NANOG: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Tutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking", commenters call it an invaluable, approachable way to learn how optical networking actually works.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2017–2018tutorialCommenters call it an invaluable, approachable way to learn how optical networking actually works.
- 3 HN recommenders 2 months 2015–2016talkCited as real operator data that IPv6 is faster than IPv4 and that large networks are already going IPv6-only.
- cited 10× 0 months 2022–2026talkCited as the primary source for T-Mobile US running IPv6-only mobile clients in IPv6 adoption debates.
Questions
Which NANOG video does Hacker News recommend most?
Tutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking: recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users between 2017 and 2018.
Is this every NANOG 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.