The Go Programming Language: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Hacking with Andrew and Brad: tip.golang.org", hN people point to it as a rare chance to watch skilled developers write real code live, pair programming and explaining as they go.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2019–2024demoHN people point to it as a rare chance to watch skilled developers write real code live, pair programming and explaining as they go.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2017–2025talkCited as the talk that introduced Upspin, and called fascinating and really good by commenters.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2016–2026talkHN treats it as the canonical source for Go proverbs, quoted in debates about dependencies, concurrency and simplicity.
Questions
Which The Go Programming Language video does Hacker News recommend most?
Hacking with Andrew and Brad: tip.golang.org: recommended in 4 different months by 4 HN users between 2019 and 2024.
Is this every The Go Programming Language 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.