Computer Architecture & CPUs Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 2

explainer#2101

How "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo

The 8-Bit Guy

“The 8-Bit Guy has some great videos about how graphics worked on the older systems”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2019

documentary#2104

The Only Famous Motherboard

Cathode Ray Dude - CRD

“Cathode Ray Dude's channel has a great video about the history of this amazing motherboard”

3 HN recommenders · 2025

talk#2122

DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - The Ring 0 Facade Awakening the Processors Inner Demons

DEFCONConference

“I remember watching his Defcon talks on x86 shenanigans[^1][^2] and being amazed at what he's been able to discover”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

explainer#2123

Emulating the DX7 the HARD way

plgDavid

“a YouTube video about the reverse engineering process from David at Plogue”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

lecture#2157

Stanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic

Stanford Online

“Here's a nice introductory presentation”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

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

explainer#2281

The Smartphone CPU Review You NEED to Watch!

Geekerwan

“explores the power efficiency graphs and that's probably what most phone users really want”

4 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

interview#2370

3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell

Computer History Museum

“This is a really great retrospective on 3dfx from four of the founders.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

talk#2404

DEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation

DEFCONConference

“A really fun DefCon talk on bitsquatting.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

demo#2447

Living Computation: Robust-first programming in ULAM

Dave Ackley

“I think the best place to start is this demo of a network switch made out of cells”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

lecture#2449

Stanford Seminar - Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape

Stanford Online

“his Stanford talk is extremely informative”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#2451

Tuesday @ 1130 ISA Shootout – a Comparison of RISC V, ARM, and x86 Chris Celio, UC Berkeley V2

RISC-V International

“You should watch this video”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2020

talk#2472

Chuck Moore's Fireside Chat 2011

GreenArraysInc

“I was blown away by this 2011 video of Charles Moore talking about his CPU design and running code”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2017

talk#2517

Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill, Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law

FunctionalTV

“Bryan Cantrill has a great talk on this and the end of scaling”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

talk#2652

HC2023-K2: Hardware for Deep Learning

hotchipsvideos

“The whole talk is brilliant and worth watching.”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

tutorial#2658

Making logic gates from transistors

Ben Eater

“All his videos are amazing, and super easy to understand.”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

talk#2687

The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer - Brian Troutwine

Erlang Solutions

“The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer" is a wonderful talk”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2019

interview#2709

He started a computing REVOLUTION—then the shortage hit

Jeff Geerling

“This interview with one of the founders from Jeff Geerling was quite insightful, definitely check it out if you haven't already!”

2 HN recommenders · 2023

talk#2773

Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe

SHARE Association

“it's an entertaining 45 minutes”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

podcast#2791

Oxide and Friends 7/3/2023 -- Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered!

Oxide Computer Company

“We have talked quite a bit about what it's like to be making hardware as a startup”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

other#2833

Vampire 2 Review - The Fastest Amiga Ever?!

Dan Wood

“This is a decent introductory video”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

interview#3023

Oral History of Gary Davidian, part 2 of 2

Computer History Museum

“There’s an interview with him in the Computer History Museum archive.”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

explainer#3074

Floating Point Numbers - Computerphile

Computerphile

“Tom Scott's fun and simple take on Floating Points is a good video explaining why such weird errors happen”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

demo#3134

Hetzner shows Special AM5 Board with 90° Rotated Socket

der8auer EN

“The second is especially interesting as it demonstrates Hetzner's unique semi-custom hardware.”

1 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

explainer#3146

AMD Ryzen Eco Mode Deep-Dive & Benchmarks on R9 7950X (Zen 4)

Gamers Nexus

“So just enable it and enjoy way more reasonable and efficient power usage with basically almost the same performance.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023

demo#3182

SGI Indigo2: An $86,000 Workstation from 1995

LGR

“he did a great video on it”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

talk#3194

Sophie Wilson - The Future of Microprocessors

Erlang Solutions

“Highly recommend watching this video”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2018

explainer#3197

Tomb Raider on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is incredible | MVG

Modern Vintage Gamer

“I found some fascinating coverage of the OpenLara project, specifically for the port of Tomb Raider to the GBA.”

2 HN recommenders · 2022

explainer#3249

How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps

Branch Education

“the Branch Education YouTube channel has great videos detailing the manufacturing process as well”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

interview#3270

Oral History of Chuck Peddle

Computer History Museum

“You might also like the Computer History Museum interview w/Bill Mensch”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

explainer#3281

Why build an entire computer on breadboards?

Ben Eater

“Ben Eater had a whole video on why he encourages building a breadboard computer.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

demo#3298

Fixing Apple's GOOD Engineering - M1 MacBook Air thermal pads

Linus Tech Tips

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

lecture#3340

Trends in Deep Learning Hardware: Bill Dally (NVIDIA)

Paul G. Allen School

“Quite an interesting video IMO.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

explainer#3434

Racing the Beam Explained - Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television

Retro Game Mechanics Explained

“Here’s a detailed video by retro game mechanics that shows how the logo graphics of the infamous E.T. game is rendered”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

demo#3528

Megaprocessor Tour 1 - (fixed audio)

Megaprocessor

“A video tour is available on youtube, so we don't crush his website”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

explainer#3548

An astonishing old calculator - Numberphile

Numberphile

“There is also a fantastic video where Cliff Stoll describes the Friden EC-132 calculator and shows off its acoustic delay line here”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

lecture#3621

Anton: A Special-Purpose Machine That Achieves a Hundred-Fold Speedup in Biomolecular Simulations

NC State

“There is brilliant video by the hedge fund manager DE Shaw about molecular dynamics simulation. Its very accessible and I found it very interesting”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#3652

GOD MODE UNLOCKED - Hardware Backdoors in x86 CPUs

Black Hat

“I've seen too many mind-blowing presentations from security researchers to think I can bound their abilities safely.”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

talk#3657

36C3 - Uncover, Understand, Own - Regaining Control Over Your AMD CPU

media.ccc.de

“(Btw, watch the whole talk, it's nothing short of incredible.)”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

talk#3696

Joanna Rutkowska: Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops

media.ccc.de

“Essential reading!!”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

talk#3711

Seymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL)

UC Berkeley Events

“My favorite part is his description of the aluminum machining they had to invent in order to move the freon through the frame”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

demo#3773

14nm and 7nm are NOT what you think it is - Visiting Tescan Part 3/3

der8auer

“Here's a neat video where they use an electron microscope to actually compare the transistor sizes for Intel 14nm and AMD 7nm”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

interview#3806

[11] Mike Clark, AMD Zen Chief Architect

TechTechPotato

“Check out this interview with the actual architect of Zen, Mike Clark.”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#3877

Jim Keller - Moore's Law in the age of AI Chips

Matroid

“Jim Keller had an interesting talk recently [1] about ways of doing parallel processing”

1 HN recommenders · 2020

explainer#3912

The Universe is Hostile to Computers

Veritasium

“The Universe is Hostile to Computers" by Veritasium is good video.”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

tutorial#3931

SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 - Silicon Graphics Onyx RealityEngine²

Dodoid

“Fun vid that might bring back some memories :)”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

lecture#3966

The Mill CPU Architecture – The Compiler (10 of 13)

Mill Computing, Inc.

“have a design talk that covers these concepts wonderfully in the general form”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

explainer#3987

“Too Much Thermal Paste” – Benchmark of Thermal Paste Quantity

Gamers Nexus

“Too much paste is fine; too little is not.”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2024