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Ask HN: What's the coolest YouTube channel you've found in the past month?

61 points by jcims ↗ HN
I'm essentially stuck at home tonight. Plenty of other more productive things I could be doing, but what are some nice YouTube channels you've found recently that could use a little HN hug?

For my part:

https://www.youtube.com/c/BreakingTaps

Breaking Taps - 21k subs - Originally found via share from Ben Krasnow, definitely worth it. Tinkerer/fabricobbler that celebrates the learning.

And these are ones I've been watching for a while but still have relatively low sub count.

https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcoReps

Marco Reps - 146k subs (ok, lowish) - Another tinkerer, although mostly in high-precision lab equipment and various builds of interesting projects. Also a very funny dude.

https://www.youtube.com/c/OonaR%C3%A4is%C3%A4nen

Oona Räisänen aka windytan - 2100 subs - She's had a few articles posted here, super creative RF/audio hacker/tinkerer.

https://www.youtube.com/c/EdgePrecision

Edge Precision - 56k subs - One of my favorite machining channels, zero nonsense, tons of practical advice that I'll never use.

https://www.youtube.com/user/NACImageTechnology

NAC Image Technology - 650 subs - Commercial account of high speed cameras, just eye candy.

https://www.youtube.com/user/corningmuseumofglass

Corning Museum of Glass - 150k subs - Fairly prolific publisher of guest artists creating pretty amazing glassware.

https://www.youtube.com/c/eastcoastish

Eastcoastish - 3.8k subs - Impeccably documented mods and builds of a variety of small displacement motorcycles (Honda Monkey, CT70, etc)

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riskable
Well if you're just bored and want to see something neat I made a video the other day about how I added an infrared receiver to my 3D printed keyboard (with 3D printed magnetic separation switches and 3D printed stabilizers). I also go over how I wrote a bit of the (Rust) firmware for it: https://youtu.be/mX1jJfRtEPc

Eventually I'll probably share the whole kit & kaboodle with Hacker News. Have to make a proper writeup though (because people are impatient and won't sit through dozens of videos to get the whole story from the beginning haha)

cbsks
Jamie Mantzel is a guy living on an island off the grid in Central America. He’s a little kooky, but his videos are super interesting. He has lots of videos of his progress building solar powered boats and houses.

https://youtube.com/user/JMEMantzel

alexmingoia
Heron’s Bonsai: https://youtube.com/c/HeronsBonsaiUK
omosubi
They must be advertising cause I watched a couple videos about reforestation and immediately i had heron's bonsai all over my recommendations
akudha
I feel sad when they chop off the main root and reduce what would be a majestic, huge tree to the size of a small bottle. Same feeling when breeders make super tiny dogs, just because they look cute (these dogs have tons of health issues).

Feels perverse to me

superasn
There is an app called Neverthink which has a section called random cool videos. I think you can find a lot of cool new channels via it.
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j4yav
Tasting History is great, amiable guy who posts videos of cooking ancient and very old recipes, and talks about the history of each.
dimator
Graham Hutton is a haskell expert and teacher, and he is uploading a full course load of haskell lectures:

https://youtube.com/channel/UCBDp7ydYTHi1dh4Gnf3VTPA

I believe these also correspond with an actual course, although I can't find a link.

miguendes
Nice! I'm planning on learning haskell to learn more about FP and this might be useful. I wish problems sets were released as well. But having the lectures is already a great stuff. I can always fallback to exercism.io for practice.
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brailsafe
I've really been enjoying James Hoffman https://youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ

Aamon Animations - https://youtube.com/channel/UCo4au6lRX4-_gIczBneEZWA (He's doing some freaky lovecrafty renditions of people like Jordan Peterson)

jcims
Checking out Hoffman now, fantastic little episode on the history of espresso!
brailsafe
Even if you don't have a strong interest in coffee, I just find his voice and presentation style quite relaxing
anotheryou
Contraption Collection (41.4K): guy engineering balisong/butterfly scissors. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC66lPJ8u2N1i2Bh_TMaWagg

David Bennett Piano (356K). Music theory (or selected phenomena ofi t at lesat) with examples. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz2iUx-Imr6HgDC3zAFpjOw

DarkAero, Inc (29.7K): Three brothers inventing an airplane. Carbon fiber, planned to sell as a kit so it all has to become production ready. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPUZCBNrduwUsw_MTW-sDxw

saVRee (74.4K). More engineering explained in detail. Sadly very very slow, speed up the vids :). https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCosExgfjj-DhMJXnQd2Y4gA

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Cheating a bit (know them for longer, but they have to be underhyped despite their size):

Subject Zero Science (193K): super well produced bleeding edge science explained. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXRbi80k0_vcIfgpOSerTg

The Thought Emporium (746K): Bio hacking and DNA editing. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5vCi3jPJdURZwAOO_FNfQ

AtlasBarfed
A lot of what I see on youtube with a small kid isn't necessarily about the "good" stuff I've found, but highlights formats that would vastly benefit from better production.

There's a LOT of "play with X, do activity Y, do this cool thing Z" videos that my kiddo loves to watch while also playing, but could be taken to the next level EASILY.

The fact that PBS and mainstream kids networks don't do things like this, or a more professional production network, is strange to me.

Likely professional production is poison pilled by preassumptions of previous programming paradigms, or the sponsorship fundamentally ruins it.

jaidan
The Post Apocalyptic Inventor (No it's not that prepper!)

This German gentleman rescues broken stuff from the scrap yard and repairs it. On this video [0] he upgrades a basic welder to increase the duty cycle. I specifically like the way he describes his upgrades using diagrams and basic explanations. Link to his channel at [1].

[0] Welder Video https://odysee.com/@ThePostApocalypticInventor:e/welder-expe... --or-- https://youtu.be/yzOr1bnArVI

[1] Channel https://odysee.com/@ThePostApocalypticInventor:e --or-- https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePostApocalypticInventor/feature...