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951 videos Hacker News recommends in Computing History & Culture.

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Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips

210K views · 19 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)

AT&T Tech Channel

474K views · 12 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

Micro Men - 720p (2009)

461K views · 15 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

Jim Simons (full length interview) - Numberphile

1.4M views · 11 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer

2.8M views · 11 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

12.4M views · 13 HN recommenders · 2007–2015

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

339K views · 12 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

This Is Phil Fish

Innuendo Studios

1.4M views · 5 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)

Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras)

318K views · 7 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers

484K views · 13 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

The Documentary Network

338K views · 13 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

Bret Victor The Future of Programming

305K views · 12 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.

9M views · 13 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

Ed Catmull, Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small

Stanford Graduate School of Business

217K views · 9 HN recommenders · 2010–2017

Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful

60K views · 10 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)

242K views · 10 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

Growing a Language, by Guy Steele

165K views · 11 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

548K views · 11 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"

Paul Stringer's Mobile Tech

1.8M views · 10 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan

Vintage Computer Federation

418K views · 11 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)

securitylectures

369K views · 11 HN recommenders · 2012–2023

A Tour of the Acme Editor

151K views · 11 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

U.S. NAVY BASIC MECHANISMS OF FIRE CONTROL COMPUTERS MECHANICAL COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONAL FILM 27794

225K views · 11 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

A Mind Is Born (256 bytes)

1.2M views · 8 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

310K views · 9 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

4.1M views · 9 HN recommenders · 2007–2023

Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival

41K views · 7 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

The Problem With Facebook

3.1M views · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2018

Joe Rogan Experience #1035 - Paul Stamets

13.2M views · 10 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

CppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”

264K views · 13 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

"Money doesn't interest me" - Ton Roosendaal 2017 Interview

1.2M views · 7 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

1.2M views · 8 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70

742K views · 8 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)

Kenneth Friedman

44K views · 8 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

49.4M views · 9 HN recommenders · 2009–2023

AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System

AT&T Tech Channel

2.2M views · 10 HN recommenders · 2013–2026