Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2008, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2008, still worth watching: these 163 tech talks and lectures earned 427 recommendations across the years.
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1 mo on HNComparing Tesla, Ford, & VW's Electrical Architectures
Munro Live
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2021
1 mo on HNSteve Jobs on Virtual Reality (D3, 2005)
Milan Lajtoš
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2026
1 mo on HNBill Atkinson: Hypercard
TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Recommended 1× on HN · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNMoore's Law is Not Dead (Jim Keller) | AI Podcast Clips
Lex Fridman
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2025
1 mo on HNElon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18
Lex Fridman
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2025
1 mo on HNFreeman Dyson - Fermi's rejection of our work (94/157)
Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People
Recommended 2× on HN · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNBlitzscaling 08: Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google
Greylock
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2024
1 mo on HNLadyada interview with Paul Horowitz - The Art of Electronics @adafruit @electronicsbook
Adafruit Industries
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2019
1 mo on HNPeter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not To Name Your Company | Conversations with Tyler
Mercatus Center
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2021
1 mo on HNWikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created
UnHerd
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNJellyvision Q&A with DHH & Jason Fried
JellyvisionLab
Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2016
1 mo on HNEdsger Dijkstra interview
Hans Otten
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2024
1 mo on HNChris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131
Lex Fridman
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2025
1 mo on HNLamport on writing "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"
Turing Awardee Clips
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2024
1 mo on HNRichard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295
Lex Fridman
Recommended 1× on HN · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNHandmadeCon 2015 - Mike Acton
Molly Rocket
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2024
1 mo on HNTwo decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
GitHub
Recommended 1× on HN · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNJeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
Dwarkesh Patel
Recommended 1× on HN · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNA.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Interesting Times
Recommended 1× on HN · 2025–2026