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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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3 mo on HNSpeed Up Your JavaScript
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2012–2025
3 mo on HNJacob Appelbaum (Part 2/2) Digital Anti-Repression Workshop - April 26 2012
NewYorkRawVideos
3 HN recommender · 2012–2017
2 mo on HNKeynote - Karen Sandler
Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2012–2016
2 mo on HNBeware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser
TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2025
2 mo on HNSensor Fusion on Android Devices: A Revolution in Motion Processing
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2012–2026
2 mo on HNApple's World Wide Developers Conference 1997 with Steve Jobs
superapple4ever
2 HN recommender · 2012–2022
2 mo on HNHow Google's Self-Driving Car Works
IEEE Spectrum
2 HN recommender · 2012–2016
2 mo on HNBest Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky
TheAnimalHolocaust
1 HN recommend · 2012–2016
2 mo on HNre:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media
re:publica
2 HN recommender · 2012–2022
2 mo on HNDouglas Crockford: The JSON Saga
YUI Library
2 HN recommender · 2012–2025
2 mo on HNTEDxCopenhagen - Mikael Colville-Andersen - Why We Shouldn't Bike with a Helmet
TEDx Talks
2 HN recommender · 2012–2024
2 mo on HNA Possible Future of Software Development
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2012–2019
2 mo on HNConrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2020
2 mo on HNMake love, not porn (Adult content) | Cindy Gallop
TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2017
2 mo on HNXFS: Recent and Future Adventures in Filesystem Scalability - Dave Chinner
Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2012–2023
2 mo on HNThe $8 billion iPod | Rob Reid
TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2026
2 mo on HNSam Harris - Death and the Present Moment
Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc
2 HN recommender · 2012–2017
2 mo on HNNeuroscience of Personality | Dario Nardi | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2012–2016
2 mo on HNGoing Native 2012 Keynote Stroustrup
savage309
2 HN recommender · 2012–2025
2 mo on HNEFI and Linux: the future is here, and it's awful - Matthew Garrett
Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2012–2017
2 mo on HNRichard Feynman on hungry philosophers (or do we see objects or only their light)
Zero
2 HN recommender · 2012–2021
2 mo on HN7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0
Google
2 HN recommender · 2012–2023
2 mo on HNGrowing Reddit - Web Development
Udacity
2 HN recommender · 2012–2023
1 mo on HNSteve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation on 1980 (Insanely Great)
naji1234
1 HN recommend · 2012–2026
1 mo on HNPeter Thiel and George Gilder debate on "The Prospects for Technology and Economic Growth"
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
1 HN recommend · 2012–2012
1 mo on HN28c3: Print Me If You Dare
28c3
1 HN recommend · 2012–2018
1 mo on HNCharles Babbage and Difference Enginge No. 2 | Doron Swade | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2012–2022
1 mo on HNGoRuCo 2012 Hexagonal Rails by Matt Wynne
Confreaks
1 HN recommend · 2012–2014
1 mo on HNScalability at YouTube
Next Day Video
1 HN recommend · 2012–2024
1 mo on HNMacworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)
JoshuaG
1 HN recommend · 2012–2026
1 mo on HNFlash Mob Gone Wrong | Tom Scott | Ignite
Ignite Talks - Smart Ideas From Around the World
1 HN recommend · 2012–2020
1 mo on HNImaging at a trillion frames per second | Ramesh Raskar
TED
1 HN recommend · 2012–2019
1 mo on HNThe Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away
Google TechTalks
1 HN recommend · 2012–2024
1 mo on HNNick Hanauer on inequality
WatchExtraVideo
1 HN recommend · 2012–2020
1 mo on HNHow economic inequality harms societies | Richard Wilkinson
TED
1 HN recommend · 2012–2016
1 mo on HNVelocity 2011: Jon Jenkins, "Velocity Culture"
O'Reilly
1 HN recommend · 2012–2018