Andrej Karpathy YouTube videos
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Free video tutorials by Andrej Karpathy that explain LLMs and deep learning basics clearly, with hands-on code that people say helps newcomers.
Free video tutorials by Andrej Karpathy that explain LLMs and deep learning basics clearly, with hands-on code that people say helps newcomers.
27 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 24
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 89%
Recommended in 10 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 24 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 10 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Clear introduction to LLM basics
“I would recommend looking into some of Andrej Karpathy's videos if you want a grasp of the basics.”
Comment from 28 Jul 2026 in “You Could Have Come Up with Kimi Delta Attention” “Karpathy has several videos that could get you there in a few hours”
Comment from 23 May 2026 in “Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles” “Karpathy has a good set of tutorials on this.”
Comment from 30 Sep 2026 in “The last time my family was replaced by technology” - Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis”
Informative and entertaining to watch
“I really enjoyed and learn a lot of things from Karpathy's and Andrew Ng's video.”
Comment from 10 Aug 2026 in “How I use LLMs to learn complex topics” “His recent videos are excellent educational material.”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks” “I found it very informative and entertaining”
Comment from 9 Dec 2025 in “LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090” - Comment from 26 Dec 2025 in “Paperbacks and TikTok”
Hands-on tutorials that build working code
“the tutorials are good enough to make it possible to learn this”
Comment from 24 Aug 2026 in “I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch” “your videos themselves have been the biggest help so far”
Comment from 1 Nov 2026 in “HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN” “excel at solving a complete problem”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python” - Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Karpathy on Programming”
Better help than AI or search
“videos on YouTube seem to help a lot more than an LLM”
Comment from 16 Oct 2026 in “Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men” “is from youtube videos, not AI.”
Comment from 20 Jun 2026 in “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good”
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrej Karpathy YouTube videosThis page | 24 | 3 | 89% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Handmade Hero by Casey Muratori | 24 | 10 | 71% | 10 | — | Approved |
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| Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts | 7 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
25 of the 28 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“your videos themselves have been the biggest help so far”
“videos on YouTube seem to help a lot more than an LLM”
“Karpathy has a good set of tutorials on this.”
“way less annoying than watching a 9 minute long (for the algorithm) YT video”
“This (flat) fee-only advisor goes over some of the preconceptions that have”
“the tutorials are good enough to make it possible to learn this”
“I really enjoyed and learn a lot of things from Karpathy's and Andrew Ng's video.”
“I would recommend looking into some of Andrej Karpathy's videos if you want a grasp of the basics.”
“is from youtube videos, not AI.”
“is covered well by Andrej Karpathy's videos”
“following Kaparthy’s online lectures, for a fraction of the cost”
“excel at solving a complete problem”
“focusing on the early parts where he specifically deals with tokenization / embeddings generation”
“Karpathy has several videos that could get you there in a few hours”
“Hans Rosenberg has some darn good yt videos”
“Even Karpathy's YouTube series was too dense for me.”
“He is a much better producer of videos than a writer.”
“His recent videos are excellent educational material.”
“Go and watch Armin Ronacher on youtube if you want to see what a real developer doing this looks like”
“There are many good youtube videos that explain the problem in more details.”
“his Python is good and idiomatic”
“better than most professional production tv, especially for the hard sciences”
“I think this video does a pretty good job explaining it, starting about 10:30 minutes in”
“I found it very informative and entertaining”
“the first results of every search is just plain crap”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.