Curious Droid: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "What Fossils Will We Leave Behind in 65 Million Years?", hN points to it in discussions of whether a past industrial civilization would leave detectable evidence.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2019–2021explainerHN points to it in discussions of whether a past industrial civilization would leave detectable evidence.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2019–2022explainerCited as the standard illustration of lost tacit knowledge and why old blueprints cannot be turned back into hardware.
- cited 3× 0 months 2019–2022explainerHN commenters cite it as evidence that vertical rocket landing was demonstrated long before SpaceX, with the DC-X as the main example.
Questions
Which Curious Droid video does Hacker News recommend most?
What Fossils Will We Leave Behind in 65 Million Years?: recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users between 2019 and 2021.
Is this every Curious Droid 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.