Making logic gates from transistors
Ben Eater · 2 HN recommenders
Ben Eater shows how to build logic gates out of transistors, including NOR gates. It is part of his clear hardware-from-scratch teaching style.
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Making Metagun
Nizzotch · 2 HN recommenders
A timelapse of Notch (Markus Persson) making Metagun, a game built from scratch in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 18. It shows the whole coding session sped up.
Making Mushroom Ketchup - 18th Century Cooking
Townsends · 2 HN recommenders
The Townsends channel shows how to make mushroom ketchup, a popular 18th-century sauce, in period style. It includes the history and a recipe and links to a blog post on whether George Washington used ketchup.
Making of "The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
Jim Pavloff · 5 HN recommenders
Jim Pavloff rebuilds the Prodigy track Smack My Bitch Up in Ableton, identifying the samples used and recreating the track by hand.
Making of "The Prodigy - Voodoo People" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
Jim Pavloff · 3 HN recommenders
Jim Pavloff rebuilds The Prodigy's 'Voodoo People' in Ableton from its listed samples. The video shows how the track is assembled and how close a handmade reconstruction can sound.
Making of Second Reality / Future Crew
Mika Tuomi · 2 HN recommenders
Home video from 1993 showing Future Crew members at Mika Tuomi's home finishing the PC demo Second Reality shortly before release.
Making R run Fast - Jan Vitek
John O'Neill · 3 HN recommenders
Jan Vitek of Northeastern University gives a meetup talk on the challenges of making the R language run fast. He explains what in R's semantics makes it hard to optimize and to build a JIT compiler for.
Making Sense of VRChat, the "Metaverse" People Actually Like
People Make Games · 2 HN recommenders
People Make Games explores VRChat, the social virtual world that many consider the metaverse people actually like, interviewing users and covering its communities and uncertain future.
MAKRO | XLOOKUP: META BREAKER? | Microsoft Excel Stream Highlights 10/19
KRAZAM · 2 HN recommenders
KRAZAM parody sketch in which an Excel streamer, Makro, treats the XLOOKUP function as a game-breaking meta change, spoofing e-sports commentary.
Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary)
Happen Films · 4 HN recommenders
Fools & Dreamers is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve in New Zealand, where botanist Hugh Wilson let gorse grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate native forest. It shows the results after 30 years and the local skepticism he faced.
Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213
SmarterEveryDay · 2 HN recommenders
Part 1 of Smarter Every Day's three-part series on manipulating the YouTube algorithm. It features Renee DiResta and examples of how social media platforms can be manipulated.
Manufactured Discontent and Fortnite
Folding Ideas · 6 HN recommenders
Dan Olson of Folding Ideas critiques Fortnite's monetization, arguing it uses manufactured discontent, such as shop design and skins, to push spending. The video dissects the psychological techniques behind the game's business model.
Marble Marcher - A Fractal Physics Game
CodeParade · 2 HN recommenders
A demo of Marble Marcher, a game using a fractal physics engine and fully procedural ray-marched rendering. The player rolls a marble through shifting fractal levels.
Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4
Marc Levoy · 5 HN recommenders
The first lecture in an 18-part series on digital photography from Marc Levoy's Stanford CS 178 course, recorded at Google in 2016. The series covers how digital cameras work and computational photography, with slides and assignments available on the course site.
Marco Baringer's SLIME Tutorial Video
손주일 (Cecil) · 2 HN recommenders
Marco Baringer's tutorial video on SLIME, the Emacs mode for developing Common Lisp. It demonstrates the interactive workflow of working against a live Lisp image.
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal
Michael Sugrue · 4 HN recommenders
Michael Sugrue's lecture on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and the Stoic ideal, covering the text and its philosophy. It is one of his humanities lectures known for their clarity.
Margin Call (2011) - Senior Partners Emergency Meeting [HD 1080p] (Re-Upload / Audio Fixed)
Extractor · 5 HN recommenders
A clip from the 2011 film Margin Call in which senior partners hold an emergency meeting and decide to sell off toxic assets immediately. It is set at the start of the 2008 financial crisis.
Margin Call (9/9) Movie CLIP - It's Just Money (2011) HD
Movieclips · 4 HN recommenders
A clip from the 2011 film Margin Call in which a firm's CEO, played by Jeremy Irons, tells a senior executive about the cycles of financial crashes. Kevin Spacey's character says he wants out, and the scene ends on the line that it is just money.
MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games
SethBling · 10 HN recommenders
SethBling shows MarI/O, a program using neural networks and the NEAT genetic algorithm to learn to play Super Mario World. The description links the source code, the paper and background reading.
Mark Blyth - A Brief History of How We Got Here and Why
McMaster Humanities · 2 HN recommenders
Political economist Mark Blyth gives a lecture tracing two versions of capitalist 'software': the postwar Great Compression era and the neoliberal era from 1980 to 2008. He explains the bug that crashed the first and the design of the second.
Mark Blyth ─ Global Trumpism
Watson School of International and Public Affairs · 3 HN recommenders
Mark Blyth's 2016 Brown University lecture on global Trumpism, explaining the rise of populism through economics, the decline of Western middle classes and revolt against technocracy.
