NileRed: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Making uranium glass", hN recommends it as an informative and entertaining look at how uranium glass is actually made.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2020–2024demoHN recommends it as an informative and entertaining look at how uranium glass is actually made.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2023–2024demoHN mentions it as a fascinating example of chemistry persistence and as something people learned from, such as discovering purple gold exists.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2020–2021demoLinked as the go-to hands-on demonstration of how transparent wood is made and why scaling it to large pieces is hard.
Questions
Which NileRed video does Hacker News recommend most?
Making uranium glass: recommended in 1 different months by 1 HN users between 2020 and 2024.
Is this every NileRed 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.
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