minutephysics: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Computer Color is Broken", hN cites it as the accessible go-to explanation of gamma and color blending errors in image programs.
- 4 HN recommenders 5 months 2015–2026explainerHN cites it as the accessible go-to explanation of gamma and color blending errors in image programs.
- 8 HN recommenders 5 months 2019–2024explainerRepeatedly recommended as the most accessible explanation of Bell's inequality, reducing it to a simple counting problem.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2024–2026explainerHN links it whenever the Moon's orbit comes up, as a concise explanation of why the Moon always curves toward the Sun.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2014–2025explainerHN commenters link it as a quick, intuitive explanation of angular momentum and why spinning clumps of matter flatten.
- 2 HN recommenders 3 months 2015–2026explainerCommenters link it as a quick, clear explanation of why twelve notes only approximate simple ratios.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2019–2023explainerHN commenters point to it as a clear, approachable explanation of Shor's algorithm and what quantum computers actually do.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2018–2021explainerHN commenters recommend it as an easy-to-digest explanation of time dilation and the twin paradox.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2016–2024explainerHN people link it as a quick, clear answer to the question of bicycle stability, including in threads on bike mathematics.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2020–2022explainerLinked as the clearest technical explainer of differential privacy and the census, and of why aggregate data can still compromise privacy.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2020–2025explainerLinked as a quick, clear primer when black hole energy and efficiency come up.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2017–2022explainerHN people link it as a short, accessible summary of Judea Pearl-style causal inference when someone repeats that correlation cannot imply causation.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2019–2023explainerHN links it as the quick explanation of why you cannot just throw things into the Sun.
- cited 3× 0 months 2018–2023explainerHN cites it as a quick illustration of countersteering, the idea that you must first turn the opposite way to lean into a turn.
Questions
Which minutephysics video does Hacker News recommend most?
Computer Color is Broken: recommended in 5 different months by 4 HN users between 2015 and 2026.
Is this every minutephysics 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.