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Best Tech Talks 2012, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2012, still worth watching: these 81 talks and lectures earned 290 recommendations across the years.
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15 mo on HN1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
Stanford
15 HN recommender · 2012–2026
15 mo on HNThe Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know
Google TechTalks
11 HN recommender · 2012–2025
12 mo on HNLexical Scanning in Go - Rob Pike
GoogleFOSSSydney
13 HN recommender · 2012–2025
11 mo on HNThe great porn experiment | Gary Wilson | TEDxGlasgow
TEDx Talks
10 HN recommender · 2012–2023
9 mo on HNLecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986
MIT OpenCourseWare
11 HN recommender · 2012–2024
11 mo on HNAlan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
powerfuloutlet
10 HN recommender · 2012–2026
10 mo on HNDefcon 18 Changing threats to privacy Moxie Marlinspike Part
killab66661
6 HN recommender · 2012–2019
10 mo on HNHamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)
securitylectures
11 HN recommender · 2012–2023
9 mo on HNLISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
USENIX
9 HN recommender · 2012–2026
10 mo on HNBrian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad
jasonofthel33t
9 HN recommender · 2012–2024
9 mo on HN28c3: The Science of Insecurity
28c3
9 HN recommender · 2012–2024
9 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns
Google for Developers
9 HN recommender · 2012–2025
8 mo on HNStop Writing Classes
Next Day Video
8 HN recommender · 2012–2025
8 mo on HNAnalogy as the Core of Cognition
Stanford
7 HN recommender · 2012–2025
6 mo on HNFeynman on Scientific Method.
seabala
6 HN recommender · 2012–2024
7 mo on HNKeynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator
Next Day Video
7 HN recommender · 2012–2023
7 mo on HNQuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote
QuakeCon Official
6 HN recommender · 2012–2018
5 mo on HNBrains, Sex, and Machine Learning
Google TechTalks
7 HN recommender · 2012–2017
6 mo on HNCivil War General-Purpose Computing | Cory Doctorow | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
4 HN recommender · 2012–2026
6 mo on HNRailsConf 09: Robert Martin, "What Killed Smalltalk Could K
O'Reilly
5 HN recommender · 2012–2026
5 mo on HNKurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
David Comberg
5 HN recommender · 2012–2022
4 mo on HNMassive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn
TED
4 HN recommender · 2012–2022
4 mo on HNA New Way to look at Networking
GoogleTalksArchive
4 HN recommender · 2012–2025
4 mo on HNRich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database
InfoQ
4 HN recommender · 2012–2020
4 mo on HNThe Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Why Didn't This Happen (and why is now the right time?)
Google TechTalks
4 HN recommender · 2012–2022
4 mo on HNBuilding Software Systems At Google and Lessons Learned
Stanford
4 HN recommender · 2012–2022
3 mo on HNFailCon 2011 - Uber Case Study
BAMM.TV
3 HN recommender · 2012–2017
4 mo on HNLearning from dirty jobs | Mike Rowe
TED
4 HN recommender · 2012–2018
3 mo on HNIntroduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub
InfoQ
3 HN recommender · 2012–2016
3 mo on HNA New Way to look at Networking
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2012–2024
3 mo on HNShould Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really)
GoogleTalksArchive
2 HN recommender · 2012–2019
3 mo on HNPeter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
UBC Computer Science
3 HN recommender · 2012–2026
3 mo on HNOSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void"
O'Reilly
3 HN recommender · 2012–2023
3 mo on HNMeaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2012–2014
3 mo on HNThe psychology of evil | Philip Zimbardo
TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2024
3 mo on HNDifferential Synchronization
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2012–2020