suckerpinch: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!", praised as a brilliant, deadpan and inventive hardware hack, and a good starting point for Tom7's videos.
- talk recommended in 12 different months by 12 HN users, 2018–2025Praised as a brilliant, deadpan and inventive hardware hack, and a good starting point for Tom7's videos.
- demo recommended in 9 different months by 12 HN users, 2022–2025HN treats it as a favorite example of silly but educational computer science, recommended often when threads touch odd storage hacks.
- demo recommended in 10 different months by 9 HN users, 2015–2025Loved on HN as a hilarious, brilliant example of hacker-academic work and cited whenever game-playing AI or fuzzing comes up.
- talk recommended in 7 different months by 8 HN users, 2018–2023HN fans call it a favorite engineering video and a showcase of Tom7's masterpiece-level, playful hacking.
- demo recommended in 7 different months by 7 HN users, 2020–2025HN fans hold it up as a favorite among his videos and an example of gloriously bonkers technical art, and cite it in floating-point discussions.
- explainer recommended in 6 different months by 8 HN users, 2019–2026HN commenters call it a must-watch for its deadpan, absurdly elaborate engineering and cite it for ideas like diluting strong engines with random moves.
- comedy video recommended in 4 different months by 5 HN users, 2021–2026Tom7 is an HN favorite, and this video is praised as hilarious, educational silly ML that keeps getting better.
- explainer recommended in 3 different months by 3 HN users, 2020–2023HN recommends it as a typical example of Tom7's technically astounding and playful videos.
- comedy video recommended in 3 different months by 3 HN users, 2013–2021HN likes it as a funny, entertaining presentation, frequently linked in threads on NP-hardness of games and NES automation.
- talk recommended in 3 different months by 4 HN users, 2024–2026HN readers point to it as an example of Tom7's ridiculous-but-brilliant programming projects, here tied to license parody and typesetting.
- explainer recommended in 1 different month by 1 HN user, 2023–2024Cited as a fun, unconventional example of neural networks built from floating point error.
Questions
Which suckerpinch video does Hacker News recommend most?
Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!: recommended in 12 different months by 12 HN users between 2018 and 2025.
Is this every suckerpinch 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.