# Andrej Karpathy YouTube videos

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/youtube-videos/

23 people recommended Andrej Karpathy YouTube videos in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 12 months, in 23 threads. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free video tutorials by Andrej Karpathy that explain LLMs and deep learning basics clearly, with hands-on code that people say helps newcomers.

Summary written by Claude from 25 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 24 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Clear introduction to LLM basics (4 comments in the sample): "I would recommend looking into some of Andrej Karpathy's videos if you want a grasp of the basics." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49087515)) "Karpathy has several videos that could get you there in a few hours" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247445)) "Karpathy has a good set of tutorials on this." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913714))
- Informative and entertaining to watch (3 comments in the sample): "I really enjoyed and learn a lot of things from Karpathy's and Andrew Ng's video." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239509)) "I found it very informative and entertaining" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208115)) "better than most professional production tv, especially for the hard sciences" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388153))
- Hands-on tutorials that build working code (3 comments in the sample): "the tutorials are good enough to make it possible to learn this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49416431)) "excel at solving a complete problem" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444017)) "his Python is good and idiomatic" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430995))
- Better help than AI or search (2 comments in the sample): "videos on YouTube seem to help a lot more than an LLM" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120714)) "is from youtube videos, not AI." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606697))

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## 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, "Andrej Karpathy YouTube videos", https://hackerapproved.com/p/youtube-videos/ (23 recommend, 1 mixed, 3 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.