Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2008, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2008, still worth watching: these 1072 tech talks and lectures earned 3862 recommendations across the years.
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6 mo on HN"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 5× on HN · 2020–2023
7 mo on HNTheory and Practice of Cryptography
Google TechTalks
Recommended 5× on HN · 2011–2019
6 mo on HNJames Powell: So you want to be a Python expert? | PyData Seattle 2017
PyData
Recommended 6× on HN · 2020–2026
6 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy - AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla
Matroid
Recommended 4× on HN · 2020–2022
6 mo on HNDarius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)
XOXO Festival
Recommended 7× on HN · 2015–2024
7 mo on HNCppCon 2019: Chandler Carruth “There Are No Zero-cost Abstractions”
CppCon
Recommended 7× on HN · 2020–2026
7 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente “Postmodern immutable data structures”
CppCon
Recommended 5× on HN · 2017–2025
6 mo on HNOn The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (SIGBOVIK)
Tom Wildenhain
Recommended 8× on HN · 2017–2025
6 mo on HNCasey Muratori | Smart-Pointers, RAII, ZII? Becoming an N+2 programmer
xDahl
Recommended 6× on HN · 2024–2026
6 mo on HN[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models
Andrej Karpathy
Recommended 9× on HN · 2023–2026
6 mo on HNVeritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Recommended 6× on HN · 2025–2026
6 mo on HNMonktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering
RedMonk Tech Events
Recommended 6× on HN · 2016–2026
6 mo on HNI don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
O'Reilly
Recommended 6× on HN · 2018–2025
5 mo on HNC++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter - atomic Weapons 1 of 2
alexsmail
Recommended 4× on HN · 2020–2024
7 mo on HNThe Future of Mathematics?
Microsoft Research
Recommended 9× on HN · 2019–2025
6 mo on HNSorting Algorithms: Speed Is Found In The Minds of People - Andrei Alexandrescu - CppCon 2019
CppCon
Recommended 7× on HN · 2019–2024
5 mo on HN!!Con 2016 - How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!! By Sina Bahram
Confreaks
Recommended 2× on HN · 2019–2022
6 mo on HN"Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 6× on HN · 2015–2023
6 mo on HN28c3: The coming war on general computation
28c3
Recommended 6× on HN · 2011–2026
6 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Zoz - Don't Fuck It Up!
DEFCONConference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2021
6 mo on HNGtk to Qt - a strange journey [linux.conf.au 2014]
Konstantin Bläsi
Recommended 5× on HN · 2014–2024
6 mo on HNJonathan Blow: Video Games and the Human Condition
rubbermuck
Recommended 6× on HN · 2011–2017
6 mo on HNFunctional architecture - The pits of success - Mark Seemann
NDC Conferences
Recommended 5× on HN · 2018–2025
6 mo on HNHow we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes
Morphcat Games
Recommended 6× on HN · 2019–2026
6 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”
CppCon
Recommended 7× on HN · 2018–2022
6 mo on HNJake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tasks, requestAnimationFrame, ...
JSConf
Recommended 7× on HN · 2018–2023
5 mo on HNCo-dfns Live Stream: Compiler Design and Architecture
Aaron Hsu (arcfide)
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2025
5 mo on HNThe best stats you've ever seen | Hans Rosling
TED
Recommended 5× on HN · 2013–2026
6 mo on HNBryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones
PapersWeLove
Recommended 6× on HN · 2016–2025
6 mo on HNOOPSLA Conference: Growing a Language
Computer History Museum
Recommended 6× on HN · 2020–2026
6 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Deviant Ollam & Howard Payne - Elevator Hacking - From the Pit to the Penthouse
DEFCONConference
Recommended 5× on HN · 2016–2026
6 mo on HN"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 8× on HN · 2018–2021
6 mo on HN7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0
GoogleTalksArchive
Recommended 5× on HN · 2013–2023
6 mo on HNIntroduction to NoSQL • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2012
GOTO Conferences
Recommended 6× on HN · 2015–2021
7 mo on HNdotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
dotconferences
Recommended 7× on HN · 2016–2023
5 mo on HN[HOPE X] Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse
themarimbaincident
Recommended 4× on HN · 2014–2023