Dropout: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Why Tipping Should Be Banned - Adam Ruins Everything", recommended in tipping threads as a fast, entertaining, sourced case against tipping culture.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2015–2020explainerRecommended in tipping threads as a fast, entertaining, sourced case against tipping culture.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2017–2021comedy videoShared in dog-breeding threads as a snappy summary of the genetic-diversity problem.
- 1 HN recommenders 2 months 2019–2024comedy videoHN uses it as shorthand for the argument that car dominance was manufactured by deliberate propaganda.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2017–2019comedy videoUsed as a pop-culture shorthand explanation for the political origins of drug laws.
- cited 7× 0 months 2011–2020comedy videoHN commenters cite it as the go-to parody of startup pitch culture whenever buzzword-heavy startups come up.
Questions
Which Dropout video does Hacker News recommend most?
Why Tipping Should Be Banned - Adam Ruins Everything: recommended in 4 different months by 4 HN users between 2015 and 2020.
Is this every Dropout 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.