Mark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [JSConf2014]
JSConf · 4 HN recommenders
A JSConf 2014 talk visually breaking down algorithms behind everyday UI patterns, such as dropdown menus that vanish when the mouse drifts and picking the nearest target to the cursor. It shows how these are implemented in JavaScript.
Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398
Lex Fridman · 3 HN recommenders
Lex Fridman interviews Mark Zuckerberg in the metaverse, with both appearing as photorealistic avatars from separate locations. They discuss Meta's AI, VR and the future of avatars.
Mars DOS demo by Tim Clarke (1993)
Sean Barrett · 2 HN recommenders
A one-minute capture of Tim Clarke's 1993 'Mars' DOS demo, a roughly 5 KB program that renders a navigable terrain landscape in real time.
Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)
Veritasium · 10 HN recommenders
Veritasium's Derek Muller visits NASA JPL to see the Mars helicopter Ingenuity before it was mounted on the rover. He explains how it can fly in Mars's thin atmosphere with large, fast-spinning contra-rotating rotors and low mass, and covers power and cold.
Marty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart
Pierce College District WA · 6 HN recommenders
Psychology professor Marty Lobdell gives a one-hour lecture on how to study effectively, covering short focused sessions with breaks, study environment, note-taking and memory techniques. It was aimed at students who cram without improving.
Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn
TED · 4 HN recommenders
Luis von Ahn, creator of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, explains how small contributions from many people online can digitize books. He then introduces Duolingo as a way to translate the web while people learn languages.
Master Your Sleep & Be More Alert When Awake
Andrew Huberman · 7 HN recommenders
Andrew Huberman's podcast episode on what makes us sleepy, helps us sleep soundly and keeps us alert. It lays out the science and a set of behavioral tools such as light timing.
Mastering the Vim Language
thoughtbot · 5 HN recommenders
Chris Toomey of thoughtbot explains Vim as a language of commands, motions and text objects that combine into precise edits. He shows how to master the built-in pieces and extend them.
Math Encounters -- Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling -- Colin Wright (Presentation)
National Museum of Mathematics · 3 HN recommenders
Mathematician Colin Wright demonstrates juggling and explains the mathematics of juggling patterns, including notation that led to new throwing patterns. It is a public presentation at the Museum of Mathematics aimed at a general audience.
Math Magic
Vsauce · 2 HN recommenders
Vsauce explores math through card tricks and big numbers, including an animation of how enormous 52 factorial, the number of deck orderings, really is.
Math's Fundamental Flaw
Veritasium · 7 HN recommenders
Veritasium's explainer on Godel's incompleteness theorems and the limits of mathematical proof, tracing set theory, Hilbert's program and the road to Turing and modern computing.
Matrix 2.0 — How we're making Matrix go voom!
Matrixdotorg · 2 HN recommenders
A FOSDEM 2023 talk from the Matrix team on Matrix 2.0, covering sliding sync, the Element X client rewrite and next-generation calling. It explains how Matrix aims to match the speed of proprietary messengers.
Matsuoka Shuzo [松岡修造 ] - あきらめかけているあなた (NEVER GIVE UP!!) [English]
Ryuujin131 · 2 HN recommenders
A short English-subtitled clip of Shuzo Matsuoka, a retired Japanese tennis player turned motivational speaker, delivering a never-give-up pep talk. It is a well-known Japanese internet meme.
Matt Might - Winning the War on Error Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer
Curry On! · 3 HN recommenders
Matt Might's Curry On talk on ending errors in code, both software and the human genome. He covers conservative approximation of the halting problem via static analysis and a computational approach to precision medicine.
Matter to Mind:Bioelectricity, Body Intelligence, Future of Regenerative Medicine- Dr. Michael Levin
Harvard Extension Student Psychological Club · 2 HN recommenders
Developmental and synthetic biologist Michael Levin speaks at a Harvard Extension student event on bioelectricity, body intelligence and regenerative medicine. He discusses how cell electrical networks guide growth and form.
Max Headroom 20 minutes into the future 1985
Kevin Galvayne · 2 HN recommenders
The 1985 Channel 4 TV film 'Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future', the origin of the computer-generated TV host Max Headroom, with a soundtrack by Midge Ure and Chris Cross.
Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371
Lex Fridman · 2 HN recommenders
Lex Fridman interviews MIT physicist Max Tegmark, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, about the case for pausing giant AI experiments and the risks of advanced AI.
Maximizing Productivity, Physical & Mental Health with Daily Tools
Andrew Huberman · 3 HN recommenders
A long Huberman Lab episode laying out science-based daily tools for focus, sleep, exercise and mental and physical health, organized around a 24-hour day.
May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications
Road Less Marveled · 9 HN recommenders
Seven-minute footage of Fred Rogers testifying before a US Senate subcommittee in 1969 to defend federal funding for the new Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A skeptical Senator Pastore starts out abrasive and is won over during Rogers' brief, calm testimony.
Maybe Not - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV · 14 HN recommenders
Rich Hickey's Clojure/Conj 2018 keynote argues that Maybe/Option types and rigid type signatures are a poor way to model data that changes over time. He builds the case around optionality, schema growth and compatibility, and presents the ideas behind Clojure spec as an alternative.
