suckerpinch — Best Videos According to Hacker News

talk

Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!

suckerpinch

“are a must watch.”

12 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

demo

Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need

suckerpinch

“recommend this video to anyone here.”

12 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

demo

Computer program that learns to play classic NES games

suckerpinch

“Watch the whole thing, it's delightful.”

9 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk

Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper

suckerpinch

“His video about the printable x86[1] is my favorite engineering video of all time.”

8 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

demo

NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS

suckerpinch

“Suckerpinch barely ever releases a video, but when he does they are great.”

7 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

explainer

30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World

suckerpinch

“if you like this kind of thing, you'll love Elo World.”

8 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

comedy

Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]

suckerpinch

“it just keeps getting better and better as the video progresses. I laughed so hard.”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

explainer

Anagrams, but where you can break apart letters: "Anagraphs"

suckerpinch

“Definitely give it a watch.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

comedy

SIGBOVIK 2007: Generalized Super Mario Bros. is NP-Complete

suckerpinch

“This guy is a genius and also freakin hilarious”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2021

talk

Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)

suckerpinch

“this fun experiment in Typesetting which starts off with the amazing TeX origin story”

4 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

explainer

GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines

suckerpinch

“A fun example of that (making a neural network using floating point error as a source of non-linearity)”

1 HN recommenders · 2023–2024