129 stories tagged youtube, newest first.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/25/ab42a469-f261-4738-8ac8-96631bffbce2.jpg)
62 points by zdw | 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.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: "Flying Tesla is just another Lie" [TopCars TV] [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/22/fa9955d5-68f4-44cd-a614-f1806c4ed143.jpg)
9 points by Kevin_Flynn | 0 comments
A TopCars TV YouTube video arguing that Tesla's claimed flying Roadster is unrealistic and another overpromise.
334 points by CraftThatBlock | 144 comments
A blog tutorial explaining how to remove ads from Android TV and Google TV, including the home screen banner and YouTube ads.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: I built a drone with only one motor [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/19/5b17e313-c36e-4365-9533-ae8a8b432408.jpg)
624 points by hakonjdjohnsen | 139 comments
YouTube video by Joshua Bird showing how he built and flew a drone that uses only a single motor.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/20/d0c24d10-4ef5-497d-b845-e709744b58ac.jpg)
60 points by jackdoe | 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.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/18/cd65365e-6f6d-4b41-be70-e0902d2707dc.jpg)
521 points by mdp2021 | 728 comments
A 3Blue1Brown YouTube video arguing there has never been a better time to go into mathematics, discussing AI's role in math.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Beyond Tetris: The other games of Alexey Pajitnov [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/18/9ba83e4a-7741-40e8-9ae8-93f5e7c188ff.jpg)
53 points by zdw | 5 comments
A two-hour YouTube video by RndStranger surveying the lesser-known games created by Tetris designer Alexey Pajitnov.
58 points by oliculipolicula | 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.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Stopping sand from destroying a hydropower turbine [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/15/9d16476b-9bd9-4ae0-949f-03da952aece7.jpg)
24 points by CaliforniaKarl | 3 comments
YouTube video from Hydro Vision explaining how engineers prevent sand and sediment from eroding hydropower turbines.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/12/30ce193d-1127-4846-8ed5-cb58c8198c29.jpg)
25 points by zdw | 36 comments
A Practical Engineering YouTube video explaining the various types of US electrical outlets and plug standards.
51 points by theanonymousone | 53 comments
Barchart news article reporting MrBeast told Mark Cuban he spends millions reverse engineering each platform's algorithms to keep generating video ideas.
605 points by gumby | 330 comments
Gizmodo article about a YouTuber who says police visited him after he built a Flock-style license plate camera to track police vehicles.
10 points by edmorley | 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.
15 points by rdmuser | 10 comments
Fog-Bank project page explaining how it captures and archives every frame from FogCam, the oldest running webcam, including its pipeline to YouTube and failure tracking.
33 points by STRiDEX | 34 comments
Blog post by Scott Cooper arguing Meta's Muse AI assistant is more useful for scraping data from Reddit and YouTube and cheap AI tokens than as a personal assistant.
74 points by speckx | 46 comments
Jim Nielsen blog post responding to Marques Brownlee's "Dear YouTube" video on YouTube's A/B test video variants and what it means for software makers.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/1/95cdc214-bb48-46b8-8bf9-f26bdc71e640.jpg)
26 points by surprisetalk | 5 comments
A YouTube video from Ink & Switch and Local-First Conf presenting PlayBook, a programmable paper notebook.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/27/11225928-ac3f-47bd-8bc1-10a3c1ecee87.jpg)
146 points by CharlesW | 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.
11 points by galkk | 6 comments
A Gurubusters YouTube video alleging that finance YouTuber and former hedge fund manager Patrick Boyle plagiarized material, including in his derivatives textbook.
487 points by Qision | 270 comments
GitHub repository for PipePipe, an open-source GPL-3.0 Android app forked from NewPipe for browsing YouTube and other services with SponsorBlock.
377 points by shubhamjain | 281 comments
Ed West's Substack essay on children's media diets and doomscrolling, discussing James Marriott's 'The New Dark Ages'.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/4/9828b35b-7c3d-4385-86ba-49e92a9cb6b9.jpg)
459 points by feb | 344 comments
Y Combinator YouTube video titled "The World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew," about a record-size electric plane's first flight.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/7/7/31165927-382c-4799-9bf5-4718bf97785d.jpg)
485 points by surprisetalk | 169 comments
A 1:17 YouTube video from First Class Amateur demonstrating a better knot for tying gym shorts or any drawstring.
