Networking & Internet Infrastructure Videos Hacker News Recommends
Networking & internet infrastructure videos on HackerTube: the talks, lectures and explainers Hacker News commenters keep sharing, covering TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, BGP, CDNs, protocols, WiFi, routing, undersea cables, internet architecture, web servers, nginx, how the internet works.
59 videos · ranked by HN recommendations · showing 1–48
Most recommended networking & internet infrastructure videos
The ones HN returns to most often when a thread turns to this topic.
demo#131Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need
suckerpinch
“recommend this video to anyone here.”
12 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
commentary#220This Video Is Sponsored By ███ VPN
Tom Scott
“It's well worth the seven and a half minutes to watch it, IMO.”
9 HN recommenders · 2019–2026
talk#388A New Way to look at Networking
“This video explains very clearly how this is the case”
6 HN recommenders · 2011–2018
commentary#415Net Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
“John Oliver did a much better job (and funnier, btw)”
7 HN recommenders · 2014–2017
explainer#757Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile
Computerphile
“a wonderful, terse, very informative video describing how utf-8 encoding works and why”
4 HN recommenders · 2014–2025
talk#8668 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2
GDC Festival of Gaming
“For an in-depth explanation, see this excellent GDC talk on its implementation in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2”
4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
explainer#1370Why SpaceX is Making Starlink
Real Engineering
“the whole video is worth watching”
4 HN recommenders · 2019–2020
talk#1493AWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets
Amazon Web Services
“Here's the ever excellent Eric Brandwine explaining what AWS does at L3 wrt VPC”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
talk#1503Email Hates the Living
m
“If you want to read about the insanity behind some of the protocols watch that talk.”
3 HN recommenders · 2015–2022
talk#1603Ricardo Signes - 闇のEメール伝説
yapcasia
“There is is awesome talk about E-Mail by Ricardo Signes”
3 HN recommenders · 2011–2021
talk#1614Defeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)
TheSecurityTube
“Very entertaining.”
3 HN recommenders · 2014–2018
explainer#1640Starlink revisions, Nov 2018
Mark Handley
“this guy made an excellent youtube video modeling and visualizing the satellite orbits”
4 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
talk#1884High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle Drake
PDX Node
“Check out this talk by Kyle Drake that goes more into the details of bandwidth costs”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
talk#1907Defcon 21 - The Secret Life of SIM Cards
HackersOnBoard
“This video from defcon gives a good overview of what Java Card applets is”
3 HN recommenders · 2014–2026
talk#1922Defcon 20 - Dan Tentler - Drinking from the caffeine firehose we know as shodan
vissago
“Warning - watching this may readjust your faith in humanity.”
3 HN recommenders · 2014–2019
talk#1928Susan 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#1953Jared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)
NLNOG
“At this year's (virtual) NLNOG there was presentation from a fellow who was fed up with slow Internet options in his rural Michigan county”
3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
demo#1955Low Latency Routing in Space
HotNets Anonymous
“This video goes a bit into the probable topology of the links and gives a good look at how the eventual constellation would look.”
4 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
documentary#2027The Secrets Of Cornwall - Part 1 - Communications
Mark Thomas
“Documentary about the cable landing stations: The Secrets of Cornwall”
3 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
explainer#2238Using ground relays with Starlink
Mark Handley
“as Mark Handley has elegantly pointed out in his incredible video”
5 HN recommenders · 2020
talk#2248Netdev 0x16 - Keynote: It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter
netdevconf
“The Netdev talk I've linked below is really good”
2 HN recommenders · 2023
talk#2404DEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation
DEFCONConference
“A really fun DefCon talk on bitsquatting.”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
talk#2551Here's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS
Troy Hunt
“The linked video is a must watch to those who still doubt HTTPS”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
documentary#2552BBS The.Documentary Part 4 - Fidonet
bbsers
“A great documentary on FidoNet's rise with superb music and universal themes”
2 HN recommenders · 2014–2019
tutorial#2553Tutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking
NANOG
“proved invaluable to me in learning optical networking”
2 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
commentary#2757DEBUNKING STARLINK
Common Sense Skeptic
“watching Common Sense Skeptic’s video, which I recommend”
2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
talk#2760FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix serving at 800Gb/s - Drew Gallatin - EuroBSDcon 2022
EuroBSDCon
“this might be a little lower level that you may be interested in as it relates to kernel optimizations to jack bit throughput rates”
2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
talk#2824Cory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
“give some really great brainfood about the way currently all kinds of network protocols are implemented”
2 HN recommenders · 2016–2024
demo#2829IPFS Alpha Demo
Juan Benet
“Watch a demo of this @ 7:00 in this video”
2 HN recommenders · 2015–2017
talk#2867SpaceX Seattle 2015
Cliff O
“Here is a video where elon explains the system very well in 2015.”
