8-bit CPU control logic: Part 1
Ben Eater · 3 HN recommenders
Ben Eater writes a program in a made-up machine language and walks through the control logic an 8-bit breadboard CPU needs to execute it. It is part of his build-an-8-bit-computer series.
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3,553 videos with summaries and linked Hacker News recommendations, arranged by title.
8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities
Fall of Civilizations · 7 HN recommenders
Episode 8 of the Fall of Civilizations podcast, a roughly two and a half hour history of the Sumerians. It covers their mysterious origins, invention of writing and mathematics, great early cities and eventual collapse, with myths, proverbs and recreated music.
8/28/2006 Peter Schiff On Kudlow & Co: Predicts The US Economic Collapse
PhilDeCarolis · 3 HN recommenders
A 2006 television appearance in which Peter Schiff warns on Kudlow & Co about the housing bubble and an approaching US economic collapse.
8088 MPH by Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE
Jim Leonard · 3 HN recommenders
8088 MPH is a demoscene production for the original 1981 IBM PC with CGA graphics and a 4.77MHz 8088, shown with real composite output. It competed at Revision 2015 and pushes the hardware well past what it was thought capable of, breaking emulators.
[1147] Locksmith Says My Videos Are BS... Loses $75 (Maybe)
LockPickingLawyer · 2 HN recommenders
A LockPickingLawyer video in which a locksmith claims his videos are fake and challenges him; he responds by picking the lock. It is a short, typical LPL demonstration.
[1299] Unpickable Locks From Stuff Made Here
LockPickingLawyer · 5 HN recommenders
The Lock Picking Lawyer tests the supposedly unpickable lock designs built by the Stuff Made Here channel. He looks for bypasses and weaknesses in the novel anti-picking mechanisms.
[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models
Andrej Karpathy · 9 HN recommenders
Andrej Karpathy gives a one-hour general-audience introduction to large language models, covering what they are, how they are trained, comparisons to operating systems, and security challenges such as jailbreaks.
[4k, 60 fps] A Trip Through New York City in 1911
Denis Shiryaev · 2 HN recommenders
Footage shot in New York City in 1911 by a Swedish film company, upscaled to 4K and 60 fps with neural networks and optionally colorized. The creator notes the colors are artificial and added only for ambiance.
[4k, 60 fps] San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906
Denis Shiryaev · 3 HN recommenders
A neural-network upscaled 4K, 60 fps version of the 1906 film of a trip down Market Street in San Francisco, shot four days before the earthquake. It shows cable cars, horse carriages, early automobiles and pedestrians sharing the street.
[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902
Denis Shiryaev · 2 HN recommenders
Neural-network upscaled, 60 fps, stabilized and colorized version of 1902 footage of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspended railway in Germany. The source film comes from MoMA. It gives a vivid view of an early-1900s city and a train system that still runs.
[7] Jim Keller, Silicon Wizard 🧙♂️
TechTechPotato · 3 HN recommenders
Ian Cutress interviews chip architect Jim Keller about his time at AMD, Intel and elsewhere, management advice, design approach, Moore's Law and x86 versus Arm.
[AUDIO FIXED] The Truth Cannot be Sexist - Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences
Gravitahn · 6 HN recommenders
An excerpt of the 2005 Harvard debate in which Steven Pinker gives his prepared case on biological sex differences and the under-representation of women in science. It covers cross-cultural patterns in preferences and abilities and the overlap between male and female distributions.
[CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla
WAD at CVPR · 4 HN recommenders
Andrej Karpathy, then Tesla's head of AI, gives a CVPR 2021 workshop keynote on how Autopilot's neural networks work. A large part covers the move to a vision-only stack, including why radar was dropped and how vision produces depth estimates.
[Epilepsy Warning] Choco Mountain: The History of Mario Kart 64's Most Infamous Track
Summoning Salt · 3 HN recommenders
Summoning Salt traces the speedrunning history of Mario Kart 64's Choco Mountain track and its famous shortcut, through the successive record holders and discoveries. It carries an epilepsy warning for flickering lights.
