Next Day Video: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Using Python to Code by Voice", recurs in threads about RSI, accessibility and voice coding as the go-to demo of a custom spoken command language.
- 12 HN recommenders 9 months 2013–2025talkRecurs in threads about RSI, accessibility and voice coding as the go-to demo of a custom spoken command language.
- 9 HN recommenders 9 months 2014–2022talkHN treats it as a must-watch classic for writing Pythonic code, though somewhat dated for modern Python.
- 8 HN recommenders 8 months 2012–2025talkHN returns to it repeatedly as the canonical argument for simplicity and against premature abstraction, and several commenters say it changed how they write code.
- 8 HN recommenders 8 months 2014–2023talkHN's standard reference when typing speed, ergonomics, or alternative input comes up, for its live demo and the open-source steno ecosystem.
- 7 HN recommenders 7 months 2012–2023talkHN commenters return to it as a worldview-shaping talk whose predictions about technology and startup ideas turned out to be prescient.
- 5 HN recommenders 6 months 2017–2021talkHN points to it as a practical way to separate business logic from I/O, which reduces mocking and underlies the functional core, imperative shell idea.
- 3 HN recommenders 4 months 2014–2024talkHN recommends it in literate programming threads as a rare look at applying the idea to a huge, complex codebase, though some find it meandering.
- 3 HN recommenders 2 months 2014–2023talkHN loves it as a funny, inspiring hobby project and calls it one of the best conference talks ever.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2015–2019talkCommenters point to it as the clearest explanation of Python's bytes versus Unicode model and the Unicode sandwich, which finally makes the confusion click.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2013–2016talkHN cites it as the best explanation of how Persona's provisioning and login work, and of why it used email addresses as identity.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2013–2026talkHN links it as the historical source for two projects: Hy's first announcement and the earliest recorded Docker talk.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2012–2024talkHN mostly cites it as evidence that YouTube was built on Python and as background on how it scaled.
Questions
Which Next Day Video video does Hacker News recommend most?
Using Python to Code by Voice: recommended in 9 different months by 12 HN users between 2013 and 2025.
Is this every Next Day Video 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.