ElectroBOOM: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Making a Full Bridge Rectifier", recommended as an enlightening and funny explanation of bridge rectifiers, often linked in power supply teardown threads.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2016–2021tutorialRecommended as an enlightening and funny explanation of bridge rectifiers, often linked in power supply teardown threads.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2020–2024explainerHN links it as an entertaining, in-depth rebuttal to 5G health fears from an electrical engineer.
- 4 HN recommenders 1 months 2021–2023explainerHN commenters recommend it as the more rigorous, polite and complete treatment of the Veritasium puzzle, though one dissents that the original misleads people.
Questions
Which ElectroBOOM video does Hacker News recommend most?
Making a Full Bridge Rectifier: recommended in 3 different months by 3 HN users between 2016 and 2021.
Is this every ElectroBOOM 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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