Stanford Online: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School", it is HN's standard answer to questions on creativity, finding problems and PARC history, valued for Kay's thinking about thinking.
- 3 HN recommenders 7 months 2018–2024lectureIt is HN's standard answer to questions on creativity, finding problems and PARC history, valued for Kay's thinking about thinking.
- 3 HN recommenders 6 months 2017–2024lectureFrequently suggested in Ask HN threads on finding ideas, creativity and why incumbents like Xerox missed what they invented.
- 1 HN recommenders 5 months 2017–2023lectureHN fans love it for Knuth's humor and for how he makes open math problems feel approachable, and it is often cited for details like dancing links and counting rectangle subdivisions.
- 3 HN recommenders 6 months 2020–2025talkHN points to it as the founders' own explanation of what Oxide is building and why, a frequent link whenever Oxide comes up.
- 3 HN recommenders 4 months 2013–2024talkHN refers to it as the main public description of Google's internal code analysis tooling, and as a precursor of ideas like LSP.
- 4 HN recommenders 3 months 2018–2024lectureHN founders recommend it as a must-watch on recognizing real product-market fit and avoiding solutions in search of problems.
- 2 HN recommenders 3 months 2020–2022talkHN recommends it as the best talk on concatenative languages and their mathematical properties.
- 5 HN recommenders 3 months 2017–2021lectureCited in floating-point threads as the main introduction to posits and unums as an alternative to IEEE floats.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2020–2021lectureHN commenters cite it as an informative talk from a leading researcher in reversible computing, mainly in threads on reversible computers and energy efficiency.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2017–2022talkCited in threads about search bias, election influence and big-tech data practices as the most comprehensive video of Epstein's research.
Questions
Which Stanford Online video does Hacker News recommend most?
How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School: recommended in 7 different months by 3 HN users between 2018 and 2024.
Is this every Stanford Online 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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