HN repeatedly names it among the best programming talks, loved for its craftsmanship message that complex tooling can hide simpler solutions.
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The best woodworking, metalworking & workshop skills videos, according to Hacker News
34 videos about woodworking, metalworking & workshop skills that Hacker News commenters keep pointing each other to, ranked by how many separate months they were recommended. Part of Engineering, Transport & Making.
HN recommends it often and warmly, as an inspiring and peaceful view of self-reliance and handcraft, in threads on cabins, solitude and woodworking.
HN commenters repeatedly recommend it as a half-hour mini-documentary on how precision is bootstrapped from scratch, relevant to machining and chip manufacturing threads.
HN commenters call it mesmerizing and a great look at how things are actually made by a dedicated craftsman.
HN repeatedly recommends the series for its extraordinary craftsmanship and its credible demonstration of how the mechanism could have been made.
Recommended as an amazing documentary of traditional ironmaking, often used as a baseline for the labor required.
Recommended as a gold-standard free course for anyone learning to build precision mechanical things.
Recommended as an absorbing masterpiece of craftsmanship, often raised in threads about watches and clockmaking.
Recommended by commenters who say its practical, scientific explanations finally taught them how and why sharpening works.
Recommended to anyone interested in telescope making as a guide from Dobson himself.
HN people link it as a satisfying demonstration of hand-powered drills being made from nothing.
HN commenters recommend it as an excellent introduction to massive forging presses, especially in threads about gigacasting and large manufacturing machines.
HN users recommend the Spec House series as a free, extremely detailed education in how a house is actually built.
Recommended as a thoughtful, enjoyable 45-minute dive into measurement and the appreciation of precision.
HN points people to it as the original explanation of what Gridfinity is and why it exists, in threads about the project and its catalogs.
HN considers it the key experimental evidence on how effective longbows really were against armour.
Shared as a satisfying look at craftsmen taking pride in traditional handmade tile mosaics.
Linked as the canonical demo of a safety technology that stops a blade before it injures a finger.
Recommended as a hands-on introduction to glass melting and chemistry and to Krasnow's channel.
HN commenters use it as a quick, hands-on demonstration that steel loses strength well below its melting point.
Named as a favorite LPL video, where a skeptical locksmith's challenge gets answered quickly.
HN readers like the channel for showing technology rebuilt from raw materials, and cite it as a vivid example of knowledge building on knowledge.
HN recommends it as a candid mea culpa and a kickback demonstration that changed how people use push blocks.
Cited as a marvel of absurd precision in home-built machine tools, and a pointer to Gelbart's other videos.
Recommended as a beautiful explanation of how the mechanism models the Moon's uneven motion.
Cited as a favorite example of clever mechanical design and as a reference for CNC joinery devices.
HN people value its authenticity: no cuts, no cheating, and real tool use done entirely with materials found on site.
Used to illustrate that fire safes protect against fire and not theft, and that brute force often defeats low-security containers.
Used as a short intro to knolling and as an analogy for tidying workspaces and continuously cleaning up code.
HN shares it as a fun curiosity about early IBM history, with time stamps for the nameplate and the explanation.
Cited as a concrete example of how thermite is used for track welding in discussions of rail and thermite.
Cited as a DIY speaker reference when commenters discuss building their own audio gear.
HN cites it as the classic example of a mechanical binary adder and a source of inspiration for marble-based computers.
Referenced in security threads as proof that tamper-evident seals and stickers can be bypassed.
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