Hacker Culture & Free Software Videos Hacker News Recommends

talk#3

Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips

Andor Gafotas

“This talk on YouTube is the most in depth explanation of IC manufacuring I have seen. I highly recommend it to anyone, no matter their background.”

19 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

documentary#70

Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

The Documentary Network

“Code Rush, which is an awesome documentary for anyone interested in the history of the Web”

13 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

interview#195

"Money doesn't interest me" - Ton Roosendaal 2017 Interview

Blender Guru

“I highly encourage to watch the whole interview”

7 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#464

28c3: The coming war on general computation

28c3

“which I very strongly recommend that everybody watch”

6 HN recommenders · 2011–2026

talk#502

"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki

Strange Loop Conference

“Regardless of whether you agree with his approach to developing a programming language, it is a talk worth listening to. Very insightful.”

8 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

talk#506

[HOPE X] Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse

themarimbaincident

“This version is the best, with all details, no secrets withheld.”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

music#553

Copying Is Not Theft - Official Version

Question Copyright

“A one minute ELI5 explanation about the difference between physical and intellectual property.”

6 HN recommenders · 2010–2026

talk#585

Civil War General-Purpose Computing | Cory Doctorow | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

“I highly recommend reading up on what Cory has to say on DRM and the war on general purpose computing. It may change your mind.”

4 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

documentary#705

Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence

znoopy2k

“Code Rush is a great SV tech documentary about the initial release of Mozilla”

5 HN recommenders · 2011–2013

talk#742

2 1 1 Jason Scott Rescuing The Prince of Persia from the sands of time

Adrian Crenshaw

“My favourite example of digital archaeology from recent years”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

talk#1121

"A Political History of X" - Keith Packard (LCA 2020)

linux.conf.au

“I invite anyone interested by the subject to watch Keith Packard's amazing presentation on this at LCA 2020”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#1229

36C3 - BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier - english translation

media.ccc.de

“There was this really great talk on the Chaos Communication Congress some time back”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#1259

36C3 - Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware

media.ccc.de

“Here's an excellent talk that addresses your question”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#1270

DEFCON 17: That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars

Christiaan008

“Watch his talk on the matter, it is really great”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

talk#1301

Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud

Punkcast

“It's worth the watch/listen to get the idea in full.”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2018

talk#1443

Introduction to LibrePCB A new, powerful and intuitive EDA tool for everyone

FOSDEM

“Here's a video from FOSDEM where Urban (the main author) explains why he started LibrePCB”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

talk#1459

ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack

textfilesdotcom

“gave a fantastically entertaining talk about how they saved Geocities, Yahoo! Video, and Friendster”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

documentary#1541

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | full movie (2014)

moviemaniacsDE

“here's a must-watch documentary, especially if you belong to the hacker culture”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

documentary#1773

Revolution OS

Von Hash

“For those that haven't seen Revolution OS I would highly recommend it for much of the Linux backstory.”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

talk#1784

The Surprising History of Copyright and What It Means For...

Google TechTalks

“Karl Fogel does a great job explaining the History of copyright”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

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#1957

Free software, free society: Richard Stallman at TEDxGeneva 2014

TEDx Talks

“I'd recommend this[1] talk by Richard Stallman, it's pretty basic, but it gets the idea across well.”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#2008

BSidesLV 2013 3 2 7 Sixteen Colors Archiving the Evolution of ANSI and ASCII Art Doug Moore Bren

Adrian Crenshaw

“If you want to watch a cool talk about the evolution of NFO and ascii (color) art scene and processes, I recommend watching”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

commentary#2070

Should Knowledge Be Free?

Medlife Crisis

“I found this discussion really informative”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#2154

Howard Payne & Deviant Ollam - This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key

DeviantOllam

“I have to also mention another video of theirs”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

talk#2379

Keynote - Karen Sandler

Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia

“here's a really excellent talk by Karen Sandler.”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2016

talk#2436

F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"

F2C2012

“If you haven't watched aaronsw's talk on stopping SOPA, it's well worth your time.”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2023

talk#2494

DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles

DEFCONConference

“Related, and a personal favorite of mine”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#2656

re:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media

re:publica

“none seems to beat those from Stallman's lawyer, Eben Moglen.”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2022

talk#2769

NSA operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report - FOSDEM 2014

cnxlinux

“It’s pretty entertaining and illustrates that this is nothing new.”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

interview#3075

Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for

TFiR

“Here is an excellent video of Linus talking about why he specifically chose the GPLv2”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#3128

dotJS 2012 - Fat - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?

dotconferences

“Maybe relevant to watch this video for a first hand report of burnout from a coding rockstar”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2016

talk#3164

Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley | TEDxMaastricht

TEDx Talks

“had a great talk five years ago on how restricting information is a form of cultural cancer”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

documentary#3371

BBS the Documentary [Full HD]

L33T GUY

“BBS: The Documentary is covers a lot of what you’re asking about.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

interview#3383

A Conversation with Stewart Brand (Devcon4)

Ethereum Foundation

“I enjoyed this conversation with Stuart Brand”

2 HN recommenders · 2021

documentary#3569

Kubernetes: The Documentary [PART 1]

CultRepo

“Fascinating documentary on Kubernetes for those who have 50 minutes.”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#3702

Talk - Eben Moglen - Free and Open Software: Paradigm for a New Intellectual Commons

talkingsticktv

“I promise every second is worth watching.”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2023

talk#3709

Eben Moglen: How I discovered Free Software and met RMS

roblimo

“only 10 minutes long but jam packed with wisdom”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

talk#3757

H2K2 (2002): "The Conscience of a Hacker"

Channel2600

“For the backstory by the author you're better off with the talk given at HOPE in 2002.”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

music#3892

The Light It Up Contest -- geohot

geohot

“Here's geohot's brilliant reply”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2025

talk#3990

[FOSSi Dial-Up] Tim Ansell - Skywater PDK: Fully open source manufacturable PDK for a 130nm process

FOSSi Foundation

“I suggest you watch this video from Google where they explain why they are doing what they are doing”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

other#4040

HACKERS | Just the Hacking Scenes | MGM Studios

Amazon MGM Studios

1 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

explainer#4288

Trusted Computing? Yes or No

Robin Good

“Here it's put in easy to understand terms”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

talk#4464

PdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves

PdF YouTube

“Eben Moglen talks about how the internet is going to lose what made it great”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2023

interview#4556

Jellyvision Q&A with DHH & Jason Fried

JellyvisionLab

“he approaches things in a much more realistic down to earth manner than many other engineers out there.”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2016