suckerpinch: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!", praised as a brilliant, deadpan and inventive hardware hack, and a good starting point for Tom7's videos.
- 12 HN recommenders 12 months 2018–2025talkPraised as a brilliant, deadpan and inventive hardware hack, and a good starting point for Tom7's videos.
- 12 HN recommenders 9 months 2022–2025demoHN treats it as a favorite example of silly but educational computer science, recommended often when threads touch odd storage hacks.
- 9 HN recommenders 10 months 2015–2025demoLoved on HN as a hilarious, brilliant example of hacker-academic work and cited whenever game-playing AI or fuzzing comes up.
- 8 HN recommenders 7 months 2018–2023talkHN fans call it a favorite engineering video and a showcase of Tom7's masterpiece-level, playful hacking.
- 7 HN recommenders 7 months 2020–2025demoHN fans hold it up as a favorite among his videos and an example of gloriously bonkers technical art, and cite it in floating-point discussions.
- 8 HN recommenders 6 months 2019–2026explainerHN commenters call it a must-watch for its deadpan, absurdly elaborate engineering and cite it for ideas like diluting strong engines with random moves.
- 5 HN recommenders 4 months 2021–2026comedy videoTom7 is an HN favorite, and this video is praised as hilarious, educational silly ML that keeps getting better.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2020–2023explainerHN recommends it as a typical example of Tom7's technically astounding and playful videos.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2013–2021comedy videoHN likes it as a funny, entertaining presentation, frequently linked in threads on NP-hardness of games and NES automation.
- 4 HN recommenders 3 months 2024–2026talkHN readers point to it as an example of Tom7's ridiculous-but-brilliant programming projects, here tied to license parody and typesetting.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2023–2024explainerCited as a fun, unconventional example of neural networks built from floating point error.
Questions
Which suckerpinch video does Hacker News recommend most?
Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!: recommended in 12 different months by 12 HN users between 2018 and 2025.
Is this every suckerpinch 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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