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Ask HN: Who are your favorite tech youtubers

by mr_o47 on 4/24/24, 1:49 AM with 45 comments

• by SilverCode on 4/24/24, 12:30 PM

  Nir Lichtman - Sub 10 min videos on mostly C and Assembly programming

  Low Level Learning - Sub 10 min videos with a leaning towards the security aspect of code

  Ben Eater - Making a computer from scratch

  Fireship - 100 seconds of X to help me keep up with whatever tech stack my colleagues are proposing this week

  IppSec - Security and Hacking

  Jacob Sorber - Various programming topics, mostly around C

  javidx9 - Game programming topics, most writing old-school game engines

  Low Byte Productions - Long form videos (1+ hours) on low level topics

  Nathan Baggs - Hacks old games to get them working again

  The Coding Train - Various fun programming topics mostly around visualization and graphics, done in the format of a kids program

  TJ DeVries - Teaches you how to exit vim, and other vim stuff

  typecraft - Neovim and tmux tutorials, plugins, configurations etc

• by RedlineTriad on 4/24/24, 2:52 PM

  Some of my favorites are:

  Acerola, GPU and shader programming: https://www.youtube.com/@Acerola_t

  Sebastian Lague, various mostly visual algorithms for games: https://www.youtube.com/@SebastianLague

  Freya Holmér, beautiful game dev related math: https://www.youtube.com/@acegikmo

  pannenkoek2012, how Mario 64 limitations create the most interesting bugs: https://www.youtube.com/@pannenkoek2012

  Jon Gjengset, some of the most in-depth rust content: https://www.youtube.com/@jonhoo

  AngeTheGreat, physics engine game dev including sound simulation: https://www.youtube.com/@AngeTheGreat

  fasterthanlime, diverse, mostly rust content: https://www.youtube.com/@fasterthanlime

  Bisqwit, retro programming: https://www.youtube.com/@Bisqwit

  CodeParade, higher dimensional and fractal game dev: https://www.youtube.com/@CodeParade

  suckerpinch, code that should not be though of, let alone executed: https://www.youtube.com/@tom7

  SimonDev, game dev, performance focused, video quality varies: https://www.youtube.com/@simondev758

  And many mentioned by SilverCode

• by llmblockchain on 4/24/24, 11:04 AM

  None.

  Youtubers tend to fall into a few buckets.

  1. Watch me build Minecraft in five minutes (all game devlogs, etc).

  2. Watch me read an article and talk about it for 30 minutes (t3.gg, primeagen, etc).

  3. Watch me build my dream game, part three (last uploaded three years ago).

  4. Watch my shorts with fast jump cuts, large text and no substance.

• by impish9208 on 4/24/24, 12:55 PM

  I hate the new trend where they make ridiculous faces on the thumbnails. I know they’re doing it because it must be increasing engagement, but it’s so annoying.

• by tanseydavid on 4/24/24, 4:18 PM

  Youtube channel "bigclivedotcom" does teardowns of consumer electronic crap from AliBaba, Amazon etc. with a soothing British accent and wit.

• by al_borland on 4/24/24, 12:07 PM

  Dave's Garage is pretty interesting. He worked at Microsoft and wrote things like the Task Manager and Zip folders. He tells old stories and gives the inside scoop on how some of those things came to be.

• by reportgunner on 4/24/24, 10:49 AM

  None, I feel like all of them are experts in marketing, not experts in tech.

  Louis Rossmann is alright though I like him even though I don't watch him anymore.

• by jpsouth on 4/24/24, 4:06 PM

  John Hammond - Cyber security/ethical hacking. He explains what he's doing well enough for even someone like me, with very little cybersec knowledge, to follow along and understand.

  Someone else also commented Nathan Baggs, also a great explainer of what he's doing (and he hacks some fantastic old school games too).

