minutephysics: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Computer Color is Broken", hN cites it as the accessible go-to explanation of gamma and color blending errors in image programs.
- explainer recommended in 5 different months by 4 HN users, 2015–2026HN cites it as the accessible go-to explanation of gamma and color blending errors in image programs.
- explainer recommended in 5 different months by 8 HN users, 2019–2024Repeatedly recommended as the most accessible explanation of Bell's inequality, reducing it to a simple counting problem.
- explainer recommended in 4 different months by 4 HN users, 2024–2026HN links it whenever the Moon's orbit comes up, as a concise explanation of why the Moon always curves toward the Sun.
- explainer recommended in 3 different months by 3 HN users, 2014–2025HN commenters link it as a quick, intuitive explanation of angular momentum and why spinning clumps of matter flatten.
- explainer recommended in 3 different months by 2 HN users, 2015–2026Commenters link it as a quick, clear explanation of why twelve notes only approximate simple ratios.
- explainer recommended in 3 different months by 3 HN users, 2019–2023HN commenters point to it as a clear, approachable explanation of Shor's algorithm and what quantum computers actually do.
- explainer recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users, 2018–2021HN commenters recommend it as an easy-to-digest explanation of time dilation and the twin paradox.
- explainer recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users, 2016–2024HN people link it as a quick, clear answer to the question of bicycle stability, including in threads on bike mathematics.
- explainer recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users, 2020–2022Linked as the clearest technical explainer of differential privacy and the census, and of why aggregate data can still compromise privacy.
- explainer recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users, 2020–2025Linked as a quick, clear primer when black hole energy and efficiency come up.
- explainer recommended in 1 different month by 1 HN user, 2017–2022HN people link it as a short, accessible summary of Judea Pearl-style causal inference when someone repeats that correlation cannot imply causation.
- explainer recommended in 1 different month by 1 HN user, 2019–2023HN links it as the quick explanation of why you cannot just throw things into the Sun.
- explainer cited on HN 3 times, 2018–2023HN cites it as a quick illustration of countersteering, the idea that you must first turn the opposite way to lean into a turn.
Questions
Which minutephysics video does Hacker News recommend most?
Computer Color is Broken: recommended in 5 different months by 4 HN users between 2015 and 2026.
Is this every minutephysics 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.