HACKER Q&A
📣 notoriousarun

What are your favourite YouTube channels to learn stuff?


Been asked several times but interested to see references to more recent channels.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609584

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20385679

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24671019

Has any youtube video ever truly changed your perspective on life or technology? Post them please.


  👤 BitwiseFool Accepted Answer ✓
I invite you to checkout this older Hacker News post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645269

There's a wealth of channels in the comments to explore.


👤 markus_zhang
Cᐩᐩ Weekly With Jason Turner https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxHAlbZQNFU2LgEtiqd2Maw

Game Engine series (He uses C++ for engine and C# for editor so I get to learn both) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU0ZLgIv87jlqS6G58DKPyg

HowTo with GEO (handyman tutorials) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7vstLCUimxLJ5M5F0k_DQg

Learnelectronics https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSRTiJhBE5GsP-1fCbpFRWg

LockpickingLawyer (he picks a LOT of locks but be warned there are actually not many tutorials) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ

Moshix (Mainframe veteran) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR1ajTWGiUtiAv8X-hpBY7w

My self reliance (guy builded and building himself a great cabin in Ontario Canada, again not many tutorials) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIMXKin1fXXCeq2UJePJEog

Project Farm (for comparing qualities of same tools) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2rzsm1Qi6N1X-wuOg_p0Ng

R&U videos (mostly Syrian War from viewpoints of both sides, could be BLOODY and NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9D9q5JOOsIVIaYpDtcGZCQ

Ric (Pixel Arts) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTjPQWeqxGI9KAD_X6e8BAQ

Ryan Laley (UE development tutorials) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsS5i15vvUbwfr_1JdRKCAA

Ryan Ries (Game engine programming using C from scratch) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKLEzyrhO8Qj-Dqk-xjF3ew

ThamesTV (for vintage UK TV programs, maybe not that old actually, many from 70s and 80s) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChXQL4MqC4ihSVg3SFiszDg

The engineering mindset (electronics tutorials) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0fGHsCEzGig-rSzkfCjMw

Ben Eater (electronics in depth) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA

Bitwise (mostly about compiler theory stuffs) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCguWV1bZg1QiWbY32vGnOLw

Creel (X64 Assembly tutorials) https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatsACreel/videos

Dmitry Soshnikov (Compiler theory and GC) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC15UOu9F157NAXGL9dHc4TQ

dumptruck_ds (Quake mapping using TrenchBroom, a modern Quake Engine map editor) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF502yOYr_olPaw6xgnYmaQ

FamTrinli (Make 16 small games with C++/SFML, great introductory projects) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC7qpnId5RIQruKDJOt2exw

javidx9 (Game programming from scratch, very interesting and detailed tutorials) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-yuWVUplUJZvieEligKBkA

Low Level Dev (as channel name indicated) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRWXAQsN5S3FPDHY4Ttq1Xg

Mathew Wadstein (UE Engine programming tutorials) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOVfF7PfLbRdVEm0hONTrNQ

MIT missing semester https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuXy5tCgEninup9cGplbiFw

Quake Builder (another Quake mapping channel, not many videos but quality is good) https://www.youtube.com/user/mikedm92/videos

Retro Game Mechanics explained https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwRqWnW5ZkVaP_lZF7caZ-g

Samy Kamkar (hardware hacking) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4m2G6T18_JcjwxwtwKJijw

The Cherno (great C++ game programming videos, covers a lot of grounds) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-W1KE9EYfdxhL6S4twUNw

Trains21 (How trains work) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo5WtRol-bopQmsWfXBa8kQ

CMU Database Group (as name indicated) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA

code_report (A meetup channel with extensive materials e.g. a full read on SICP) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1kBxkk2bcG78YBX7LMl9pQ

CopperSpice (C++ channel, more in-depth stuffs I think) https://www.youtube.com/c/CopperSpice/videos