Stuff Made Here: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "TWO Unpickable (?) Locks for Lock Picking Lawyer!", hN people recommend it, along with the Lock Picking Lawyer's response, as an engaging look at lock design and how clever mechanisms get bypassed.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2021–2022demoHN people recommend it, along with the Lock Picking Lawyer's response, as an engaging look at lock design and how clever mechanisms get bypassed.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2024–2026demoHN commenters recommend it as the physical-machine take on replicating handwriting, with plenty of explained iteration.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2020–2023demoHN admires the maker's engineering and cites it in accessibility discussions, especially for the limits of sensory resolution versus perception.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2021–2022demoRaised in lock-picking threads as a related attempt at an unpickable lock, and for novel anti-picking mechanisms.
- cited 3× 0 months 2022–2023demoHN mostly mentions it as an example of an extreme maker project, not as a recommendation.
Questions
Which Stuff Made Here video does Hacker News recommend most?
TWO Unpickable (?) Locks for Lock Picking Lawyer!: recommended in 3 different months by 3 HN users between 2021 and 2022.
Is this every Stuff Made Here 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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