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Best Networking & internet infrastructure videos, as recommended on Hacker News

59 videos about networking & internet infrastructure that Hacker News commenters keep recommending, mentioned between 2011 and 2026. Mostly talk, explainer, demo. Channels that come up most: Tom Scott, Amazon Web Services, Mark Handley, NANOG. Sorted by how consistently HN recommended them over the years.

The most recommended is Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need: HN treats it as a favorite example of silly but educational computer science, recommended often when threads touch odd storage hacks.

• demoHarder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or needsuckerpinch · 12 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
• commentaryThis Video Is Sponsored By ███ VPNTom Scott · 9 HN recommenders · 2019–2026
• talkA New Way to look at NetworkingGoogle · 6 HN recommenders · 2011–2018
• commentaryNet Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)LastWeekTonight · 7 HN recommenders · 2014–2017
• explainerCharacters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - ComputerphileComputerphile · 4 HN recommenders · 2014–2025
• talk8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2GDC Festival of Gaming · 4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
• explainerWhy SpaceX is Making StarlinkReal Engineering · 4 HN recommenders · 2019–2020
• talkAWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion PacketsAmazon Web Services · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
• talkEmail Hates the Livingm · 3 HN recommenders · 2015–2022
• talkRicardo Signes - 闇のEメール伝説yapcasia · 3 HN recommenders · 2011–2021
• talkDefeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)TheSecurityTube · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2018
• explainerStarlink revisions, Nov 2018Mark Handley · 4 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• talkHigh Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle DrakePDX Node · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
• talkDefcon 21 - The Secret Life of SIM CardsHackersOnBoard · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2026
• talkDefcon 20 - Dan Tentler - Drinking from the caffeine firehose we know as shodanvissago · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2019
• talkSusan Crawford on Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded AgeBerkman Klein Center for Internet & Society · 3 HN recommenders · 2013–2014
• talkJared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)NLNOG · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
• demoLow Latency Routing in SpaceHotNets Anonymous · 4 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
• documentaryThe Secrets Of Cornwall - Part 1 - CommunicationsMark Thomas · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
• explainerUsing ground relays with StarlinkMark Handley · 5 HN recommenders · 2020–2020
• talkNetdev 0x16 - Keynote: It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenternetdevconf · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2023
• talkDEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without ExploitationDEFCONConference · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• talkHere's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPSTroy Hunt · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• documentaryBBS The.Documentary Part 4 - Fidonetbbsers · 2 HN recommenders · 2014–2019
• tutorialTutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical NetworkingNANOG · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
• commentaryDEBUNKING STARLINKCommon Sense Skeptic · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
• talkFreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix serving at 800Gb/s - Drew Gallatin - EuroBSDcon 2022EuroBSDCon · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
• talkCory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way - PyCon 2016PyCon 2016 · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2024
• demoIPFS Alpha DemoJuan Benet · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2017
• talkSpaceX Seattle 2015Cliff O · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
• talkThe benefits of deploying IPv6 onlyNANOG · 3 HN recommenders · 2015–2016
• explainerAll you need to know to understand 5GSabine Hossenfelder · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
• talkAWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)Amazon Web Services · 2 HN recommenders · 2014–2020
• talkDEFCON 19: Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation (w speaker)Christiaan008 · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2024
• talkMatrix 2.0 — How we're making Matrix go voom!Matrixdotorg · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
• tutorial#112 LoRa / LoRaWAN De-Mystified / TutorialAndreas Spiess · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2024
• tutorialImplementing (part of) a BitTorrent client in RustJon Gjengset · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2023
• explainerHow does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?📡☄🖥Branch Education · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
• documentarySpeedy Cutover Service, SXS switching cutover to ESS filmed live at Glendale CA central office, 1984AT&T Tech Channel · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• talkONS 2015: Wednesday Keynote - Amin VahdatOpen Networking Summit · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2017
• talk115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go by Dan TentlerDevoxx · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2025
• explainerAT&T Archives: The Step-By-Step SwitchAT&T Tech Channel · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2023
• talkTobias Engel: SS7: Locate. Track. Manipulate.media.ccc.de · 1 HN recommender · 2017–2021
• talkSpeakeasy JS - Redbean: Actually Portable Executable Web Server (Justine Tunney)Feross · 1 HN recommender · 2021–2023
• talkDefcon 18 - Practical Cellphone Spying - Chris Paget - Part.movkillab66661 · 1 HN recommender · 2014–2022
• talkdotScale 2015 - John Graham-Cumming - I got 10 trillion problems, but logging ain't onedotconferences · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2018
• commentaryRick Reacts to Lightning (Again) and brings up a previously undiscussed flawWe Are All Satoshi · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2019
• news1994: "Today Show": "What is the Internet, Anyway?"Chrissy Miklacic · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2022
• talkOpenFlow @ Google - Urs Hoelzle, GoogleOpen Networking Summit · 1 HN recommender · 2013–2015
• talkDEFCON 21 - DNS May Be Hazardous to Your Health - Robert StuckeRobert Stucke (bobhex) · 1 HN recommender · 2013–2016
• demoHigh Res Wifi Signal MappingCNLohr · 1 HN recommender · 2017–2024
• explainerHow to slow down a stock exchangeTom Scott · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2023
• documentaryThis is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internetVox · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2026
• explainerTSP #183 - Starlink Dish Phased Array Design, Architecture & RF In-depth AnalysisThe Signal Path · 1 HN recommender · 2021–2026
• talkT-Mobile’s path to IPv6 OnlyRocky Mountain IPv6 Taskforce · 1 HN recommender · 2017–2025
• talkWhy We Run FreeBSD current at Netflix – Drew GallatinOpenFest Bulgaria · 1 HN recommender · 2024–2026
• demoThis ESP32 Antenna Array Can See WiFiJeija · 1 HN recommender · 2025–2026
• demoDial Up Modem Handshake Sound - SpectrogramBitcore · 1 HN recommender · 2014–2024
• talkBlack Hat USA 2013 - Spy-Jacking the BootersBlack Hat · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2017