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VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video](youtube.com)

62 points by zdw 1 day ago | 14 comments

YouTube video by Wave Design showing footage from Vintage Computer Festival Southwest 2026 edited into a '90s-style TV reel using SGI workstations and period video hardware.

One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video](youtube.com)

47 points by Teever 2 days ago | 4 comments

YouTube video from Coolest Thing about Anthony Toth, who recreated a full 1970s Pan Am Boeing 747 cabin replica, first in his garage and later in a warehouse.

"Flying Tesla is just another Lie" [TopCars TV] [video](youtube.com)

9 points by Kevin_Flynn 4 days ago | 0 comments

A TopCars TV YouTube video arguing that Tesla's claimed flying Roadster is unrealistic and another overpromise.

The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video](youtube.com)

35 points by zdw 5 days ago | 32 comments

YouTube video from Perfect Play simulating eight Monopoly strategies over 312 million games to identify the best approach and common mistakes.

I built a drone with only one motor [video](youtube.com)

624 points by hakonjdjohnsen 7 days ago | 139 comments

YouTube video by Joshua Bird showing how he built and flew a drone that uses only a single motor.

Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video](youtube.com)

60 points by jackdoe 8 days ago | 8 comments

A 13-minute YouTube video by Dr.Semiconductor demonstrating how to make solar panels using a microwave as part of the fabrication process.

There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video](youtube.com)

521 points by mdp2021 8 days ago | 728 comments

A 3Blue1Brown YouTube video arguing there has never been a better time to go into mathematics, discussing AI's role in math.

RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video](youtube.com)

224 points by evakhoury 8 days ago | 74 comments

Recurse Center YouTube talk by Max Bittker presenting RuneScapeBench, a benchmark using a RuneScape server to evaluate AI agents in an MMO.

Beyond Tetris: The other games of Alexey Pajitnov [video](youtube.com)

53 points by zdw 8 days ago | 5 comments

A two-hour YouTube video by RndStranger surveying the lesser-known games created by Tetris designer Alexey Pajitnov.

Tesla Unveils 'Flying' Roadster with SpaceX Thrusters [video](youtube.com)

53 points by skadamat 10 days ago | 41 comments

YouTube video from VideoFromSpace showing Tesla's unveiling of a 'flying' Roadster that uses SpaceX thrusters.

Tesla makes cars that fly? [video](youtube.com)

57 points by merinpapz10 10 days ago | 35 comments

A 45-second Tesla YouTube video titled "The Ramp | Roadster" showing a car on a tall curved ramp structure, teasing the Roadster.

Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video](youtube.com)

67 points by zdw 10 days ago | 42 comments

A der8auer YouTube video analyzing how liquid metal thermal compound reacts with PC components, including results from a two-year test.

How gyroscopes got so small [video](youtube.com)

74 points by surprisetalk 11 days ago | 34 comments

A Primal Space YouTube video explaining the history and engineering of how gyroscopes were miniaturized, starting from a 1914 Paris aviation demonstration.

16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory(youtube.com)

58 points by oliculipolicula 11 days ago | 18 comments

A YouTube video from Japanese channel dydt製作所 demonstrating a DIY, fully functional tiny 16-bit magnetic core memory board built with 1970s East German cores.

Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video](youtube.com)

802 points by johnnyApplePRNG 13 days ago | 236 comments

CTV News YouTube video about a Vancouver woman who rescued an injured crow and now regularly receives 'thank-you gifts' from crows.

Stopping sand from destroying a hydropower turbine [video](youtube.com)

24 points by CaliforniaKarl 13 days ago | 3 comments

YouTube video from Hydro Vision explaining how engineers prevent sand and sediment from eroding hydropower turbines.

GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video](youtube.com)

110 points by pizzaiolo 15 days ago | 30 comments

YouTube video from Bo Made It showing a Game Boy emulator running on an ESP32 with an e-paper display at 30 frames per second.

Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video](youtube.com)

25 points by zdw 15 days ago | 36 comments

A Practical Engineering YouTube video explaining the various types of US electrical outlets and plug standards.

LGTM (Looks Good to Me) – Claude Opus 5.5 Music Video(youtube.com)

10 points by edmorley 17 days ago | 4 comments

A YouTube music video titled "LGTM (Looks Good to Me)" about AI coding agents and code review, labeled as AI-generated and credited to Claude Opus 5.5.

