Computer Architecture & CPUs Videos Hacker News Recommends

other#35

8-bit computer update

Ben Eater

“I think I learned more from Ben Eater’s “Building an 8-bit breadboard computer” series [0] than my intro to computer architecture course at university.”

14 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

lecture#47

Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer

TNMoC

“The guy is really, really into it and it just makes the presentation amazing.”

11 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

tutorial#52

“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — Part 1

Ben Eater

“It is highly recommended if you want to dive down into computers and digital logic on first principles.”

11 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

talk#99

Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams

The Qualcomm Institute

“I encourage folks to watch this tech talk by HP Research Labs on the discovery of the memristor and implementation details.”

12 HN recommenders · 2010–2024

talk#112

The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)

media.ccc.de

“I'd recommend watching The Ultimate Game Boy Talk [1] before trying to dive into any code.”

10 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

talk#123

The Thirty Million Line Problem

Molly Rocket

“The video is long, but it's worth watching all of it.”

11 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#172

USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

USENIX

“There's this great USENIX talk by Timothy Roscoe [1]”

12 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

interview#216

Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70

Lex Fridman

“I was stunned by Jim's total command of Computer Architecture, and his deep insights about the subject.”

8 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#264

34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk

media.ccc.de

“This is the best description of AGC I have seen so far, from hardware design to mission software, layer by layer”

9 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#291

Jim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead

UC Berkeley EECS

“It is worth watching Jim Keller's lecture at UC Berkeley literally titled "Moore's law is not dead".”

7 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#303

"Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power" - Chuck Moore (2013)

Strange Loop Conference

“This talk by Chuck Moore at Strange Loop was amazing”

7 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

demo#306

NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS

suckerpinch

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

7 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

lecture#341

Richard Feynman Computer Science Lecture - Hardware, Software and Heuristics

Muon Ray

“This actually changed the way I think about it after years of programming.”

8 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

talk#346

Breaking the x86 Instruction Set

Black Hat

“I found it easy to follow and pretty entertaining.”

9 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

talk#351

Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft

Platform Security Summit

“This is a very interesting talk from Microsoft about how they made Xbox immune to physical attacks”

8 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

lecture#396

Simple Code, High Performance

Molly Rocket

“I highly recommend watching it.”

6 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

talk#454

C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter - atomic Weapons 1 of 2

alexsmail

“which are extremely good”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

tutorial#511

How does a USB keyboard work?

Ben Eater

“Fantastic breakdown if you have 30 minutes”

7 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

demo#586

Robust-first computing: Demon Horde Sort (full version)

Dave Ackley

“it's certainly esoteric, but has some extremely important properties.”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

explainer#598

CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!

The 8-Bit Guy

“The 8-Bit guy did a great piece on CGA that goes into detail about how old developers abused the fuzzy smeary nature of composite signals”

6 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

documentary#618

Over 200,000 Servers in One Place! Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)

der8auer EN

“There's a great YouTube tour of one of their data centres here”

6 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

talk#619

Java on a 1000 Cores - Tales of Hardware / Software CoDesign

Google TechTalks

“Anything from Cliff Click is quite good.”

5 HN recommenders · 2009–2025

talk#706

Stanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer

Stanford Online

“The talk lays out a history of servers, describes the problems with the servers that you can buy from vendors today”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

lecture#730

Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond

funbury

“Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond" is a good illustration of this (segment is only 2m)”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

explainer#745

Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)

Veritasium

“Veritasium explains it really well in general here (and demos the device)”

7 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#837

GPUs to Mars: Full-Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine

insideHPC Report

“This talk was given at NVIDIA GTC 2015 and inspired me to go into manufacturing”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

explainer#863

How does Computer Memory Work? 💻🛠

Branch Education

“It is both detailed enough and clear thanks to the simplified visuals.”

5 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

talk#903

Simon Peyton Jones: Data Parallel Haskell

nuACM

“a promising language abstraction to do hard things with parallelism relatively easily”

5 HN recommenders · 2010–2017

talk#961

The Road to PS5

PlayStation

“IMO required viewing for any dev to form a more informed opinion on the SSD tech.”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

tutorial#1219

Building a 6800 CPU on an FPGA with nMigen (part 1)

Robert Baruch

“I can only recommend these Youtube series, where nMigen is used to build a full 6800 CPU”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#1381

DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - GOD MODE UNLOCKED Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86

DEFCONConference

“Christopher Domas is one of my absolute favorite all-time hackers. He does such a fantastic job of explaining his work.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

talk#1476

CppCon 2017: Chandler Carruth “Going Nowhere Faster”

CppCon

“The best presentation I've seen about CPU performance related to pipelining, branch prediction, and speculative execution”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

lecture#1489

John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

“I consistently recommend Hennessy and Patterson's Turing Award Talk[1] as a good overview of the past, present and future of chip performance.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#1525

Robust-first computing: Beyond efficiency

Dave Ackley

“here is a far better explanation by the terms creator”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

interview#1542

[7] Jim Keller, Silicon Wizard 🧙‍♂️

TechTechPotato

“It’s actually important (if you’re not an engineer) to listen to the whole thing, because he drops knowledge all over the place.”

3 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

talk#1677

code::dive conference 2014 - Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care

NOKIA Technology Center Wrocław

“Scott Meyers had a very good talk which contained this information”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#1687

CppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “C++ atomics, from basic to advanced. What do they really do?”

CppCon

“Watching this was enlightening to say the least (and the presenter is very good)”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#1692

25c3: The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk

Christiaan008

“His “Ultimate Guide” talks are great and I rewatch them at least once a year.”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2025

tutorial#1725

8-bit CPU control logic: Part 1

Ben Eater

“If you only have a limited amount of time I would highly recommend the control logic video”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

talk#1740

27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)

Christiaan008

“This is a great presentation showing how this CPU is reverse engineered”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

explainer#1782

New computers don't speed up old code

Matthias random stuff

“This great video [0] demonstrates how CPU performance has only increased 1.5-2x over the past 15(!) years when executing extremely branchy code.”

3 HN recommenders · 2025

explainer#1802

Why Do Mainframes Still Exist? What's Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more!

Dave's Garage

“This is an amazing 23-minute video by the Microsoft programmer who developed the Windows NT Task Manager, among other things.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

talk#1915

ASPLOS Keynote: The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-design by Dr. Chris Lattner

SiFive

“I watched Chris Lattner's ASPLOS talk and it finally clicked.”

3 HN recommenders · 2021

demo#1944

Samsung SSD Awesomeness

ssdawesome

“Samsung has a funny and impressive "viral" ad video showing 24 SSD drives in a RAID array.”

3 HN recommenders · 2009–2011

interview#1993

Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162

Lex Fridman

“Investing time to listen to the guy seems to be not worse.”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

talk#1995

RAAIS 2017 - Simon Knowles, Co-Founder and CTO of Graphcore

The Research and Applied AI Summit - RAAIS

“Here's a nice technical talk from Graphcore's CTO about that”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2018

talk#2030

C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter - atomic Weapons 2 of 2

alexsmail

“For a more in depth introduction to the topic with a lot of practical code examples, I highly recommend”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

talk#2057

A Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click

Devoxx

“it's a really accessible refresher if you're a bit outdated on how all these caches work and interact”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2025