631 points by javxfps | 356 comments
A security researcher's blog post describing a vulnerability that allowed leaking YouTube creators' private videos.
1272 points by nopg | 764 comments
Announcement about YouTube automatically detecting and labeling AI-generated videos for viewers and creators.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Making RAM at Home [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/4/22/b9519d3a-7df0-49af-bee5-6355301e2055.jpg)
571 points by kaipereira | 162 comments
YouTube video by Dr.Semiconductor, about 18 minutes long, documenting an attempt to fabricate RAM memory chips at home.
418 points by mrjaeger | 201 comments
New York Times article on a verdict finding Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction trial; the page loaded a captcha instead.
569 points by kilroy123 | 167 comments
Channel Surfer is a browser-based web app that presents your YouTube subscriptions as cable-TV-style channels, imported locally via a bookmarklet without accounts.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/3/3/d9cd2ddc-fc84-42c3-aa67-a76b81e21e70.jpg)
463 points by pcdavid | 77 comments
A YouTube video by Physics Girl, titled "My first science video in 3 years!", about Super-Kamiokande imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos.
606 points by walterbell | 315 comments
Cord Cutters News article reporting that the sci-fi TV series Babylon 5 is now available to watch free on YouTube.
399 points by geox | 307 comments
News article on a US trial where jurors heard claims that Meta and Google engineered addictive platforms; the page shows only a Cloudflare security check.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/1/30/6607b2df-fc14-4649-8ed3-7c37b29c3882.jpg)
369 points by UltraSane | 54 comments
A 1 hour 40 minute YouTube video from GearSkeptic about the engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage.
379 points by bookofjoe | 200 comments
Guardian news article reporting a German study finding Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical website for health queries.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/1/23/27993923-5a01-4c5a-bf85-b4cb88ce46f2.jpg)
432 points by codetheweb | 97 comments
YouTube video by Rootkid showing a self-built light installation that visualizes nearby radio wave activity.
999 points by ekianjo | 1529 comments
A YouTube video or livestream with live chat, shared as news that Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams has died.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/1/12/5feedd0e-a26b-4ef6-b1a7-11fbdf4ca896.jpg)
319 points by cjaackie | 320 comments
A 7-minute YouTube video by ZachAhern1 about playing against the surprisingly strong chess bot on Delta Air Lines' in-flight entertainment system.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/1/11/bfddf0fb-92ef-4362-81f0-c8d293f7be78.jpg)
419 points by imagiro | 68 comments
YouTube video by Mike Turitzin about building a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs).
![Screenshot of youtube.com: iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/12/11/6632e4a4-c90b-4278-84cd-b0b27192fc49.jpg)
581 points by walterbell | 382 comments
A YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi arguing that the iOS keyboard is broken and causes typos on iPhones.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/12/11/9cc0f80b-1d40-4bc7-a963-6412379a89c4.jpg)
412 points by gbugniot | 226 comments
YouTube video of Intermarché's 'Conte de Noël' Christmas advert from the French supermarket chain.
324 points by mystraline | 179 comments
Mastodon post by Fedi.Tips claiming YouTube uses AI to alter creators' videos without permission and recommending creators also post to PeerTube.
798 points by jaydenmilne | 522 comments
Blog follow-up claiming a joke prediction that YouTube's home page would shrink to showing very few videos has come true, with a chart of declining video counts.
1006 points by bertman | 591 comments
GitHub issue announcing that yt-dlp version 2025.11.12 requires an external JavaScript runtime such as Deno for full YouTube download support.
819 points by WaitWaitWha | 352 comments
It's FOSS News article reporting that YouTube removed tutorials on bypassing Windows 11 requirements, citing a 'risk of physical harm' policy.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/11/6/9399f5cb-686b-41fa-9bb1-44b2a2b10ade.jpg)
480 points by hnaccount_rng | 346 comments
A Technology Connections YouTube video arguing with evidence that dishwasher pods underperform compared to loose detergent use.
348 points by jjbinx007 | 318 comments
A Reddit r/DataHoarder thread about YouTube removing videos that show how to perform nonstandard Windows 11 installs; the page was blocked by Reddit's network policy.