Bender: AI's 'Existential' Risk Is 'Fake' [video](youtube.com)

6 points by Moru 19 days ago | 0 comments

Bloomberg Tech YouTube interview with linguist Emily Bender arguing that claims of existential risk from AI are fake and distract from real harms.

VECOS – A windows-like operating system for the Vectrex for the UVMC2 [video](youtube.com)

49 points by CharlesW 19 days ago | 12 comments

YouTube video by Arcade Jason demonstrating VECOS, a Windows-like operating system for the Vectrex console running via the UVMC2 cartridge.

Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video](youtube.com)

22 points by ptrhvns 21 days ago | 39 comments

A YouTube video from The Atlantic's The Permanent Questions in which David Brooks interviews Jonathan Haidt about AI's impact on education.

Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video](youtube.com)

70 points by signa11 21 days ago | 36 comments

AI Engineer World's Fair talk video in which Stanford's John Ousterhout presents Homa, a transport protocol proposed to replace TCP in AI datacenter clusters.

How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video](youtube.com)

86 points by simonjgreen 22 days ago | 35 comments

YouTube video of Lenny's Podcast with Stripe's Katie Dill on scaling intent, quality, and artistry in product design with AI.

French Bond Risk Hits Euro-Crisis Levels [video](youtube.com)

8 points by thelastgallon 23 days ago | 2 comments

A YouTube video reporting that the risk premium on French government bonds has risen to levels last seen during the euro-area debt crisis.

Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (2023)(youtube.com)

62 points by bobajeff 23 days ago | 30 comments

YouTube video of Grant Sanderson's JPBM Communications Award lecture at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings, titled "Math's pedagogical curse."

What if we stopped using GPUs? [video](youtube.com)

36 points by sandslash 23 days ago | 8 comments

YouTube video from Y Combinator's Paper Club, about 1h20m long, discussing the LeWorldModel paper on stable end-to-end JEPA world models trained from pixels.

Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video](youtube.com)

313 points by usernomdeguerre 24 days ago | 114 comments

YouTube video of Greg Kroah-Hartman's Kernel Recipes talk "Security in the LLM age" on Linux kernel security in the era of large language models.

PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook [video](youtube.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 27 days ago | 5 comments

A YouTube video from Ink & Switch and Local-First Conf presenting PlayBook, a programmable paper notebook.

Mechanochemistry of Molecular Motors [video](youtube.com)

11 points by surprisetalk 27 days ago | 2 comments

YouTube video of a Foresight Institute talk by Jonathon Howard on the mechanochemistry of molecular motors.

Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video](youtube.com)

82 points by Rochus 28 days ago | 28 comments

A Computer History Museum YouTube video featuring a 1.5-hour oral history interview with John Chowning, inventor of FM sound synthesis.

SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video](youtube.com)

146 points by CharlesW 28 days ago | 43 comments

YouTube video of an SNL Weekend Update comedy sketch featuring a parody of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei discussing AI's threat to humanity.

Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video](youtube.com)

60 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 11 comments

YouTube video of Richard Feldman's FUNARCH'26 keynote 'Functional Mechanical Sympathy', posted by ACM SIGPLAN.

Deterministic Concurrency [video](youtube.com)

76 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 5 comments

YouTube video from ACM SIGPLAN of an ICFP 2026 talk titled "Deterministic Concurrency" filmed in Indianapolis.

Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video](youtube.com)

132 points by behoove 1 month ago | 24 comments

YouTube clip of Alan Kay at Kristen Nygaard's centenary symposium, caught in a delayed Zoom audio feedback loop while remarking on Shannon and noisy channels.

Patrick Boyle: The Copy-Paste Professor(youtube.com)

11 points by galkk 1 month ago | 6 comments

A Gurubusters YouTube video alleging that finance YouTuber and former hedge fund manager Patrick Boyle plagiarized material, including in his derivatives textbook.

Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A (2010) [video](youtube.com)

21 points by philistine 1 month ago | 12 comments

YouTube video of Apple's 2010 iPhone 4 "Antennagate" press event Q&A with Steve Jobs, Tim Cook and Bob Mansfield.

Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video](youtube.com)

55 points by 1659447091 1 month ago | 38 comments

Guardian News YouTube video showing a six-year-old girl in Wuhan, China breaking the women's world record for solving a Rubik's Cube.

Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video](youtube.com)

420 points by an0malous 1 month ago | 467 comments

YouTube video of DHH's opening keynote at the Rails World 2026 conference, posted by the Ruby on Rails channel.

BYD Slashes Price of Electric Car and Becomes Cheapest in Australia [video](youtube.com)

33 points by thelastgallon 1 month ago | 36 comments

From Geometry to Algebra and Back Again: 4000 Years of Papers (2023) [video](youtube.com)

28 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 0 comments

Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing(youtube.com)

104 points by chadgpt3 1 month ago | 58 comments

Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video](youtube.com)

47 points by emerongi 1 month ago | 7 comments

Sony's First Computer – The SMC-70 from 1982 [video](youtube.com)

56 points by ksymph 1 month ago | 15 comments

LG Says We're Fake News [video](youtube.com)

227 points by HelloUsername 1 month ago | 106 comments

Why Bullshit Jobs Are (Finally) Dying [video](youtube.com)

16 points by mpweiher 1 month ago | 7 comments

Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025)(youtube.com)

81 points by binyu 1 month ago | 24 comments

IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video](youtube.com)

562 points by kegenaar 1 month ago | 155 comments

YouTube video from IKEA Ireland promoting KALLAX Storageborn, a free creation (mod) for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

How do you rotate in four dimensions? From Zero to Geo 3.10 [video](youtube.com)

8 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 0 comments

Prompting Is Dead in 6 Months. Andrew Ng, Stanford [video](youtube.com)

20 points by thelastgallon 1 month ago | 9 comments

216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video](youtube.com)

768 points by treve 1 month ago | 914 comments

Gamers Nexus YouTube video investigating LG smart TVs' data collection, including audio logging and snooping on local network devices.

Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video](youtube.com)

194 points by tosh 1 month ago | 86 comments

Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video](youtube.com)

91 points by stefan_ 1 month ago | 18 comments

LG TVs aren't the only ones spying on you [video](youtube.com)

8 points by someonebaggy 1 month ago | 0 comments

Write Software in Latin (2025) [video](youtube.com)

38 points by akkartik 1 month ago | 17 comments

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video](youtube.com)

459 points by feb 1 month ago | 344 comments

Y Combinator YouTube video titled "The World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew," about a record-size electric plane's first flight.

A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video](youtube.com)

381 points by keithcarolus 1 month ago | 58 comments

YouTube video from Grow Now! Games showing a walkable ASCII-rendered cyberpunk city built in a single HTML file.

Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video](youtube.com)

582 points by matthewsinclair 1 month ago | 77 comments

A Big Think YouTube video in which mathematician Terence Tao explains six essential concepts of mathematics.

Reckless Ben Exposing the largest human trafficking ring in the world(youtube.com)

8 points by Varelion 1 month ago | 0 comments

Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look [video](youtube.com)

10 points by piotrgrabowski 1 month ago | 1 comments

Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video](youtube.com)

300 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 174 comments

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video](youtube.com)

293 points by zoenolan 2 months ago | 90 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video](youtube.com)

221 points by neom 2 months ago | 37 comments

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video](youtube.com)

71 points by tobr 2 months ago | 18 comments

IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video](youtube.com)

73 points by kls0e 2 months ago | 42 comments

Supersonic Trebuchet [video](youtube.com)

228 points by CharlesW 2 months ago | 101 comments

It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video](youtube.com)

68 points by whosgotch 2 months ago | 47 comments

The Legend of the Novell NE2000 [video](youtube.com)

53 points by voxadam 2 months ago | 20 comments

Why Wall Street Is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt(youtube.com)

44 points by johnbarron 2 months ago | 36 comments

70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic(youtube.com)

32 points by johnbarron 2 months ago | 6 comments

Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video](youtube.com)

168 points by Bender 2 months ago | 41 comments

Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video](youtube.com)

63 points by jackdoe 2 months ago | 41 comments

How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video](youtube.com)

73 points by NaOH 2 months ago | 37 comments

I built a jellyfish laboratory in my backyard [video](youtube.com)

32 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 3 comments

A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video](youtube.com)

73 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 8 comments

RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video](youtube.com)

33 points by evakhoury 2 months ago | 7 comments

Interview with Boris Cherny [video](youtube.com)

64 points by knighthacker 3 months ago | 68 comments

Politician reads AI prompt during assembly(youtube.com)

35 points by root-parent 3 months ago | 16 comments

Don't Take the Black Pill [video](youtube.com)

202 points by signa11 3 months ago | 174 comments

Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video](youtube.com)

157 points by Bootvis 3 months ago | 156 comments

Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser [video](youtube.com)

83 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 4 comments

Mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video](youtube.com)

70 points by kadohg 3 months ago | 39 comments

Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video](youtube.com)

37 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 12 comments

Taiwan's Lost 8-Bit Computer [video](youtube.com)

20 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 1 comments

A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video](youtube.com)

485 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 169 comments

A 1:17 YouTube video from First Class Amateur demonstrating a better knot for tying gym shorts or any drawstring.

