University Lectures & Courses Videos Hacker News Recommends

lecture#4

How to Speak

MIT OpenCourseWare

“drop what you're doing and watch it now”

17 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

lecture#10

1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology

Stanford

“Best course I've ever done.”

15 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

lecture#20

LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively

UChicago Social Sciences

“it's a masterclass in understanding what writing actually is, and what it does for you”

15 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

lecture#36

MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy (IAP 2017) - Zach Hartwig

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

“This has been by far the most informative source on Fusion I've seen and gives a clear picture on how to evaluate claims like this.”

16 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

lecture#37

Stanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)

Stanford

“This is the quintessential video for understanding clinical depression.”

14 HN recommenders · 2009–2026

lecture#39

Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"

Harvard University

“Two lecture series I always recommend, and feel like everyone should watch”

11 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

lecture#55

Lec 1 | MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005

MIT OpenCourseWare

“I highly recommend the MIT 18.06 open course on linear algebra - the lectures are first rate.”

11 HN recommenders · 2011–2020

lecture#84

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Carnegie Mellon University

“If you haven't watched this, it will change your life.”

12 HN recommenders · 2008–2023

lecture#91

Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp

MIT OpenCourseWare

“I watched and cannot recommend it enough, even for seasoned programmers”

10 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

lecture#106

Lecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986

MIT OpenCourseWare

“blew my mind and made me switch from being a UX designer dabbling in Rails to a full blown programmer.”

11 HN recommenders · 2012–2024

lecture#109

The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)

wonderingmind42

“stick with it; it's really captivating and interesting”

13 HN recommenders · 2010–2025

course#135

Lecture 1 | Machine Learning (Stanford)

Stanford

“I'd suggest going back to the original youtube[1] and course materials[2].”

11 HN recommenders · 2008–2020

lecture#137

Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur

UMBCtube

“Great video on how a pretty good teacher (as conventionally measured) learned how to really teach.”

9 HN recommenders · 2009–2023

lecture#163

The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren

University of California Television (UCTV)

“it's gripping stuff, because she develops insights based on research and hard-nosed science.”

10 HN recommenders · 2008–2022

course#201

RL Course by David Silver - Lecture 1: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

Google DeepMind

“Really clear explanations that went hand in hand when I was reading Sutton and Barto's introductory book.”

9 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

lecture#202

Lecture 6: Version Control (git) (2020)

Missing Semester

“I think that this video should be considered mandatory viewing if you're a developer using Git”

9 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

lecture#208

30 Essential Ideas you should know about ADHD, 1A Intro, Chronic Developmental Disability

Adhd Videos

“Probably the best introduction to ADHD is a 1.5 lecture by Dr. Russell Barkley, a top researcher in this area.”

9 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

lecture#211

Category Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy

Bartosz Milewski

“I think they are a very nice place to start learning these things.”

11 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

lecture#259

Analogy as the Core of Cognition

Stanford

“No discussion about concepts, analogy and metaphor is complete with a mention of”

7 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

lecture#315

Lecture: 2017 Maps of Meaning 01: Context and Background

Jordan B Peterson

“this series genuinely helped me put myself back together after my ego was shattered”

6 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

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

lecture#365

Richard Feynman - The.Character of Physical Law - Part 1 The Law of Gravitation (full version)

Tinkerin' Thinkers

“Feynman is so good at explaining these concepts that you don't even need any formal training to understand them.”

6 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

lecture#372

01 - Course Introduction & Relational Model (CMU Databases Systems / Fall 2019)

CMU Database Group

“Highly recommended both for the depth and how Andy Pavlo presents the topic.”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

lecture#386

Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction

John Vervaeke’s Lectern

“this series has it all.”

6 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

lecture#453

Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin

Yale University

“I strongly recommend to watch this talk”

10 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

lecture#460

Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories (subtitulos castellano)

Eva CollinsAlonso

“Vonnegut is really special. I always like coming back to his Shape of Stories talks”

6 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

lecture#466

Paxos lecture (Raft user study)

Diego Ongaro

“The 2 videos do an excellent job of explaining both the Paxos and Raft algorithms and the key differences between them.”

6 HN recommenders · 2013–2024

lecture#566

Jack Szostak (Harvard/HHMI) Part 1: The Origin of Cellular Life on Earth

Science Communication Lab

“Jack Szostak does a pretty good job of outlining how life might have arisen.”

6 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

lecture#573

Great Earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest

Central Washington University

“It's better than most TV if you've got the time.”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

lecture#580

Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion

YaleCourses

“gives you invaluable understanding about much more than just Ukraine.”

6 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

course#582

Pythagoras' theorem (a) | Math History | NJ Wildberger

Insights into Mathematics

“Highly recommend his History of Mathematics lectures on YouTube”

6 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

lecture#611

Jancovici : Can we save energy, jobs and growth at the same time ? 08/01/2018

Jean-Marc Jancovici

“this doc illustrates the enormous realities of energy challenges with sober clarity often exposed by Jancovici”

6 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

lecture#614

Floyd Toole - Sound reproduction – art and science/opinions and facts

CIRMMT

“In blind testing, the average listener reliably prefers the more accurate speaker.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

lecture#627

Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"A Conjecture That Had To Be True" (2017)

Stanford Online

“it's always a pleasure for me to see Knuth's talks or read his work”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

lecture#651

Distributed Systems 1.1: Introduction

Martin Kleppmann

“the distributed system audio course on youtube is extremely accessible”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

lecture#665

Lecture 1: Introduction

MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems

“Martin Kleppmann (author of DDIA)”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

course#689

Lecture 01 - The Learning Problem

caltech

“I have found the Caltech machine learning intro course to be the most elucidating of any resource so far”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

lecture#696

Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management

Carnegie Mellon University

“So much so that I rewatch it about once a year”

4 HN recommenders · 2009–2021

course#737

Special Topics - The Kalman Filter (1 of 55) What is a Kalman Filter?

Michel van Biezen

“It's really worth watching even just the first couple videos to get a deeper understanding of this very useful technique.”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

lecture#767

Control Bootcamp: Overview

Steve Brunton

“a sweet lecture series called the Control Bootcamp that dives deep into control fundamentals while still being approachable”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

lecture#796

Particles, Fields and The Future of Physics - A Lecture by Sean Carroll

Fermilab

“Sean Carroll is a master of making quantum mechanics approachable to non-physicists.”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

lecture#810

Exponential Growth Arithmetic, Population and Energy, Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

Hiroob

“The point is well illustrated in the talk, I highly recommend it.”

5 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

lecture#822

Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4

Sebastien Bubeck

“Highly highly highly recommend listen to this lecture by Sebastien Bubeck”

7 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

lecture#869

The Unanswered Question 1973 1 Musical Phonology Bernstein Norton

cagin

“Check out the Norton Lectures especially, where Bernstein analyzes musical structure with references to Chomsky.”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

lecture#872

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal

Michael Sugrue

“have watched this lecture multiple times (each time I was going through some bad things in my life) and it helped me tremendously.”

4 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

lecture#902

Preface | MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus

MIT OpenCourseWare

“The way he explains things just clicked, after numerous failed attempts to learn from other sources.”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

lecture#930

Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming

Tom Wildenhain

“Strong recommend!”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

lecture#940

31 Hamming, Learning to Learn: You and Your Research, 6 June 1995

Hamming on Hamming: Learning to Learn

“It's the last lecture in a wonderful 31-lecture course”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2024