# Veritasium Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/veritasium/ 37 people recommended Veritasium in Hacker News comments, 4 had mixed feelings and 12 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 12 months, in 35 threads. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Recommended for well-researched, polished science videos that tell compelling stories about discoveries; the most common caveat is clickbait titles and misleading content. Summary written by Claude from 52 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 49 of those comments still count. ## Why people recommend it - Well-researched, accurate science content (4 comments in the sample): "it offers access to physics in a consumable form for many lay people while trying to maintain rigor better than most" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378527)) "This Veritasium video does a great job at explaining how such skewed priors can easily appear" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293125)) "I haven't watched that many, but for the few I did the physics was surprisingly good." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379174)) - Rigorous, not dumbed down (3 comments in the sample): "the information density he delivers versus Veritasium or Smarter Every Day on a similar length video is much lower" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960194)) "she was really impressed that it didnt dumb anything down like normal documentaries do" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47168148)) "its full of horrible truths and real information and not dramatised" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579567)) - Compelling stories about discoveries (2 comments in the sample): "Veritasium is story telling and the stories of the people you do these discoveries that follow the hero's arc are very compelling." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46463924)) "I watched that Veritasium video a while back and was glued to it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933241)) - High production quality (1 comment in the sample): "They have all made extremely high quality, and often profound videos." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388246)) ## What people warn about - Clickbait titles and misleading videos (4 comments in the sample): "it often seems like their clickbait titles are complete fabrications and don't even match the video content" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395252)) "Clickbait from yet another corporate owned YouTube channel." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383121)) "The Veratasium video comes across as pretty clickbait-y." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011090)) - Quality decline after private equity buyout (4 comments in the sample): "Legendary channel and dude, but everything must succumb to the Law of Enshittification eventually." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378288)) "I've stopped watching Veritasium after the PE buyout. All of a sudden I'm deeply suspicous of their content" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608422)) "it's rubbed a lot of fans the wrong way with the changes by the new management" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006990)) - Errors and technically-correct explanations (3 comments in the sample): "I was an avid viewer until he stepped in my area of expertise and leveraged technicalities, half-truths, and misrepresentation" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46265128)) "Seems like every other week or so I see someone detail patiently why they have incorrectly explained something." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378012)) "Veritasium prefers "technically correct" over factually correct." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139040)) ## Other YouTube channels people recommend - [3Blue1Brown](https://hackerapproved.com/p/3blue1brown/): 79 recommend, 13 mixed, 4 criticize - [Technology Connections YouTube channel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/technology-connections/): 36 recommend, 2 mixed, 2 criticize - [Asianometry](https://hackerapproved.com/p/asianometry-youtube-channel/): 23 recommend, 0 mixed, 1 criticize - [Gamers Nexus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gamers-nexus/): 20 recommend, 2 mixed, 10 criticize ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Veritasium", https://hackerapproved.com/p/veritasium/ (37 recommend, 4 mixed, 12 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.