1452 points by Brajeshwar | 535 comments
Ars Technica article on a lock company suing a popular YouTuber who showed its $130 lock being opened with a shim, and the backlash that followed.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/10/20/41ad08cb-c2b9-4d4f-b687-14f29a0ccefb.jpg)
574 points by thunderbong | 97 comments
AlphaPhoenix YouTube video filming a laser pointer beam at 2 billion frames per second to visualize light propagation.
545 points by surprisetalk | 99 comments
A bookofjoe blog post embedding NamibiaCam's YouTube live stream of a waterhole in the Namib Desert, showing ostriches and oryx.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/10/2/1c874749-8c5a-43ec-aedd-50ca90993f02.jpg)
412 points by ghuntley | 85 comments
YouTube video by sammyuri showing a ChatGPT-style language model built using Minecraft redstone circuitry.
1150 points by phewlink | 549 comments
A yt-dlp GitHub issue announcing that YouTube downloads will soon require the Deno JavaScript runtime to be installed.
495 points by Leftium | 216 comments
A Windows ReadMe newsletter post by Chris Hoffman recommending YouTube downloader tools and explaining how Google pressure keeps tech outlets from covering them.
403 points by iamflimflam1 | 736 comments
9to5Google article on YouTube responding to creators' lower view counts that appear to be caused by ad blockers interfering with view tracking.
338 points by geerlingguy | 432 comments
Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.
357 points by indigodaddy | 255 comments
GitHub repository for Nuclear, an open-source Electron desktop music player that streams music from free sources like YouTube.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/9/1/7a1f28b0-80d7-4112-b7e9-5d322158a2c2.jpg)
397 points by tosh | 72 comments
YouTube video of MIT professor Patrick Winston's 2018 lecture on how to speak and present effectively; the capture shows a reCAPTCHA page instead.
319 points by Brajeshwar | 472 comments
Reuters news article reporting that Australia has extended its under-16 social media ban to include YouTube, removing a previously planned exemption.
388 points by doener | 283 comments
Firefox add-on page for YouTube No Translation, an extension that keeps YouTube titles, descriptions and audio tracks in their original language.
851 points by smitop | 1169 comments
A blog post explaining YouTube's A/B-tested anti-adblock measures such as fake buffering, and a uBlock Origin filter written to partially avoid them.
1473 points by DavideNL | 636 comments
Jeff Geerling blog post about receiving a second YouTube community guidelines strike for a video demonstrating LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5 for 4K playback.
1293 points by jaydenmilne | 650 comments
A personal blog post complaining about YouTube's redesigned homepage layout, which shows only a few oversized video thumbnails per row.
710 points by udev4096 | 412 comments
Blog post describing how to block YouTube ads on Apple TV by using a man-in-the-middle proxy to decrypt traffic and strip ads from Protobuf responses.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/2/26/91fb3670-89e6-409e-9bb2-9c358a8004bb.jpg)
1270 points by franky47 | 331 comments
YouTube video from Michigan TypeScript showing DOOM running entirely within the TypeScript type system.
343 points by Tijdreiziger | 230 comments
Reddit post in r/VirtualYoutubers about YouTube phone verification overwriting a channel owner's personal info; the page shows a Reddit network-security block.
1548 points by brutecat | 439 comments
A security researcher's write-up of a vulnerability chain that exposed the email address of any YouTube channel owner, earning a $10,000 Google bug bounty.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/2/5/d1dce754-dd8b-497d-b370-32155265c282.jpg)
459 points by leroman | 34 comments
YouTube video by Andrej Karpathy giving a deep dive into how large language models like ChatGPT work.
616 points by shortformblog | 459 comments
Tedium article examining why Warner Bros. Discovery is uploading full-length old movies for free on YouTube.
628 points by m348e912 | 242 comments
A YouTube Short showing science YouTuber Dianna Cowern (Physics Girl) standing for the first time in two years during her illness recovery.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/1/16/f84143a2-d00b-4965-8873-82b7ad0ea605.jpg)
689 points by HelloUsername | 896 comments
YouTube video of Nintendo of America's first-look trailer announcing the Nintendo Switch 2 console.
