People Make Games: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.", cited heavily in Roblox threads as a damning investigation into child labor, exploitation, and weak moderation, and suggested viewing for parents.
- 9 HN recommenders 8 months 2021–2026documentaryCited heavily in Roblox threads as a damning investigation into child labor, exploitation, and weak moderation, and suggested viewing for parents.
- 5 HN recommenders 6 months 2022–2025documentaryHN recommends it as well-researched reporting on skin gambling, especially its effect on minors, in threads about gambling and Valve.
- 5 HN recommenders 5 months 2021–2026documentaryHN commenters cite it as the go-to evidence that Roblox exploits child developers, and parents are pointed to it before letting kids build games there.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2023–2024documentaryRecommended as well-researched, interview-based coverage of the Valve model and its failures, often linked in threads about Valve and flat organizations.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2022–2025documentaryRecommended as a mini documentary that explains VRChat's culture and contrasts it with Meta's Horizon Worlds.
Questions
Which People Make Games video does Hacker News recommend most?
Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.: recommended in 8 different months by 9 HN users between 2021 and 2026.
Is this every People Make Games 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.