MIT OpenCourseWare — Best Videos According to Hacker News
MIT OpenCourseWare videos on HackerTube, ranked by how often Hacker News commenters recommended them. HN mostly shares this channel in threads about university lectures & courses, functional programming, pure mathematics and macroeconomics & financial crises.
- videos on HackerTube
- 16
- best all-time rank
- #4
- recommended on HN
- 2010–2026
Most recommended MIT OpenCourseWare videos
Each card shows the HN comment that sums it up best.
lectureHow to Speak
MIT OpenCourseWare
“drop what you're doing and watch it now”
17 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
lectureLec 1 | MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005
MIT OpenCourseWare
“I highly recommend the MIT 18.06 open course on linear algebra - the lectures are first rate.”
11 HN recommenders · 2011–2020
lectureLecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp
MIT OpenCourseWare
“I watched and cannot recommend it enough, even for seasoned programmers”
10 HN recommenders · 2019–2026
lectureLecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986
MIT OpenCourseWare
“blew my mind and made me switch from being a UX designer dabbling in Rails to a full blown programmer.”
11 HN recommenders · 2012–2024
lecturePreface | MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus
MIT OpenCourseWare
“The way he explains things just clicked, after numerous failed attempts to learn from other sources.”
4 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
courseSes 1: Introduction and Course Overview
MIT OpenCourseWare
“The course is excellent.”
5 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
lectureLecture 19: Dynamic Programming I: Fibonacci, Shortest Paths
MIT OpenCourseWare
“Please watch this MIT intro”
4 HN recommenders · 2016–2021
courseLec 1 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008
MIT OpenCourseWare
“Professor keeps everything simple and direct because this class is designed for beginners with no or little programming experience.”
4 HN recommenders · 2010–2012
lecture17. Succinct Structures I
MIT OpenCourseWare
“Erik Demaine [1] gave two good lectures on succinct data structures [2] in the 2012 MIT 6.851 Advanced Data Structures course”
3 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
lecture1. Introduction, Finite Automata, Regular Expressions
MIT OpenCourseWare
“Sipser also has corresponding lectures that are available for free on YouTube here”
4 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
lecture26. Chernobyl — How It Happened
MIT OpenCourseWare
“This is a presentation to students by an MIT professor that goes over exactly what happened, the sequence of events, mistakes made, and so on.”
3 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
lectureLec 1 | MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2010
MIT OpenCourseWare
“the professor tells relatable stories to motivate the new concepts”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
lectureSpecial Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls
MIT OpenCourseWare
“the talk is that good!”
2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
lecture1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018
MIT OpenCourseWare
“I've been enjoying a playlist of blockchain lectures by Gary Gensler”
2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
lectureLecture 7A: Metacircular Evaluator, Part 1
MIT OpenCourseWare
“But mostly it just makes me happy - it's infectious and weird.”
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
lectureLecture 1B | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986
MIT OpenCourseWare
“I don't think it's possible to do any better than this”
1 HN recommenders · 2015–2017
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