 and 2026 that links a YouTube video, via the open HackerTube dataset and the open-index/hacker-news archive. A video joins HackerTube once at least three different people mentioned it in three different months.
Every month. New Hacker News comments are scanned for YouTube links, and videos that pass the threshold appear in New on HN and in the HackerTube rankings.
No. HackerTube is an independent project built on open data. Each comment on HackerTube links back to its Hacker News thread, and each video links to YouTube.