Engineering Explained: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Are Electric Cars Worse For The Environment? Myth Busted", hN commenters link it repeatedly as a clear, number-based rebuttal to the claim that EVs are worse for the climate than gas cars.
- 5 HN recommenders 5 months 2018–2023explainerHN commenters link it repeatedly as a clear, number-based rebuttal to the claim that EVs are worse for the climate than gas cars.
- 3 HN recommenders 4 months 2022–2024explainerHN uses it as the go-to explanation of why hydrogen internal combustion engines do not make sense.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2022–2023explainerCited as an accessible summary of evidence that corn ethanol is no better than gasoline for emissions.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2021–2025explainerHN commenters cite it in EV and emissions debates for its numbers on when replacing a car pays off.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2021–2022explainerHN cites it for reasonable estimates comparing the emissions of EVs, hybrids and ICE cars.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2020–2024explainerHN points to it as a solid analysis of EV towing range in truck and highway threads.
- 2 HN recommenders 1 months 2022–2023explainerCited in hydrogen threads as a clear explanation of why burning hydrogen in engines is a poor idea.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2020–2022explainerCited as a balanced engineering view of improvements in both ICE and EV technology.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2023–2024explainerHN points to it to explain how steer-by-wire is implemented and why variable steering ratio is its benefit.
Questions
Which Engineering Explained video does Hacker News recommend most?
Are Electric Cars Worse For The Environment? Myth Busted: recommended in 5 different months by 5 HN users between 2018 and 2023.
Is this every Engineering Explained 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.