• by wifijammer on 4/24/24, 10:54 PM

  More on the entertainment side than educational (but if you understand engineering/coding you would highly appreciate the work that goes into some of these videos)

  https://www.youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere

  https://www.youtube.com/c/michaelreeves

  https://www.youtube.com/@MarkRober

  https://youtube.com/c/theHacksmith

• by gnatman on 4/24/24, 5:19 PM

  @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER - experiments with circuit bending, synths, and other instruments

  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCafxR2HWJRmMfSdyZXvZMTw

• by slowfox on 4/24/24, 1:21 PM

  Outstanding, not only because they are great teachers but, above all, because I percieve them as incredibly likeable personalities:

  1. Kevin Powell (Kevin Powell) - CSS

  2. Daniel Schiffmann (The Coding Train) - Creative Coding

• by ohthatsnotright on 4/24/24, 6:21 PM

  Quite a few of mine are already mentioned but if you're into retro-computers or restoration, I find Usagi Electric to be an incredible wealth of knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/@UsagiElectric

  Also enjoy https://www.youtube.com/@Computerphile for more in depth videos

• by reportgunner on 4/26/24, 11:21 AM

  I gotta mention styropyro[0] even though he doesn't deal with computers at all - his channel is all about crazy overpowered lasers and sometimes some crazy chemistry.

  [0] https://www.youtube.com/@styropyro

• by ezekg on 4/24/24, 3:22 PM

  One of my favorites is Optimum: https://www.youtube.com/@optimumtech. Lots of gnarly PC builds. I cloned his negative pressure Ghost S1 SFFPC build (but with a deshrouded Sapphire RX 5700 XT+ and Ryzen 3700x) and I absolutely love it.

• by incomingpain on 4/24/24, 11:55 AM

  Network Chuck

  Jeff Geerling

  Ippsec

  Linus Tech Tips

  Louis Rossman kinda.

  3d printing nerd

  cnc kitchen

  makers muse

  zack freedman

  tech ingredients

  marques brownlee

  adam savage tested

  There's probably a bunch more, but honestly kind of watching more gun related stuff lately. Garand thumb, kentucky ballistics, etc.

• by tmtvl on 4/25/24, 6:12 PM

  Casey Muratori and Will Byrd, though I'm not that big on tech youtubers. Strange Loop was also pretty great and I can't believe I have to say 'was' there, but so it goes.

• by iamflimflam1 on 4/24/24, 5:00 PM

  Me! I actually quite enjoy watching my own videos (some of them anyway…)

  https://www.youtube.com/atomic14

• by ruslan on 4/24/24, 9:29 PM

  I vote for Ben Eater and for a number of others 8-bit guys.

• by okdood64 on 4/24/24, 2:16 PM

  Asianometry for the background and history of industry; with a particular focus on semiconductors.

• by leke on 4/25/24, 11:20 AM

  ThePrimeTime is an entertaining and interesting coder.

• by mindwork on 4/24/24, 10:17 PM

  Recently discovered ThePrimeagen videos on youtube https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen

  From my existing subscriptions:

  - Just Another CTO https://www.youtube.com/@justanothercto

  - Techno Tim https://www.youtube.com/@TechnoTim

  - Wolfgang's Channel https://www.youtube.com/@WolfgangsChannel

  - TechWorld with Nana https://www.youtube.com/@TechWorldwithNana

• by b20000 on 4/24/24, 6:32 PM

  The Tech Lead

• by tiew9Vii on 4/24/24, 11:49 AM

  I discovered “Developer Voices” recently https://youtube.com/@DeveloperVoices.

  It’s more a podcast style channel, with a different guest on each episode with experience in a different area of tech/computer science they discuss.

  No memes, no clickbait, no how to be a tech lead just mixed varied interesting computer science content/topics.

  Agree with the other posters though, generally tech channels are junk full of charlatans.

• by AstmmetryAware on 4/25/24, 5:01 PM

  Mental Outlaw for sure.

• by Tomte on 4/24/24, 7:00 PM

  Technology Connections

• by 1ilit on 4/24/24, 6:12 PM

  have to add tsoding to the already mentioned channels

• by glouwbug on 4/24/24, 3:13 PM

  Bisqwit

• by RockRobotRock on 4/24/24, 6:52 PM

  Cathode Ray Dude

• by 082349872349872 on 4/24/24, 6:19 AM

  If you like tech, and like learning, I would suggest investing time with more information-dense media than video.