Asianometry: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "The Extreme Engineering of ASML’s EUV Light Source", commenters repeatedly point to it whenever EUV, ASML or chip manufacturing comes up, as a clear and astonishing explanation of one of the hardest engineering problems in chipmaking.
- 11 HN recommenders 8 months 2022–2025explainerCommenters repeatedly point to it whenever EUV, ASML or chip manufacturing comes up, as a clear and astonishing explanation of one of the hardest engineering problems in chipmaking.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2023–2026explainerRecommended as a look at how Japan's monopolies were dismantled and how that shaped later industry.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2022–2023explainerHN commenters point to it as a clear explanation of why fabs aren't being built for older process nodes.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2023–2024documentaryHN commenters share it in chip fab and industrial espionage threads as a well-researched account of East Germany's failed microelectronics effort.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2022–2024explainerRecommended as a high-level, in-depth take on SMIC's 7nm progress and Asian chip manufacturing.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2021–2025explainerHN uses it as the source on India's early fab attempts, in threads about India's semiconductor ambitions.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2024–2026explainerRecommended as a good explanation of Japanese software industry struggles, though one commenter is unsure of its accuracy.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2022–2023explainerHN points to it as an excellent history of how Japan entered chips, including government-coordinated cooperation like the VLSI project.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2022–2024explainerHN commenters cite it as a concise answer to why Soviet computing failed, including reliance on reverse engineering and bureaucracy.
- cited 4× 0 months 2026documentaryHN cites it as an analogy for loss-leader pricing and market-share wars, for example in AI pricing.
Questions
Which Asianometry video does Hacker News recommend most?
The Extreme Engineering of ASML’s EUV Light Source: recommended in 8 different months by 11 HN users between 2022 and 2025.
Is this every Asianometry 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.
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