Ask HN: Which YouTube channels do you watch regularly?

* ElectroBOOM (Electronics)

* Codys Lab (Physics/Chemistry)

* RedNile (Chemistry)

* Computerphile, Numberphile, PeriodicTable and their Astronomy/Astrophysics/Spacephysics Channel

* DeFranco (Politics and News)

* Super Eyepatch Wolf (Video Essays on Video Games, Anime, Comics, etc.)

* Ephemeral Rift (ASMR, though I mainly use it as background noise, not much of a fan of ASMR itself)

* Extra Credits (Game Design)

* AvE and BigClive (Tear Downs and shouting and China Electronics, beware Humor)

Maybe it’s because I haven’t really used YouTube much, but there seem to be very few content producers that deliver content which is based on any form of scientific methodology or even any form of real journalism.

I can quickly find a ton of “documentaries” on Ancient Rome for instance, and I have watched quite a few. I happen to have made the rare mix of CS and history when I took my original candidate degree at the university of Aarhus, and I specialized in Ancient Rome. I’ve yet to see anything on YouTube on Ancient Rome, that wasn’t amateurish at best unless it came from somewhere else, like the BBC.

I think that is the best way to put it. YouTube just doesn’t seem like a good place for production of knowledge, and as much as I enjoy watching a guy build a clay cabin from the ground up with his bare hands, I’d frankly rather read a book.

Louis Rossmann - livestreams component-level MacBook board repairs, strangely compelling

CppCon, BoostCon - the good, bad and ugly of C++

EEVblog - electronics engineering rants and teardowns from an Aussie design engineer