Computerphile — Best Videos According to Hacker News

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The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile

Computerphile

“a must watch for developers just starting out with Timezones”

12 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

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Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea - Computerphile

Computerphile

“I love [this video]( ) from Tom Scott in which he explains quite well why e-voting is inherently bad.”

7 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

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JPEG DCT, Discrete Cosine Transform (JPEG Pt2)- Computerphile

Computerphile

“I finally understood DCT after watching”

6 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

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Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile

Computerphile

“a wonderful, terse, very informative video describing how utf-8 encoding works and why”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

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Cracking Enigma in 2021 - Computerphile

Computerphile

“would be a good place to start.”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

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3D Gaussian Splatting! - Computerphile

Computerphile

“Here's a much better explainer from some people who seem to actually understand the subject matter and not just the buzzwords”

3 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

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AI Language Models & Transformers - Computerphile

Computerphile

“You can check-out his other videos on NLP as well they are all excellent.”

3 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

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Deadly Truth of General AI? - Computerphile

Computerphile

“There's a great Computerphile video from 2015 that introduced me to the idea of AI safety awhile ago.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

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AI "Stop Button" Problem - Computerphile

Computerphile

“here’s an interesting video response to the “just unplug it” argument on the Compuerphile channel”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

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Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - Computerphile

Computerphile

“I found this video insightful on the matter from Computerphile”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

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The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile

Computerphile

“explained the brilliant and exiting history of this paper and its recreation, as well as the history of Phototypesetters.”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

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Chip & PIN Fraud Explained - Computerphile

Computerphile

“This is a good overview by some researchers in the different ways Chip and Pin can be hacked.”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2018

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Floating Point Numbers - Computerphile

Computerphile

“Tom Scott's fun and simple take on Floating Points is a good video explaining why such weird errors happen”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

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Glitch Tokens - Computerphile

Computerphile

“it's also a good introduction to the topic.”

2 HN recommenders · 2023

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Turing & The Halting Problem - Computerphile

Computerphile

“Here's a short video on it”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

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ChatGPT with Rob Miles - Computerphile

Computerphile

“This video[1] cleared up a lot of questions for me as to the issues I've seen with ChatGPT.”

4 HN recommenders · 2023

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Where GREP Came From - Computerphile

Computerphile

“My favourite BWK video is about grep.”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

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Ch(e)at GPT? - Computerphile

Computerphile

“a nice very approachable video explaining it here”

1 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

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Typesetters in the '80s - Computerphile

Computerphile

“explained the brilliant and exiting history of this paper and its recreation, as well as the history of Phototypesetters.”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

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Elliptic Curve Back Door - Computerphile

Computerphile

“He also gives a super cool/intuitive breakdown on how this came to be.”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2025