649 points by DearNarwhal | 250 comments
Personal blog post arguing for replacing algorithmic feeds with RSS, with setup guides for YouTube, IGN, Hacker News, Reddit and other sources.
416 points by stafford_beer | 310 comments
Kevin Munger's Substack essay examining MrBeast and YouTube creator culture, from the author of The YouTube Apparatus.
753 points by talonx | 363 comments
A post on X by 3Blue1Brown about his YouTube video on Bitcoin being taken down as a copyright violation.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: This open problem taught me what topology is [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/12/25/de5f572f-325b-44ce-9e24-87e34c224125.jpg)
469 points by surprisetalk | 76 comments
A 3Blue1Brown YouTube video explaining topology through an open mathematical problem.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: What happened to the world's largest tube TV? [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/12/23/de5f0871-e7ea-4705-a1b7-883796d3ea1f.jpg)
639 points by ecliptik | 277 comments
A YouTube video by Shank Mods about tracking down and rescuing the Sony KX-45ED1, believed to be the world's largest tube TV.
1750 points by walz | 278 comments
Riley Walz's project showcasing about 5 million unedited YouTube videos with default IMG_XXXX filenames uploaded from iPhones between 2009 and 2012, shown in random order.
2166 points by bewal416 | 311 comments
Blog essay about the 2009–2012 iPhone "Send to YouTube" feature, which uploaded videos with default titles like IMG_0416.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/10/12/ff18c711-b079-46a2-90e2-f0467a5c5ed8.jpg)
842 points by Tomte | 171 comments
YouTube video from 3Blue1Brown in which Grant Sanderson demos how he animates videos using his Manim Python library, with Ben Sparks.
910 points by bo0tzz | 395 comments
New Mobility article on how the JerryRigEverything YouTubers are making affordable $1,000 wheelchairs while bypassing insurance and regulatory red tape.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: iPhone 16 Pro Storage Expansion 128GB to 1TB [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/9/23/8fae57c4-b4e6-4c2a-ae96-3302f36a2d95.jpg)
354 points by haunter | 219 comments
YouTube video from KingSener showing an iPhone 16 Pro's internal storage being upgraded from 128GB to 1TB.
422 points by sounds | 275 comments
Jeff Geerling's blog post about a company using an AI-cloned version of his voice without permission.
1996 points by babelfish | 1291 comments
Simon Willison blog post quoting and commenting on a leaked MrBeast production company onboarding PDF about making YouTube videos and team culture.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/9/19/d79bbfb4-2eaf-43a8-a861-6a021236aea1.jpg)
545 points by zdw | 105 comments
YouTube video by Robert Feranec showing extreme close-up footage of soldering electronic components.
652 points by Mackser | 371 comments
Blog post by Max Schmitt arguing that toast notifications are bad UX because they appear far from where the user's attention is, using YouTube as an example.
2553 points by hadisafa | 496 comments
A web app that presents YouTube videos as TV-style channels with a static-noise screen and a channel-flipping remote control.
534 points by anotherhue | 306 comments
Homepage of SponsorBlock, an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and API that skips sponsor segments and other categories in YouTube videos.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/8/13/9eb6333d-21fc-450a-a609-f430aa0da399.jpg)
554 points by fortran77 | 89 comments
YouTube video by Captain Disillusion debunking the viral David Beckham beach kicks clip and explaining the visual effects behind it.
570 points by grandmczeb | 288 comments
Tweet by Sundar Pichai announcing the death of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki after two years living with cancer.
457 points by ViktorRay | 230 comments
Financial Times article reporting that Google and Meta made a secret advertising deal to target teenagers, shown behind a subscription paywall.
333 points by surprisetalk | 207 comments
Frontend Masters blog post explaining that YouTube iframe embeds weigh about 1.3MB and how the lite-youtube web component cuts that to roughly 100KB.
335 points by pinakinathc | 312 comments
An Ask HN thread asking how YouTube covers the storage, encoding, and bandwidth costs of free video streaming, and whether ad revenue is enough.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: But what is a GPT? Visual intro to Transformers [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/4/2/71716e98-88ef-4714-9527-00dfc652e546.jpg)
387 points by huhhuh | 46 comments
A 3Blue1Brown YouTube video giving a visual introduction to GPT and the transformer architecture, chapter 5 of its deep learning series.