[EPILEPSY WARNING] How fast should an unoptimized terminal run?
Molly Rocket · 6 HN recommenders
Casey Muratori shows how fast a terminal renderer can run, building a simple reference renderer that handles Unicode and colored text far quicker than Windows Terminal. He argues that common excuses for slow terminals do not hold up.
[Highlight] StarCraft Remastered Rant
Day9TV · 2 HN recommenders
Day9 gives a passionate first look at what his StarCraft: Brood War Remastered series will teach. He argues Brood War is primarily a real-time game and only secondarily a strategy game, making the commander fantasy a matter of mechanics.
[HOPE X] Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse
themarimbaincident · 4 HN recommenders
A HOPE X talk giving an in-depth explanation of how elevators work, from their history in hacker culture to using their control systems to bypass building security. It covers features and abilities of elevators that most people never see.
[JSConfUS 2013] Steven Wittens: Making WebGL Dance
JSConf · 5 HN recommenders
Steven Wittens' JSConf US 2013 talk on drawing with WebGL, using animated visuals to walk through vectors, matrices and the rendering pipeline. Despite the title, it works as a visual primer on the linear algebra behind 3D graphics.
[Linux.conf.au 2013] - Git For Ages 4 And Up
HackersOnBoard · 8 HN recommenders
A Linux.conf.au 2013 talk that explains git's internal model using a playful, toy-based approach. It presents git operations as operations on a graph of commits, aimed at people who find git confusing.
[Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X
HackersOnBoard · 2 HN recommenders
A linux.conf.au 2013 talk by a Wayland developer who previously worked on X, telling the history of X and why Wayland was created. It covers X's hardware abstraction and architecture and why they became problematic for modern graphics.
[LIVE] How to Achieve Proper Grounding - Rick Hartley - Expert Live Training (US)
Altium · 9 HN recommenders
Rick Hartley gives a roughly two-hour live training on proper grounding in PCB design. He explains how energy actually flows in the space between conductors, and how that governs noise, EMI, return paths and signal reflections.
[TAS] Pokémon Yellow - Arbitrary Code Execution
MrWint · 4 HN recommenders
A tool-assisted speedrun of Pokemon Yellow by MrWint that uses arbitrary code execution to push Game Boy hardware to its limits. Through crafted inputs it injects code and ends up running other programs, such as Tetris, inside the game.
A 10x faster TypeScript
Microsoft Developer · 2 HN recommenders
Anders Hejlsberg introduces the native port of the TypeScript compiler, written in Go, which promises roughly 10x faster tooling. He demos compiling VS Code and explains where the speedup comes from.
A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt
Enthought · 15 HN recommenders
SciPy 2015 talk by Nathaniel Smith and Stefan van der Walt on choosing a new default colormap for Matplotlib. It covers why Jet misleads, how perceptual color spaces work, and how viridis was designed.
a better way to count
jan Misali · 3 HN recommenders
jan Misali presents an humorous but earnest case for counting in base 6 (seximal) instead of base 10 or 12, comparing the arithmetic advantages of each.
A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean Carroll
The Royal Institution · 5 HN recommenders
Sean Carroll gives a Royal Institution talk tracing the history of quantum mechanics from Einstein and Bohr to today. He covers the Copenhagen interpretation and the many worlds interpretation.
A Complete Beginner's Guide to Electric Vehicles
Technology Connections · 3 HN recommenders
Technology Connections' hour-long guide to electric vehicles, covering costs, trade-offs and especially how little home charging power most drivers need.
A COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop? - Framework Laptop Review
Linus Tech Tips · 2 HN recommenders
Linus Tech Tips reviews the first Framework Laptop, a fully repairable and upgradeable machine. The reviewer expected a flimsy chunky device and was happily surprised.
A CONSERVATIVE solution to global warming (Part 1)
potholer54 · 3 HN recommenders
Potholer54 presents the climate science case and a market-oriented, conservative-friendly approach to addressing global warming, with sources listed. It is part one of a two-part series.
