Would love to discover some interesting new YouTube channels from hacker news members.
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Here is a playlist on linear algebra topics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGmu4KtWiH6-F2JlLVvCT... and repo with associated notebook https://github.com/minireference/noBSLAnotebooks/#chapters-o...
Here is a playlist on statistics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGmu4KtWiH680gMQnSbSA... and notebooks https://github.com/minireference/noBSstatsnotebooks/tree/mai...
I have a bunch of others in "draft mode" in the works, and I hope to keep making more, as I find these sessions are very useful for me to organize my thoughts in front of an "imagined" audience.
It's a touch niche.
I also made a bunch of mistakes that kinda soured the experience and made me realize I'd have to be much more strict about sourcing, vetting, and reviewing every single detail. I hope I'll pick it back up one day, but it doesn't seem likely.
https://www.youtube.com/@jacktech5101
Occasionally I make music and publish it on my other channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JackGMusic
Some background if you want: Tried the "YouTuber" thing 10 years ago - we got a couple viral vids and it resulted in views and subscribers then YouTube changed the way accounts were handled with Google+ but also how subscribers operate with opting-in for notifications and whatnot so our fanbase effectively just died. We all kinda aged out of making goofy vids but we do have a few we're still editing but who knows if we'll release theme.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW20BczLnN1SehPu-Me4t0g
If you are interested in learning Blender and or jewelry design, I welcome you to check it out! I have been working as a freelance designer and I have a passion for teaching, I am also a certifite goldsmith and somehow I combined all these aspects in my tutorials. I also have some paid courses accompanying the channel with more in-depth stuff.
It is at the moment more of a side project but I do plan on creating more after I finish my Bachelors degree :P
Have a good one
I tried the tutorials in combination with my mediocre knowledge. Somewhat magical to hold a physical object in my hands after clicking around.
How many more classical "hand-based" jobs are about getting disrupted?
Not tech related, but I document the lives of the two Tokay Geckos (male and female, plus now two babies that aren't on the videos yet) living between my outside sofa and house wall in Thailand.
The male gecko came to live there, I had a terrible leftover camera from some other things with like 720p/15fps, stuck it there, put a few videos online. Came back months later expecting to have a handful of views and one of them had like 120k at that point :P
Their life is quite interesting, I've had a lot of fun following them but I've been stupid with the cameras. So far I've ordered three cheap no brand cameras just for this, none of them have been as the specs promised, and the best one broke down some weeks ago. Getting a brand name one soon and hopefully the quality will be much better. Plus I'm not happy that I seem to get most stable views with shorts so I'm kinda torn between posting the videos I'd like to see and videos others apparently prefer.
I upload recordings of my weekly CockroachDB database development stream that I do on Twitch (https://twitch.tv/large__data__bank).
Turns out this was a super fast way to grow, but I decided to change directions as I didn't want to become an interview prep channel. Unlisted most of my videos and started fresh in early 2021. (You can still find them on a playlist on my channel.)
From then I made videos focusing on tech I was interested in like Vue.js, Tailwind CSS, React, TypeScript, VS Code, and Vim! Late 2021, I stumbled upon Three.js and graphics programming and that's the main focus of my channel now. My latest video was a tutorial on the Phong lighting method.
Stats: 14k+ subscribers, 1M+ total views, $100-200 per month (passive) income.
I can see how being violently launched into an altered state of consciousness and forced to confront your most fundamental assumptions about base reality is not necessarily a glowingly positive experience for everyone.
Car and motorcycle restoration projects - mostly my wife and I restoring a 1993 Toyota MR2
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I also have Big Beige Box: https://youtube.com/@bigbeigebox?feature=shares
Retro computer projects, so far fixing up a cheap Pentium II system, but I’ve got older systems planned
Here's mine:
https://www.youtube.com/@PageKeyTech
It's focused on implementing things from scratch and capturing the process on video. A popular series is our PKOS series - attempting to build an OS from scratch and learning a lot along the way.
Now focused on plaintext-daw, which is just what it sounds like: a DAW with Plaintext save files, so you can collaborate on music using Git.
I also have a Discord server for anyone who wants to join, discuss these projects, and help out!
I'll be the first to admit that my initial videos are pretty ropey - but I think I've got into the swing of things now. Almost 27,000 subs can't be wrong!
https://www.youtube.com/@atomic14
Very pleased with this bit of work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QHz_5pqPuo - a wordle solving robot.
The game project has gone quite the distance from everything being quickly sketched sprites + checkerboard textures, to everything being shiny & polished, and running cross-platform on PC and consoles.
Forward looking coverage of sustainable energy technology.
I made a couple of double pendulum videos in 2021 and then walked away. For the first year they got less than 100 views then one suddenly picked up and was getting 10,000 views per day for a few days so I uploaded a few more.
The interest has slowly died down again (500-1000 views per day and decreasing) but I'm now motivated to create more content when I have time.
or: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVI2upM-l1HvOCMXs4hqbGg
Less Talk More Fun
A (mostly) weekly podcast we've been doing for almost a year now. Trying to cover a mix of next, papers and releases through the lens of two previous founders of an AI company.
You can see it here: https://youtu.be/Gfbwhx1kumI
I have some videos in latin where I read the Vulgate. Also some french videos about 19th century french poetry. I plan to release new stuff about philosophy and linear\integer programming.
Nothing technical. Just going around forests and seascapes taking photos.
In the future I want to do less talking and more vistas and surroundings.
Anyone else into landscape photography?
It's a monthly live show with a bunch of makers from YouTube - would be highly entertaining if loads of hacker news people suddenly turned up!
Nothing to do with Dev, or Tech. I'm a voice actor and long-time HN'er who helps other voice actors get set up -- but I can help you find a mic for your streaming setup!
It's a channel where I showcase 3D WebGL works and tutorials made with Polygonjs[0], a design tool I created.
I’m an “old school” coder. I don’t use a lot of frameworks. Lots of my first projects are Go command line tools.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0yH4m1eWzvGpI_nloNFq...
It's very important work.
Haven’t uploaded for a bit but just set up the new studio and hoping to begin again in the next month or so.
Made a few videos to help front-end web developers. Such as how to use DevTools, a bit about web performance and other related things.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrhT70iTB7cVaVJSPLCTfbQ
I am still improving my video making skills.
I never know quite how to explain it: I guess it's best to say I make animated explainer videos about topic that catch my attention.
Some projects end up taking many months unexpectedly, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ
Some years are a lot of bad luck, like they one that just passed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEFP_taZxo0
I do web developer tutorials and showcase incredible web portfolios built in threejs and WebGL. Mostly a webdev focused channel :)
Programming a 4DOF robot arm to perform various pick and place tasks
Just a place to host my NLP course. Don't know whether I'll do anything further.
How do you pick interview subjects?
I don't think it would be of any use for the HN audience, though.
