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Best Tech Talks 2008, Ranked by Hacker News

First recommended on Hacker News in 2008, still worth watching: these 387 tech talks and lectures earned 1364 recommendations across the years.

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7 mo on HN

Propaganda Games: Sesame Credit - The True Danger of Gamification - Extra Credits

Extra Credits

Recommended 7× on HN · 2015–2018

5 mo on HN

But what is the Riemann zeta function? Visualizing analytic continuation

3Blue1Brown

Recommended 6× on HN · 2017–2023

5 mo on HN

How lucky is too lucky?: The Minecraft Speedrunning Dream Controversy Explained

Stand-up Maths

Recommended 5× on HN · 2021–2025

4 mo on HN

Who cares about topology? (Old version)

3Blue1Brown

Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2020

5 mo on HN

Why do prime numbers make these spirals? | Dirichlet’s theorem and pi approximations

3Blue1Brown

Recommended 7× on HN · 2019–2024

5 mo on HN

Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)

Veritasium

Recommended 7× on HN · 2022–2025

5 mo on HN

Star Size Comparison 2

morn1415

Recommended 5× on HN · 2016–2022

5 mo on HN

The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of

Veritasium

Recommended 6× on HN · 2021–2025

5 mo on HN

Computer Color is Broken

minutephysics

Recommended 4× on HN · 2015–2026

4 mo on HN

Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile

Computerphile

Recommended 4× on HN · 2014–2025

Best Tech Talks 2008, Ranked by Hacker News

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Longer-lasting light bulbs: it was complicated

Thinking outside the 10-dimensional box

(1/4) Intro/History: Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer

Eigenvectors and eigenvalues | Chapter 14, Essence of linear algebra

Intelligence and Stupidity: The Orthogonality Thesis

The Fastest Way to Board a Plane Feels Like the Slowest

Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second

All the Numbers - Numberphile

30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World

The more general uncertainty principle, regarding Fourier transforms

JPEG DCT, Discrete Cosine Transform (JPEG Pt2)- Computerphile

Fourier Optics used for Optical Pattern Recognition

Visualizing the 4d numbers Quaternions

Do Chairs Exist?

Zipline - How Rwanda Built A Drone Delivery Service

Ramanujan: Making sense of 1+2+3+... = -1/12 and Co.

CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!

Can You Watch This Without Getting Angry?

Old pinball machines are amazingly complex

The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken

What does it feel like to invent math?

How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)

Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)

P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo

Simulating an epidemic

Traffic Has a Perfect Solution. Humans Are the Problem.

Propaganda Games: Sesame Credit - The True Danger of Gamification - Extra Credits

But what is the Riemann zeta function? Visualizing analytic continuation

How lucky is too lucky?: The Minecraft Speedrunning Dream Controversy Explained

Who cares about topology? (Old version)

Why do prime numbers make these spirals? | Dirichlet’s theorem and pi approximations

Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)

Star Size Comparison 2

The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of

Computer Color is Broken

Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile