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Systems & security (other): videos Hacker News recommends
Other systems topics: miscellaneous infrastructure, enterprise computing, IT administration, hosting, general operations discussions not fitting above. Below: every video in this topic that at least three HN users linked with real commentary, in at least three different months (2 talks, 1 demo), best-scored first, with the comments on each video page.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2010–2023HN points to it for Hamilton's datacenter cost breakdown and as a primary source for claims about power versus hardware costs.
- cited 6× 0 months 2021–2025R Rocky Mountain IPv6 Taskforce · talkHN cites it in IPv6 threads as an example of a large adopter, especially for address-space collisions after mergers and conflicts in 10/8.
- cited 4× 0 months 2020–2026S Sascha P · demoHN treats it as the classic example of moving a live server with zero downtime, brought up whenever the topic of uninterrupted migration comes up.
Questions
What is the most recommended systems & security (other) video on Hacker News?
Velocity 2010: James Hamilton, "Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation" by O'Reilly: HN points to it for Hamilton's datacenter cost breakdown and as a primary source for claims about power versus hardware costs.
How is this systems & security (other) list ranked?
By HackerTube's score: the number of distinct months in which an HN comment recommended the video, plus half a point for every month with a strong recommendation. One viral thread counts less than steady recommendations over years.
Where do the videos come from?
From every Hacker News comment between 2007 and 2026 that linked a YouTube video, labeled by an AI model as a recommendation, a citation, a joke or a criticism. The list is published by HackerTube under ODC-By 1.0; this edition adds indexable pages and the comment context.
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.