MC Frontalot - It Is Pitch Dark
MC Frontalot · 5 HN recommenders
MC Frontalot's nerdcore rap about the text adventure Zork, made for Jason Scott's Get Lamp documentary and featuring a cameo by Steve Meretzky. It was filmed over an evening in a basement.
McMurtry Speirling BREAKS Goodwood Hillclimb Record!! 39.08!
Automotive Mike · 3 HN recommenders
Coverage of the McMurtry Speirling fan car breaking the Goodwood hillclimb record with a 39.08 second run driven by Max Chilton. It beat the Volkswagen ID.R and the 1999 McLaren time.
Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right
Google TechTalks · 3 HN recommenders
A Google Tech Talk by Sebastian Deterding on gamification. It looks at what points and badges get wrong and what lessons game design offers for non-game applications.
Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers
Excelsior10000 · 13 HN recommenders
A 1953 US Navy training film explaining the basic mechanisms in mechanical fire control computers aboard ships. It shows how gears, differentials and cams solved mathematical problems in permanent mechanical form.
Meeting my hero! Sailing legend Sven Yrvind
Sam Holmes Sailing · 3 HN recommenders
Sam Holmes Sailing visits sailing legend Sven Yrvind and tours his boat, covering the man and his small-boat design philosophy.
MEETING THE ENEMY A feminist comes to terms with the Men's Rights movement | Cassie Jaye | TEDxMarin
TEDx Talks · 4 HN recommenders
Documentary filmmaker Cassie Jaye explains how making The Red Pill led her, a feminist, to reevaluate her assumptions about the Men's Rights movement. She argues for listening to people you think of as the enemy.
Megaprocessor Tour 1 - (fixed audio)
Megaprocessor · 2 HN recommenders
A short tour of the Megaprocessor, a microprocessor built at enormous scale from tens of thousands of discrete transistors. The builder shows what the machine is made of and where it now lives, at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, where visitors can play Tetris on it.
Melt your circuit boards
mitxela · 2 HN recommenders
mitxela shows his KiCad plugin that rounds PCB tracks to give circuit boards organic, melted-looking layouts instead of rigid geometric ones.
MENACE: the pile of matchboxes which can learn
Stand-up Maths · 2 HN recommenders
Matt Parker of Stand-up Maths demonstrates MENACE, Donald Michie's 1961 machine made of matchboxes that learns to play noughts and crosses through reinforcement. He builds and trains a physical version.
Michael Bay - What is Bayhem?
Every Frame a Painting · 3 HN recommenders
An Every Frame a Painting video essay on Michael Bay's style, 'Bayhem', covering his camera movement, composition, color and editing. It argues that even if you dislike his films, they teach something about visual perception.
Michael Jordan "Failure" Nike Commercial
JayMJ23 · 2 HN recommenders
A Nike commercial in which Michael Jordan lists the shots he missed and games he lost, saying that repeated failure is the reason he succeeds.
Michael Levin: Anatomical decision-making by cellular collectives
Thomas Ouldridge · 3 HN recommenders
Michael Levin presents his lab's work on how cellular collectives use bioelectric networks to make anatomical decisions. Topics include pattern memories, regeneration and synthetic living organisms.
Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman Podcast #325
Lex Fridman · 3 HN recommenders
Lex Fridman talks with Tufts biologist Michael Levin about bioelectricity, embryogenesis, xenobots and how cells collectively pursue goals. They range into cognition, evolution and the possibility of aliens.
Michael Levin: Consciousness, Biology, Universal Mind, Emergence, Cancer Research
Curt Jaimungal · 3 HN recommenders
Curt Jaimungal interviews biologist Michael Levin of Tufts about consciousness, bioelectricity, emergence, and cancer research. The conversation challenges reductionist views of life.
Michael Levin: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | TED
TED · 7 HN recommenders
Biologist Michael Levin explains the bioelectric layer that coordinates cells to build organs and bodies, showing footage of two-headed worms and introducing xenobots. He discusses implications for medicine and the nature of life.
Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | A Film by Jeff Gibbs | Full Documentary
Michael Moore · 7 HN recommenders
Planet of the Humans, a full documentary by Jeff Gibbs presented by Michael Moore, arguing that the green movement has been co-opted by corporate and wealthy interests and that techno-fixes are not enough.
Michael Seibel - Building Product
Y Combinator · 3 HN recommenders
Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel lectures at Startup School on building a product people want: identifying the problem, the customer, an MVP and which customers to pursue first.
Michael Stonebraker | Big Data is (at least) Four Different Problems
Michigan Engineering · 5 HN recommenders
Database pioneer Michael Stonebraker argues that 'big data' is really at least four different problems: big volumes with small analytics, big analytics, velocity, and variety. He comments on where each market is heading.
Micro Men - 10th Anniversary - With Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser
The Centre for Computing History · 2 HN recommenders
The Centre for Computing History reunites Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser to rewatch the BBC drama Micro Men on its tenth anniversary. They reminisce about Acorn and the early British home computer era.