A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952)
Manufacturing Intellect · 2 HN recommenders
A 1952 filmed interview in which Romney Wheeler talks with philosopher Bertrand Russell at his home in Surrey. Russell discusses his outlook and reflects on how the world changed over the first half of the century.
A conversation with Elon Musk about Starship
Everyday Astronaut · 3 HN recommenders
Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut talks with Elon Musk right after Musk's 2019 Starship presentation. Musk discusses Starship's design, why SpaceX favors conventional engines over aerospikes, and how deleting parts and processes speeds up development.
A Conversation with Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson - Institute of Politics
Harvard University · 2 HN recommenders
A 2012 Harvard Institute of Politics conversation between Peter Thiel and historian Niall Ferguson. Thiel discusses technology, politics and his stagnation hypothesis.
A Conversation with Stewart Brand (Devcon4)
Ethereum Foundation · 2 HN recommenders
A panel conversation with Stewart Brand at Ethereum's Devcon4, where he recounts his life and work 'hacking civilization' and discusses the role of institutions in decentralization.
A Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click
Devoxx · 3 HN recommenders
Cliff Click walks through a small performance example on a modern out-of-order CPU. He covers pipelining, ILP, CISC vs RISC, multicore, and why cache misses and the memory subsystem dominate performance.
A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning. (2011)
Corning Incorporated · 2 HN recommenders
Corning's 2011 concept video showing a future where specialty glass surfaces and touchscreens are woven into everyday life.
A Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry
SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering · 7 HN recommenders
Brian Karis's SIGGRAPH 2021 talk explains how Unreal Engine 5's Nanite virtualized geometry works. It covers mesh import, the data structures, streaming, decompression, culling, software and hardware rasterization, and shading.
A Hackers' Guide to Language Models
Jeremy Howard · 8 HN recommenders
Jeremy Howard's 90-minute practical tour of language models. It covers how they work, GPT-4's capabilities and limits, using the OpenAI API, code writing, data analysis and fine-tuning.
A JVM Does That?
Google TechTalks · 4 HN recommenders
Cliff Click of Azul Systems asks what a JVM is supposed to do, in a Google Tech Talk from 2011. He covers the services a JVM provides, such as garbage collection and compilation, and the messy reality beneath the abstractions.
A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries
Simon Roper · 3 HN recommenders
Linguist Simon Roper reconstructs how a London accent would have sounded from the 14th to the 21st centuries, reading passages in period pronunciation. It draws on the Cambridge History of the English Language.
A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable
Adam Savage’s Tested · 6 HN recommenders
Adam Savage and engineer Zach Radding examine Lumafield CT scans of Apple's $130 Thunderbolt 4 cable alongside cheaper USB-C cables. They explain the internal components that distinguish Thunderbolt from ordinary USB-C.
A man asked AI for health advice and it cooked every brain cell
Chubbyemu · 2 HN recommenders
Chubbyemu presents a case study of a man who followed AI health advice, replaced salt with sodium bromide and developed bromism with severe neurological effects. It is told as a dramatized medical case by a doctor.
A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip
Tom Scott · 3 HN recommenders
Tom Scott makes the difference between a million and a billion dollars tangible by using distance on a road trip instead of volume. The drive makes the scale of a billion intuitively felt.
A Mind Is Born (256 bytes)
lftkryo · 8 HN recommenders
A Commodore 64 demo by Linus Akesson that fits video and music into 256 bytes, winning the Oldskool 4K Intro compo at Revision 2017. A technical write-up accompanies it.
A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick
bsdconferences · 3 HN recommenders
Kirk McKusick gives a narrative history of BSD from its start at UC Berkeley in the late 1970s through the 1980s releases and the lawsuit that led to 4.4BSD-Lite in 1992. It is full of anecdotes from a key developer.