Home made GPU escalated quickly [video](youtube.com)

157 points by erichocean 3 months ago | 49 comments

Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video](youtube.com)

67 points by Semkas 3 months ago | 41 comments

Ed Zitron on CNBC: GenAI Doesn't Work, and Big Tech Is Out of Hypergrowth Ideas(youtube.com)

26 points by johnbarron 3 months ago | 19 comments

Atomic Force Microscope [video](youtube.com)

111 points by mhb 3 months ago | 15 comments

Beyond Git: Real-Time Version Control for Godot – Lilith Duncan – GodotCon 2026 [video](youtube.com)

43 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 2 comments

I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video](youtube.com)

84 points by skibz 4 months ago | 16 comments

Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News(youtube.com)

35 points by RicoElectrico 4 months ago | 36 comments

Let's Decode the Mystery Bytes [video](youtube.com)

20 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 3 comments

15 sorting algorithms in 6 minutes (2013) [video](youtube.com)

30 points by akkartik 4 months ago | 4 comments

Five monitors on a Commodore 128 [video](youtube.com)

123 points by EvanAnderson 4 months ago | 22 comments

Remaking BBC test cards to teach you video processing(youtube.com)

71 points by unleaded 4 months ago | 4 comments

Nintendo Wii U games running from a 1980's Bernoulli disk [video](youtube.com)

89 points by zdw 4 months ago | 38 comments

Coding a Brick Tower [video](youtube.com)

14 points by tobr 4 months ago | 5 comments

I Think They [Anthropic] Are Lying to You [video](youtube.com)

55 points by salutis 4 months ago | 37 comments

The $15,000 AI Bill. Your $20 Subscription is a DELUSION [video](youtube.com)

12 points by Vasniktel 4 months ago | 15 comments

AMD Gaslights Security Researcher, Changes Rules Retroactively [video](youtube.com)

20 points by SockThief 4 months ago | 8 comments

I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video](youtube.com)

163 points by alexis-d 4 months ago | 85 comments

Tribute to Jiro Yamada, Automotive Artist (1960-2025) [video](youtube.com)

41 points by NaOH 4 months ago | 4 comments

I thought I knew how electrolysis worked [video](youtube.com)

93 points by tambourine_man 4 months ago | 10 comments

Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video](youtube.com)

34 points by zdw 4 months ago | 9 comments

“The Apple Boogie“ 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape [video](youtube.com)

42 points by 1970-01-01 4 months ago | 11 comments

The Framework 12 is dead. Apple killed it [video](youtube.com)

16 points by throwaway2037 5 months ago | 26 comments

IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization [video](youtube.com)

60 points by DaiPlusPlus 5 months ago | 30 comments

The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About [video](youtube.com)

23 points by zdw 5 months ago | 7 comments

You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video](youtube.com)

16 points by bwidlar 5 months ago | 10 comments

Google IO 26 Keynote [video](youtube.com)

25 points by Dinux 5 months ago | 2 comments

Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video](youtube.com)

129 points by CHB0403085482 5 months ago | 95 comments

Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth(youtube.com)

54 points by tzury 5 months ago | 6 comments

I 3D Printed Origami [video](youtube.com)

60 points by Teever 5 months ago | 9 comments

Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video](youtube.com)

30 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 22 comments

Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video](youtube.com)

126 points by abstrus 5 months ago | 38 comments

Mark Cuban: OpenAI Will Never Return the $1T It's Investing [video](youtube.com)

13 points by operatingthetan 5 months ago | 8 comments

Defeating Works by Design's Unpickable Lock [video](youtube.com)

13 points by zdw 5 months ago | 4 comments

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video](youtube.com)

316 points by brudgers 5 months ago | 84 comments

Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video](youtube.com)

42 points by areoform 5 months ago | 37 comments