Black Hat: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Behind the Scenes of iOS Security", hN repeatedly recommends it as the deepest public look at how iCloud Keychain and Apple's device and cloud security are designed.
- 9 HN recommenders 11 months 2016–2026talkHN repeatedly recommends it as the deepest public look at how iCloud Keychain and Apple's device and cloud security are designed.
- 9 HN recommenders 8 months 2017–2022talkHN recommends it as a clever, entertaining and easy-to-follow talk on finding hidden x86 instructions with the Sandsifter tool.
- 1 HN recommenders 6 months 2014–2023talkCited over and over as an important talk, with commenters borrowing its ideas on cheap surveillance, offense-favoring security and liability.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2016–2019talkRecommended as a non-technical, concrete case study of how metadata and phone records expose covert operations.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2018–2025talkHN people cite it to show even technical users fall for phishing and that hardware security keys are the real fix.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2019–2022talkRecommended as a rare insider look at Apple's security architecture and the reasoning behind its hardware choices.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2018–2021talkCited in hardware-trust and supply-chain threads as a concrete, startling demonstration of chip-level backdoors.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2017–2024talkPointed to as a true-crime story of cybercrime investigation, usually in passing.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2017–2022talkCited in discussions of CPU hidden features, Intel's security failures and SMM malware as a concrete example of a forgotten processor feature being exploited.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2014–2019talkHN uses it as the standard reference for why USB devices are dangerous beyond ordinary viruses.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2016–2017talkMostly cited as the source of the Krebs critique of Cloudflare and Prince's onstage response, which commenters debate.
Questions
Which Black Hat video does Hacker News recommend most?
Behind the Scenes of iOS Security: recommended in 11 different months by 9 HN users between 2016 and 2026.
Is this every Black Hat 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.