Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2007, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2007, still worth watching: these 1072 tech talks and lectures earned 3862 recommendations across the years.
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1 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2011: Kick-Ass Game Programming with Google Web Toolkit
Google for Developers
Recommended 1× on HN · 2011–2018
1 mo on HNSoftware is in Decline - Jonathan Blow
gamedev cuts
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2026
1 mo on HNCryptocurrency Explained: Money as a System-of-Control
aantonop
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2020
1 mo on HNWhat VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years (Steam Dev Days 2014)
Steamworks Development
Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2017
1 mo on HNScalability at YouTube
Next Day Video
Recommended 1× on HN · 2012–2024
1 mo on HN[JSConfUS 2013] Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke: JS Apps at Facebook
JSConf
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2024
1 mo on HNThesis: Partial State in Dataflow-Based Materialized Views
Jon Gjengset
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNSteve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series
MIT Video Productions
Recommended 1× on HN · 2018–2025
1 mo on HNVelocity 2011: Artur Bergman, "Artur on SSD's"
O'Reilly
Recommended 1× on HN · 2011–2021
1 mo on HNElon Musk on Cameras vs LiDAR for Self Driving and Autonomous Cars
AutoPilot Review
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNIs It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust?
InfoQ
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2023
1 mo on HN2023 Investor Day | Tesla
Tesla
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2025
1 mo on HNCategory Theory, The essence of interface-based design - Erik Meijer
FooCafe
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2022
1 mo on HNLarry Wall Speaks at Google
Google TechTalks
Recommended 1× on HN · 2009–2018
1 mo on HNTechnical leadership and glue work - Tanya Reilly | #LeadDevNewYork
LeadDev
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Marc Rogers and Kevin Mahaffey - How to Hack a Tesla Model S
DEFCONConference
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2018
1 mo on HNDEF CON 17 - Deviant Ollam - Packing and the Friendly Skies
DEFCONConference
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2023
1 mo on HNMacworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)
JoshuaG
Recommended 1× on HN · 2012–2026
1 mo on HNdotScale 2015 - John Graham-Cumming - I got 10 trillion problems, but logging ain't one
dotconferences
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2018
1 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Y Combinator
Recommended 1× on HN · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNrand() Considered Harmful
aghuttun
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2025
1 mo on HNGreg Young — A Decade of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
Domain-Driven Design Europe
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2026
1 mo on HNThe Great Debate @ARITH23: John Gustafson and William Kahan
dancefan
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2023
1 mo on HNFounders@Google Presents: The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange
Google TechTalks
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2026
1 mo on HNGame Development with SDL 2.0 (Steam Dev Days 2014)
Steamworks Development
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2020
1 mo on HNJordan Hubbard - FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years
iX
Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2016
1 mo on HNThe past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)
Local-First Conf
Recommended 1× on HN · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 (see description for better quality version)
YarrowFlower
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2022
1 mo on HNGoingNative 2012 - Day 2 - Clang
aghuttun
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2022
1 mo on HNLearning from StackOverflow.com
Google TechTalks
Recommended 1× on HN · 2009–2021
1 mo on HNSymbolicsTalk28June2012
Mike Lambert
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2024
1 mo on HNWhy April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit - Talk at SF Tech Poetics 01/18/18
Josh Wardle
Recommended 1× on HN · 2022–2022
1 mo on HNAndy Keep - Writing a Nanopass Compiler
ClojureTV
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2026
1 mo on HNTudor Gîrba - Moldable development
Curry On!
Recommended 1× on HN · 2022–2024
1 mo on HNCppCon 2018: Hana Dusíková “Compile Time Regular Expressions”
CppCon
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2025
1 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2014 | (SPOT302) Under the Covers of AWS: Its Core Distributed Systems
Amazon Web Services
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2025