Stand-up Maths — Best Videos According to Hacker News

Stand-up Maths videos on HackerTube, ranked by how often Hacker News commenters recommended them. HN mostly shares this channel in threads about recreational & visual math, us politics & elections, probability & game theory and data science & statistics.

videos on HackerTube: 11
best all-time rank: #728
recommended on HN: 2016–2026

Most recommended Stand-up Maths videos

Each card shows the HN comment that sums it up best.

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How lucky is too lucky?: The Minecraft Speedrunning Dream Controversy Explained

Stand-up Maths

“It not only exposes the cheater, it also gives some intuition into negligible probabilities.”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

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Why is TV 29.97 frames per second?

Stand-up Maths

“definitely go and watch Matt Parker's legendary explanation of why NTSC runs at 29.97fps”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

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Does "land area" assume a country is perfectly flat?

Stand-up Maths

“Matt Parker from Standup Maths made a great video on exactly this subject”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

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MENACE: the pile of matchboxes which can learn

Stand-up Maths

“an amazing way to teach kids about this.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

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Stand-up comedy routine about Spreadsheets

Stand-up Maths

“you should probably see this Matt Parker video about excel being used in ways it shouldn't maybe?”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

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Do these scatter plots reveal fraudulent vote-switching in Michigan?

Stand-up Maths

“here's a video that debunks many of his claims”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

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Why do Biden's votes not follow Benford's Law?

Stand-up Maths

“Matt Parker did a good video with lots of visuals to explain why Benford's Law works in general, but why it cannot always be simply applied to election results.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024