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Ask HN: Your favorite YouTube channels?

328 points by stevenspasbo ↗ HN
I've been on a YouTube kick lately, and would like some recommendations for your favorite technology/programming/whatever channels. I'm a java developer if that help. Here are some of mine:

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

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

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

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

As you can tell, they're almost all Google talks.

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petercooper
https://www.youtube.com/user/Confreaks record high quality videos at many programming conferences each year and then share the recordings on YouTube. So much to enjoy here, especially if you're open source leaning, like most of the events they do.

O'Reilly puts up lots of good stuff at https://www.youtube.com/user/OreillyMedia although the webinar recording quality leaves a lot to be desired. A real random set of tech topics though and often something worth watching.

Entrepreneur - https://www.youtube.com/user/EntrepreneurOnline - usually puts up lots of short videos with a business tip in or something. Sometimes longer interviews. Usually worthwhile if a little superficial at times.

The guy who founded Something Awful has a ridiculously addictive channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/lowtaxico - he generally plays horrifically poorly produced indie games with his sidekick Shmorky and I could listen to their absurdist banter all day.

It's a bit of a mish mash but https://www.youtube.com/user/Bisqwit always blows my mind when he does his coding videos such as coding a NES emulator in C++11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71lli8MS8s

https://www.youtube.com/user/Shmee150 is awesome if you're into supercars. He's currently doing a tour of European supercar events and factories putting up a video each day.

Far Lands or Bust - https://www.youtube.com/user/kurtjmac - is a guy who started to walk towards the 'far lands' in a Minecraft maps years ago. He's something like 10% of the way but is still plodding along recording his progress. This is a real pilgrimage with all the highs and lows that entails.

MrThaiBox123 - https://www.youtube.com/user/MrThaibox123 - is a British IT expert who seems to have an endless supply of cash to buy gadgets, phones, and amazing computer setups.. and he does incredibly well recorded reviews of them. He also has a vlog at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrXrOof3iFRZYJGqqApH3Ng which I find interesting to see behind the scenes of someone's life on a daily basis.

dmunoz
Confreaks is great. The youtube page linked to is nicely organized, and looks to get more attention that my pointers, but three other resources are

* The Confreaks homepage at http://confreaks.com/

* The Confreaks listing by conference at http://confreaks.com/events

* The list of recently added videos at http://confreaks.com/videos

The last one is a bit hidden, as you get to it by clicking on Search on the main page

Houshalter
The Gaming Garbage Channel is great. I didn't realize the barrier for making 3d games was so low. What are they using to make these abominations?
mcescalante
I don't think they're making all of these games, just playing a lot of terrible ones. It's hilarious either way, though
Houshalter
After watching some more they appear to be getting them all from yoyogames which is like the youtube or imgur of Game Maker games. There are some very good indie games published there but also a lot of crap.
Patrick_Devine
I've been trying to learn how to play Chess properly lately, so the two channels I'm subscribed to are:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork https://www.youtube.com/user/STLChessClub

ChessNetwork is run by a national master named Jerry who is absolutely hilarious.

laxatives
Jerry's blitz tournament videos are amazing. There are few videos on youtube that can hold me at the edge of my seat for 20 minutes, but he does it every time.
ixwt
Jerry also streams on twitch[0] from time to time. It's very rarely, but he plays with viewers, does puzzles, does blitz tournaments on chesscube.

If you create an account on twitch, you can have it email you when he starts streaming. Because of the amount of people that get that email though (1000+, that's just the people that tend to watch him), it normally doesn't arrive til after he's been streaming for a while.

He also did live commentary on the Anand Carlsen games through twitch.

[0] http://www.twitch.tv/chessnetwork

mkhattab
https://www.youtube.com/user/NextDayVideo --- Mostly Python talks at conferences, meet ups and other venues

https://www.youtube.com/user/Confreaks --- Like above, but mostly Ruby

https://www.youtube.com/user/emacsrocks --- Emacs Rocks (not updated frequently)

https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog --- Electronics Engineering Video blog. This is an excellent resource for electronics hobbyists. This doesn't cover programming much, unless it's micro controller firmware or FPGA programming.

ausjke
EEVblog is indeed very useful
Goosey
Not exactly tech/programming channels, but really good brain snack food...

https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce --- IMHO the best youtube channel in existence. Every video is a rabbit hole of interesting questions and tangents with fantastic presentation and weirdly uplifting closing points.

https://www.youtube.com/user/pbsideachannel --- Smart thought provoking videos that use internet memes, gaming, anime, and such as the launch off points.

https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium --- Well presented science videos with a focus on the joy of learning.

theboss
I follow two youtube channels very closely and I think HN should check them out. Both deal with Powerlifting. These two youtube channels are particularly interesting because they both follow two guys who work really really hard.

The first is Ben Rice's: https://www.youtube.com/user/Rev198 The next is Pete Rubish: https://www.youtube.com/user/PeteRubish1

These guys are strong as hell and watching them continuously work hard to get such small returns (5-10 lbs) is really motivating for me.

gkya
- Art of the Problem, provides introductory videos on Information theory, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCotwjyJnb-4KW7bmsOoLfkg

- Fosdem talks, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9NuJImUbaSNKiwF2bdSfAw

- Minimalist Programming with jekor, stuff on haskell, like a teardown of Pandoc, implementation of redo, Minimalist Programming with jekor

- Veritasium, mainly physics, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA

- Vi Hart, the best thing about mathematics that's online, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOGeU-1Fig3rrDjhm9Zs_wg

- Brady Haran's channels on various scientific topics, http://www.bradyharan.com/

pepon
1Veritasium, SmarterEveryDay
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