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Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?

418 points by sherlock_h ↗ HN
Any kind of channels are ok! I am specifically interested in urban (balcony) gardening, guitar and gaming (Apex Legends).

Would be interested in what other people are watching and what other cool channels are out there.

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AlchemistCamp
I've been inspired GoRails and Laracasts.

Outside of coding, I've enjoyed Day9, Marginal Revolution and various interview shows with accomplished guests.

Havoc
Found linus tech tips surprisingly entertaining.

e.g. Their episodes attempting to watercool 6 powerful PCs on a giant watercooling loop

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throwaway8879
Food Wishes, Laura in the Kitchen, Bon Appetit, Tasty, Munchies, Pasta Grannies, Maangchi
cladari
I'd add Americas Test Kitchen - independent testing of kitchen appliances and basics. Recipe how to's after extensive testing. Good cooking tips.
drewrv
I'm on a phone so links are hard, but I'll throw in...

- Woodworking for mere mortals, it's a series that goes into detail about basic things for beginner woodworkers.

- PBS Spacetime, they cover astronomy and cosmology at a nice level for educated laypeople.

AceyMan
For real maths, 3blue1brown is my go-to (1.9M subscribers, fwiw).

For "real science" with younger kids (or just non-sci/eng people), Kurzgesagt is wonderful.

And +1 for Minute Physics (previously mentioned).

type0
Applied Science, Ben Eater
rasz
honest manual labor/heavy machinery/repairs/fabrication - Andrew Camarata https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUujfNBK9uv3cIW-P5PX7vA/vid...

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fixing old junk/cars/bikes/engines - Mustie1 https://www.youtube.com/user/mustie1/videos?disable_polymer=...

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fixing old electronic junk - The Post Apocalyptic Inventor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDbWmfrwmzn1ZsGgrYRUxoA/vid...

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old technology deep dives - Technology Connections https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q/vid...

Techmoan https://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan/videos?disable_polymer...

VWestlife https://www.youtube.com/user/vwestlife/videos?disable_polyme...

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fixing electronics - The Workbench https://www.youtube.com/user/kore464/videos?disable_polymer=...

CORE https://www.youtube.com/user/1servicecore/videos?disable_pol...

Terabit Lab https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRTfkRDKqsI9FSXP1sc4kw/vid...

Laptop.In.UA Videochannel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIHSBp0MiQDV-b1dQuS_BfA/vid...

Langeron.lg.ua https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2EQmypjuRR4oBYQICIEgCg/vid...

Remonter https://www.youtube.com/user/MrMarigor/videos?disable_polyme...

STS Telecom https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC39yMXOL0ubFxLWwF1RwelA/vid...

iPad Rehab https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjp41qeXe1o_lp1US9TpWA/vid...

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welding aluminum - ПРАВКА,СВАРКА АЛЮМИНИЯ. Евгений Иванов https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_HZvxzC_PWvRKoFznYOfYw/vid...

djmips
what! you've been spying at my YouTube account for ideas? heheh.
chupa-chups
Just read. More information, more compressed, easier to skip what you already know. Now flame me :)
maerF0x0
This post is for those who have already chosen to use youtube. How about you help us out with a Reading recommendation or a ask HN?
aaronarduino 

  Rick Beato
  3blue1brown
  Smarter Every Day
  Bon Appetit
  Monty McKinnon
  Strange Parts
  Half as Interesting
  Produce Like A Pro
  Cinematography Database
  J M Archer
  Mix With The Masters
  Nerdwriter1
  Pensado's Place
  Peter Hurley
  Robert Scovill
  This Guy Edits
arathore
Adam Neely, 12 tone and Signals Music Studio are worth checking out as well, if you like Rick Beato
potta_coffee
Rick Beato's channel is pure gold. Probably my favorite channel of all time (so far). The only other recommendation you've made that I recognize is Smarter Every Day, that one's great too.
tasty_freeze
At first I got taken in by Rick Beato. He is terrifically knowledgeable about music theory and plays a number of instruments well.

But it didn't take long to notice that his presentations of music theory are not done to help the listener understand music theory. They are done to show how terrifically smart Rick Beato is. I suspect a lot of his fans know enough music theory that they nod their heads at the parts they understand and it makes them feel good that they can follow. But it is terrible if you actually want to learn.

There are much better youtubers that present music theory that is conducive to learning.

droptablemain
Rich Beato and Warren Huard's (Produce like a Pro) channels are absolute gold.
HocusLocus
Louis Rossman https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w Routinely shows bench scope detail of him doing circuit troubleshooting and replace of "no user serviceable parts" modern surface mount Apple stuff, but in the process shows good heart and entertaining moxie.

EEVBlog (David L. Jones) https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog Likes to take things apart and people send him things, but he is a great teacher and gives an amazing does of theory and design practice, and (very rare!) his electronics design knowledge spans part and practice back to the early 1970s.

bigclivedotcom https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom/videos Famous for his teardowns of the most ludircous and trashy designs, he's a maverick experimenter who plods along and pokes and prods and touches things he shouldn't, just like you would.

spectramax
I do not recommend Louis Rossman. Instead of learning, you’ll listen to endless hateful anti-Apple rants, deceitful personal attacks and unsubstantiated speculations of how terrible Apple engineers are - the whole community is cultish and they love listening to LR just about anything. I despise his channel and his popularity.
philpem
You could say similar about Dave Jones (EEVBlog) to be fair. His forum very much reflects his audience...
HocusLocus
Rossman has earned his grumpy and acerbic attitude in an old fashioned and honest way: routinely repairing expensive devices that were not meant to be repaired. Having to salvage working components from salvaged boards because the manufacturer decided not to supply them. His board working technique is first rate and he goes to great lengths to show you every step of the process. You learn things even if you were to mute the audio and play "Endless Sax Man" instead! How many other Youtube channels would survive that treatment?

Apple engineers are first rate also, but they've been dis-incentivized to do anything that would make affordable component level repair part of the life cycle, its parts distributed widely enough to be accessible, and technicians (factory trained or otherwise) capable, Unless this corporate approach FAILS spectacularly in the end, the human race is heading into a cul de sac of evolution by having its most essential technologies hanging by tiny threads. Some day Apple will decline and their newer technology will all be in the landfill... and Rossman will still be repairing last-generation boards.

But... by failing to make things repairable and removing whole customer care layers from their business plan, Apple has managed to bring prices down! That's a joke BTW

qwert12345887
Any channel which gives a high level view on various software tools i.e what was used before, what problem they were trying to solve, practical usecases, pros and cons , any new tools in that space.

Or ELI5 on various Enterprise stacks.

Dowwie
AvE Electronics is a hilarious, foul-mouthed Canadian who dismantles power tools and appliances and gives a thorough guided tour and quality assessment. His show is great fun.