Technology Connextras: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "E-Ink for Productivity: An Introduction", hN recommends it, with its companion video, as an honest hands-on account of e-ink devices as monitors, including their slow software and limits.
- 4 HN recommenders 5 months 2020–2024demoHN recommends it, with its companion video, as an honest hands-on account of e-ink devices as monitors, including their slow software and limits.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2022–2026explainerHN points to it whenever analog versus digital clocks come up, as an idea that changed how commenters think about time perception.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2020–2024commentaryCited in e-ink display threads as a long-term review of using e-ink as a monitor.
- cited 3× 0 months 2023–2026explainerCited as the data-backed source for the claim that electric and induction stoves boil water as fast as or faster than gas.
Questions
Which Technology Connextras video does Hacker News recommend most?
E-Ink for Productivity: An Introduction: recommended in 5 different months by 4 HN users between 2020 and 2024.
Is this every Technology Connextras 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.