A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should work
Matthaeus Krenn · 4 HN recommenders
Matthaeus Krenn presents a concept for car touchscreen UI where the screen controls only one thing at a time, designed to suit driving. A tablet prototype accompanies the short demo.
A New History for Humanity – The Human Era
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · 3 HN recommenders
Kurzgesagt explains the Holocene or Human Era calendar, which adds 10,000 years to the current year to anchor dates to the start of human civilization. It argues this gives a more sensible frame for human history.
A NEW Trace! The FULL MH370 Story, so Far..
Mentour Pilot · 5 HN recommenders
Mentour Pilot's 56-minute account of the MH370 disappearance and what is now known, including the WSPR radio tracking technique and other sensing methods. It was made ahead of renewed search efforts.
A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion
Real Engineering · 5 HN recommenders
Real Engineering's Brian McManus explains Helion's approach to nuclear fusion: colliding two plasma rings, compressing them magnetically, and capturing energy directly from the changing magnetic flux rather than boiling water. It covers why this pulsed design sidesteps problems of tokamaks and laser fusion.
A New Way to look at Networking
Google · 6 HN recommenders
Van Jacobson's 2006 Google Tech Talk argues that networking should be rethought around named data rather than host-to-host conversations. He contrasts the circuit and datagram views of the internet and sketches content-centric networking as a replacement for the location-centric TCP/IP model.
A New Way to look at Networking
GoogleTalksArchive · 4 HN recommenders
Van Jacobson's 2006 Google Tech Talk on rethinking networking around named content instead of host-to-host conversations. He recounts packet-networking history and lays out the content-centric networking idea that later became NDN.
A New Way to look at Networking
Google TechTalks · 3 HN recommenders
Van Jacobson's 2006 Google Tech Talk argues for rethinking networking around named data rather than host-to-host connections. He gives the history and the unsolved problems of the current internet architecture.
A new way to visualize General Relativity
ScienceClic English · 8 HN recommenders
ScienceClic explains why the rubber sheet analogy for general relativity is misleading and offers a new visualization that includes the curvature of time and shows gravity as motion through curved spacetime.
A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
Talks at Google · 11 HN recommenders
John Ousterhout, Stanford professor and creator of Tcl, presents the ideas of his book A Philosophy of Software Design in a Talks at Google session. He covers managing complexity, deep modules and interfaces, and what he teaches in his Stanford software design course.
A Physics Professor Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong
Veritasium · 3 HN recommenders
Veritasium recounts a $10,000 bet with a UCLA physics professor over whether a vehicle can travel downwind faster than the wind. He presents the professor's reasoning and demonstrations, including one without aerodynamics.
A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look
Eric Weinstein · 3 HN recommenders
Eric Weinstein's roughly three-hour presentation of Geometric Unity, his proposed theory unifying physics, given as a special episode of The Portal. It includes clarifications at the end.
A Possible Future of Software Development
Google TechTalks · 2 HN recommenders
Sean Parent of Adobe argues that object-oriented frameworks ultimately fail to deliver scalable, high quality software and proposes combining generic and declarative programming instead. It draws on Stepanov's Elements of Programming.
A quick tour of TeXmacs
TeXmacs Videos · 3 HN recommenders
A four-minute tour of the TeXmacs scientific editor, showing math typing, figures, citations, a drawing tool, document styles, HTML export, presentations and animations.
A real person, a lot like you
Derek Sivers · 3 HN recommenders
A three-minute video from Derek Sivers, based on his book Anything You Want, about remembering that the people you deal with online are real people. It contrasts how we treat people face to face with how we treat them online.
A reality check on renewables - David MacKay
TED-Ed · 3 HN recommenders
David MacKay's TEDxWarwick talk uses basic arithmetic to show how much land and energy renewables would need to power a country like the UK. It explains the limits of sustainable options and why they should still be pursued.
A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · 4 HN recommenders
Kurzgesagt makes a selfish case for improving the world, arguing that helping people far away raises prosperity and innovation for everyone, including yourself. The animated video frames this as egoistic altruism and positive-sum cooperation.