2 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
talk#2914The benefits of deploying IPv6 only
NANOG
“Watch Paul Saab from Facebook talk about how much better IPv6 performs at NANOG 64”
3 HN recommenders · 2015–2016
explainer#2926All you need to know to understand 5G
Sabine Hossenfelder
“this is an even-handed (reasonably well-informed) take on the matter from physicist Sabine Hossenfelder”
2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
talk#2980AWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)
Amazon Web Services
“James Hamilton gives a good talk that goes over networking (and more).”
2 HN recommenders · 2014–2020
talk#3212DEFCON 19: Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation (w speaker)
Christiaan008
“There was a good Defcon talk about some security implications of this phenomenon”
2 HN recommenders · 2016–2024
talk#3265Matrix 2.0 — How we're making Matrix go voom!
Matrixdotorg
“we revealed the end result at FOSDEM a few weeks ago, and it literally improves performance to be better than Telegram/Discord/Slack”
2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
tutorial#3308#112 LoRa / LoRaWAN De-Mystified / Tutorial
Andreas Spiess
“A good explanation of LoRa, and in particular of the "link budget" idea”
2 HN recommenders · 2019–2024
tutorial#3335Implementing (part of) a BitTorrent client in Rust
Jon Gjengset
“Jon Gjengset did a comprehensive stream going through the Build your own BitTorrent challenge”
2 HN recommenders · 2023
explainer#3413How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?📡☄🖥
Branch Education
“It's a bit long but has some good details!”
2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
documentary#3435Speedy Cutover Service, SXS switching cutover to ESS filmed live at Glendale CA central office, 1984
AT&T Tech Channel
“Total downtime was just 47 seconds.”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
talk#3583ONS 2015: Wednesday Keynote - Amin Vahdat
Open Networking Summit
“If you're interested in datacenter networking, can't miss ONS.”
1 HN recommenders · 2015–2017
talk#3668115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go by Dan Tentler
Devoxx
“for complete madness and awe I recommend to watch this one”
1 HN recommenders · 2016–2025
explainer#3718AT&T Archives: The Step-By-Step Switch
AT&T Tech Channel
“My favorite old explainer video, telephone switching (1951)”
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
talk#3740Tobias Engel: SS7: Locate. Track. Manipulate.
media.ccc.de
“Tobias Engel demonstrates among other things tracking down a test subject over two continents for about a month”
1 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
talk#3768Speakeasy JS - Redbean: Actually Portable Executable Web Server (Justine Tunney)
Feross
“If you're interested in learning more, this talk from 2021 is fascinating”
1 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
talk#3970Defcon 18 - Practical Cellphone Spying - Chris Paget - Part.mov
killab66661
“Here's an old talk that references someone's deadname with good technical information”
1 HN recommenders · 2014–2022
talk#4088dotScale 2015 - John Graham-Cumming - I got 10 trillion problems, but logging ain't one
dotconferences
“I discovered a moderately old video from CloudFlare hiding in there, and had a rather big TIL moment.”
1 HN recommenders · 2015–2018
commentary#4241Rick Reacts to Lightning (Again) and brings up a previously undiscussed flaw
We Are All Satoshi
“Key bit from 10:00 on, though the rest is well worth your time”
1 HN recommenders · 2018–2019
news#42421994: "Today Show": "What is the Internet, Anyway?"
Chrissy Miklacic
“Here is one of my favorite videos from the early days of the web.”
1 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
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