Tech Industry & Business Models Videos Hacker News Recommends

explainer#92

YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.

Tom Scott

“Tom Scott explains the situation and the solution best.”

13 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#100

Winners Take All | Anand Giridharadas | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

“I strongly encourage everyone - especialy anyone employed at Google - to watch it.”

9 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

explainer#165

The Problem With Facebook

2veritasium

“before you waste any money, watch these two videos”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2018

commentary#293

VidMe or Why Platforms Aren't Your Friends

Folding Ideas

“Folding Ideas (on YouTube) had a solid video about VidMe, which is a case study in how NOT to do this”

8 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

commentary#314

Sinclair Broadcast Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight

“Highly recommend.”

10 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

documentary#358

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

Folding Ideas

“probably the most detailed and incisive critique of cryptocurrency and NFTs that I've seen”

12 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

commentary#415

Net Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight

“John Oliver did a much better job (and funnier, btw)”

7 HN recommenders · 2014–2017

talk#457

All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles

All-In Podcast

“I strongly encourage watching Bill Gurley's talk from the All-In Summit”

5 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

lecture#524

Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5)

Y Combinator

“this talk from YC's Startup School 2014 covering the ideas from Zero to One is excellent”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

podcast#545

Joe Rogan Experience #1258 - Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde & Tim Pool

PowerfulJRE

“provided a lot of insight into how Twitter thought about moderation. It was a lot more nuanced than I expected.”

6 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

documentary#931

Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers

People Make Games

“has a couple of reports that I'd suggest parents consider watching first before going down that road”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

talk#953

re:publica 2015 - Aral Balkan: Beyond The Camera Panopticon

re:publica

“All in all, this is a great talk, I highly recommend you watch from start.”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

explainer#1135

This is why we can't have nice things

Veritasium

“Veritasium made a video that reviews the history and presents the topic in an engaging way.”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#1296

How technology loses out in companies, countries & continents and what to do about it

bert hubert

“this excellent video talks about the problems with outsourcing everything”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

explainer#1370

Why SpaceX is Making Starlink

Real Engineering

“the whole video is worth watching”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

commentary#1497

Epic v Apple: Judgment Day - Who Won? Who Lost? ...and Why? (VL538)

Hoeg Law

“I'd suggest watching the excellent video by Hoeg Law.”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

talk#1513

Maciej Ceglowski - Barely succeed! It's easier!

webdirections

“Which I thought was amazing and inspiring.”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

talk#1567

1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality

GDC Festival of Gaming

“They procedurally generated 1,500+ different iterations on top of the same Unity-based slots shovelware using noun/adjective pairs.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

explainer#1749

How Airlines Quietly Became Banks

Wendover Productions

“Wendover Productions had a good video about this, framed around United getting a loan during the pandemic”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

documentary#1763

Why The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips

CNBC

“Good video on ASML and semiconductor fabrication equipment in general”

4 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

talk#1822

DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow

DEFCONConference

“I really recommend Cory's talk at DEF CON”

4 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

talk#1928

Susan Crawford on Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

“It goes over the telecom industry, how it's not competitive and the current day incentives/problems.”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2014

talk#1960

The Boring Company Information Session

The Boring Company

“It's worth watching to see what they are proposing.”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2019

explainer#1982

The UK's Failed Experiment in Rail Privatization

Wendover Productions

“the people on the Wendover YouTube channel did a video on this back in March which explained the issue really well.”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

commentary#2190

Why Spotify Will Ultimately Fail

Benn Jordan

“I find this artist's explanation of the situation helpful”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

commentary#2258

Intel - Anti-Competitive, Anti-Consumer, Anti-Technology.

AdoredTV

“This is a very good overview of bad anti-consumer practices Intel has done throughout the last 30 years”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

commentary#2395

Why Doing Taxes Is So Hard | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix

Netflix Is A Joke

“There's a very good Patriot Act episode [1] regarding devious patterns in the US tax industry.”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

lecture#2410

Disruptive Innovation - Clayton Christensen (Part 2)

modplanman

“Here's part of a great talk from Christensen describing the same logic but in the Steel industry”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2017

talk#2490

Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Fortune Debate, 2012

kykeon

“One of the most interesting debates was between Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel back in 2012”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2020

explainer#2669

The Great Stranding: How Inaccurate Mainstream LCOE Estimates are Creating a Trillion-Dollar Bubble

RethinkX

“Eye-opening video”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

interview#2752

Thiel: Google has $50B, doesn't innovate

CNN

“I strongly encourage you to watch the 4 min clip.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

commentary#2757

DEBUNKING STARLINK

Common Sense Skeptic

“watching Common Sense Skeptic’s video, which I recommend”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

commentary#2877

Amazon Sells Fake Electrical Fuses

Louis Rossmann

“This video gives a good overview of how Amazon's NGAF attitude about safety needs to be reigned in.”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

interview#2879

Billion Dollar Bully: Yelp documentary producers Kaylie Milliken & Mellissa Wood

Louis Rossmann

“he talks with two of the people behind the movie Billion Dollar Bully.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

explainer#2883

Blue Bubbles vs Green Bubbles: Explained!

Marques Brownlee

“Marques Brownlee has a video[0] that discusses the technical, commercial, and social aspects.”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

explainer#2933

Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)

Technology Connections

“Here's a very good video going into details”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

talk#2945

The $8 billion iPod | Rob Reid

TED

“Rob Reid did a funny 5min TED Talk on this”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

music#2963

Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales

TheRichterScales

“in case anyone missed this gem.”

3 HN recommenders · 2009–2026

talk#3076

Corporate Open Source Anti-patterns

Bryan Cantrill

“Bryan Cantrill had an insightful talk "Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

commentary#3079

Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight

“There is a very nice episode of Last Week Tonight by John Oliver diving into it”

2 HN recommenders · 2024

explainer#3142

Games Should Not Cost $60 Anymore - Inflation, Microtransactions, and Publishing - Extra Credits

Extra Credits

“This 6 min video explains from game dev perspective why (AAA) games have been pegged at $60 on release”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

documentary#3257

Shenzhen: A New Breed of Intellectual Property (Part 3) | Future Cities | WIRED

Uncanny Valley by WIRED

“A shoutout to a new video series from WIRED on Shenzhen.”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

explainer#3325

India's Semiconductor Failure

Asianometry

“India had sound policies it was quite ahead of time when it created SCL, check this video for more”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

commentary#3330

So...TikTok Sucks

Hank Green

“Worth the full watch on video media money.”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

commentary#3345

China's Bicycle sharing WENT INSANE!

serpentza

“I find this fellow's assessment accurate, if you want a brief overview.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2018

explainer#3348

Why is Japan So Weak in Software?

Asianometry

“There's fantastic video in this from Asianometry”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

lecture#3419

Jaron Lanier – Who is Civilization for? (+ Q&A with Ulrich Kelber) Willy Brandt Lecture 2018

Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung

“The best proposal I’ve heard to deal with the societal/economic problems this sort of A.I. poses were made by Jaron Lanier”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

explainer#3476

How Dollar Stores Quietly Consumed America

Wendover Productions

“I think it does a good job explaining the problem”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2025