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Best Tech Talks 2011, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2011, still worth watching: these 44 talks and lectures earned 168 recommendations across the years.
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12 mo on HNLec 1 | MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005
MIT OpenCourseWare
11 HN recommender · 2011–2020
12 mo on HNHow To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
Google TechTalks
12 HN recommender · 2011–2025
11 mo on HNRepublic, Lost | Lawrence Lessig | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
10 HN recommender · 2011–2017
9 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms
Royal Society of Arts
10 HN recommender · 2011–2026
7 mo on HNBlackHat USA 2011: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity
Christiaan008
9 HN recommender · 2011–2017
7 mo on HN27C3: Adventures in analyzing Stuxnet (Bruce Dang from Microsoft)
basti0007
8 HN recommender · 2011–2024
6 mo on HNA New Way to look at Networking
Google
6 HN recommender · 2011–2018
7 mo on HNTheory and Practice of Cryptography
Google TechTalks
5 HN recommender · 2011–2019
6 mo on HN28c3: The coming war on general computation
28c3
6 HN recommender · 2011–2026
6 mo on HNJonathan Blow: Video Games and the Human Condition
rubbermuck
6 HN recommender · 2011–2017
5 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer
Google for Developers
5 HN recommender · 2011–2024
5 mo on HNIntroduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl
InfoQ
5 HN recommender · 2011–2018
5 mo on HNHow Great Leaders Inspire Action | Simon Sinek | TED
TED
4 HN recommender · 2011–2022
5 mo on HNA JVM Does That?
Google TechTalks
4 HN recommender · 2011–2017
4 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Royal Society of Arts
2 HN recommender · 2011–2022
4 mo on HNSteve Jobs Insult Response
Mike Cane
4 HN recommender · 2011–2022
3 mo on HNLecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)
Stanford
3 HN recommender · 2011–2024
3 mo on HNEben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud
Punkcast
3 HN recommender · 2011–2018
4 mo on HNPractical Common Lisp
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2011–2025
3 mo on HNRepublic, Lost (my favorite version)
lessig
3 HN recommender · 2011–2022
3 mo on HNThinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
2 HN recommender · 2011–2023
3 mo on HNSteve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy)
Stanford
2 HN recommender · 2011–2023
3 mo on HNPlaying to Lose: AI and "Civilization" (Soren Johnson)
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2011–2026
3 mo on HNRicardo Signes - 闇のEメール伝説
yapcasia
3 HN recommender · 2011–2021
3 mo on HN25c3: The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk
Christiaan008
3 HN recommender · 2011–2025
3 mo on HNA real person, a lot like you
Derek Sivers
3 HN recommender · 2011–2013
3 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Royal Society of Arts
3 HN recommender · 2011–2022
3 mo on HNGoogle Developers Day US - Python Design Patterns
GoogleDeveloperDay
2 HN recommender · 2011–2020
3 mo on HNJames Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities
TED
4 HN recommender · 2011–2024
3 mo on HNRyan Dahl - History of Node.js
phxtagsoup
3 HN recommender · 2011–2013
2 mo on HNLecture 1 | Convex Optimization I (Stanford)
Stanford
2 HN recommender · 2011–2022
2 mo on HNLouis CK honors George Carlin
Bromista5
2 HN recommender · 2011–2025
2 mo on HNVideo from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos
07272009july
2 HN recommender · 2011–2018
2 mo on HNDtrace Review
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2011–2021
2 mo on HNAre we in control of our decisions? | Dan Ariely
TED
2 HN recommender · 2011–2017
2 mo on HNRalph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
TED
2 HN recommender · 2011–2021