Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2012, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2012, still worth watching: these 124 tech talks and lectures earned 443 recommendations across the years.
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4 mo on HNThe Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
Veritasium
Recommended 5× on HN · 2023–2024
4 mo on HNInside a Huge PCB Factory
Strange Parts
Recommended 4× on HN · 2018–2026
3 mo on HNThe Death of Affordable Computing | Tariffs Impact & Investigation
Gamers Nexus
Recommended 3× on HN · 2025–2025
3 mo on HNThe REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)
NCommander
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNI BOUGHT A WHOLE CHURCH ORGAN - Part 1 The Organs Removal
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER
Recommended 3× on HN · 2022–2023
3 mo on HNDerren Brown - The System (Full)
ScepticaTV
Recommended 3× on HN · 2013–2017
3 mo on HNThe Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | full movie (2014)
moviemaniacsDE
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2026
3 mo on HNCouldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in conversation with David Krakauer
Karol Jałochowski
Recommended 3× on HN · 2023–2025
3 mo on HNThe Company that Broke Canada
BobbyBroccoli
Recommended 3× on HN · 2024–2026
3 mo on HNHow We Made MuseScore 4 - Music App Design is Challenging!
Tantacrul
Recommended 4× on HN · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNBirth of BASIC
Dartmouth
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2024
3 mo on HN"This Machine Greens" - Bitcoin Documentary - Online Premiere
Swan Bitcoin
Recommended 5× on HN · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNWhy The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips
CNBC
Recommended 4× on HN · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNSega Saturn CD - Cracked after 20 years
debuglive
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNRevolution OS
Von Hash
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2016
3 mo on HNExposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion | View From Above | Business Insider
Business Insider
Recommended 2× on HN · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNWLW's 500,000 Watt Transmitter
K7AGE
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2023
3 mo on HNThe Fallen of World War II
Neil Halloran
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNThe Secrets Of Cornwall - Part 1 - Communications
Mark Thomas
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNThe KGB, the Computer, and Me.
DragonFartOutLoud
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNEdsger W. Dijkstra on Dutch TV
Yin Wang
Recommended 2× on HN · 2015–2020
3 mo on HNThe Computer Chronicles - Gary Kildall Special (1995)
The Computer Chronicles
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2022
3 mo on HNThe Only Famous Motherboard
Cathode Ray Dude - CRD
Recommended 3× on HN · 2025–2025
3 mo on HNThe KGB, The Computer and Me - The Cuckoo’s Egg Story
Australian Phoenix CyberOps
Recommended 3× on HN · 2024–2025
3 mo on HNHow the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
Tom Scott
Recommended 4× on HN · 2022–2026
2 mo on HNPOLYBIUS - The Video Game That Doesn't Exist
Ahoy
Recommended 2× on HN · 2023–2026
3 mo on HNThe Story of Tetris
Gaming Historian
Recommended 4× on HN · 2022–2023
3 mo on HNBirth of The Transistor: A video history of Japan's electronic industry. (Part 1)
RC286
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2022
3 mo on HNHow I Upgraded My iPhone Memory 800% - in Shenzhen, China
Strange Parts
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2021
3 mo on HNWhat's It Really like Working at Valve?
People Make Games
Recommended 3× on HN · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNChina’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World
VICE News
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNSeymour Papert
Seth Morabito
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2017
2 mo on HNPart 1 - Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center - AT&T Archives
AT&T Tech Channel
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2024
2 mo on HNBBS The.Documentary Part 4 - Fidonet
bbsers
Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2019
2 mo on HNThe Super-Fast Logistics of Delivering Blood By Drone
Wendover Productions
Recommended 2× on HN · 2019–2023
2 mo on HNRiot On Documentary (2002)
Caroline bruins
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022