CuriousMarc: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon", hN people recommend the whole AGC restoration series as a deeply nerdy look at real Apollo-era hardware, including core rope memory.
- 8 HN recommenders 6 months 2019–2024documentaryHN people recommend the whole AGC restoration series as a deeply nerdy look at real Apollo-era hardware, including core rope memory.
- 4 HN recommenders 5 months 2020–2025demoHN commenters love it as a vivid demonstration of terminal history, explaining why tools like ed and the tty echo model work the way they do.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2020–2026explainerHN calls it one of the best explanations of how atomic clocks actually work.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2023–2026documentaryHN commenters recommend it as the deepest explanation of how AGC rope memory works and how it differs from core memory.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2018–2020demoLinked in Spacewar and vintage computing threads as a charming demo on real hardware.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2020–2023demoHN points to it as a fun, well-known example of line-printer art on early IBM hardware, and to the channel for vintage computing history.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2019–2020tutorialHN commenters point to this restoration series as a thorough explanation of how teletypes work at every level.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2018–2021demoPassed around in computing-history threads as a charming example of vintage hardware being coaxed into running FORTRAN.
Questions
Which CuriousMarc video does Hacker News recommend most?
Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon: recommended in 6 different months by 8 HN users between 2019 and 2024.
Is this every CuriousMarc 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.