AI Council: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Bryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features compute", hN recommends Cantrill talks generally for their mix of industry history, technical depth and entertaining delivery, and this one is a favorite for storage and data integrity threads.
- 4 HN recommenders 5 months 2014–2026talkHN recommends Cantrill talks generally for their mix of industry history, technical depth and entertaining delivery, and this one is a favorite for storage and data integrity threads.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2014–2017talkRecommended as a more approachable introduction to category theory than the more formal lecture series people often start with.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2014–2018talkCited in Scala debates as an insider's critique that persuaded many the language's problems were deep.
Questions
Which AI Council video does Hacker News recommend most?
Bryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features compute: recommended in 5 different months by 4 HN users between 2014 and 2026.
Is this every AI Council video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
Video list and Hacker News comment labels from HackerTube (prompted by @karpathy), released under ODC-By 1.0, built on the open-index/hacker-news archive. Hacker News data is provided by Y Combinator; comments remain the work of their authors. Video titles, channel names and thumbnails belong to their creators and are shown via YouTube. HackerTube Watch is an unofficial edition. Data export of 2026-10-31.