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Best Tech Talks 2013, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2013, still worth watching: these 112 talks and lectures earned 420 recommendations across the years.
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18 mo on HNRuby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich
Confreaks
17 HN recommender · 2013–2026
12 mo on HNJustice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"
Harvard University
11 HN recommender · 2013–2025
12 mo on HNJuice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho
grapefrukt
12 HN recommender · 2013–2025
11 mo on HNBret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Rui Oliveira
12 HN recommender · 2013–2025
10 mo on HNCrockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years
YUI Library
10 HN recommender · 2013–2022
10 mo on HNThe Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013)
Mladen Mijatov
13 HN recommender · 2013–2026
10 mo on HNRuby Midwest 2011 - Keynote: Architecture the Lost Years by Robert Martin
Confreaks
10 HN recommender · 2013–2022
9 mo on HNUsing Python to Code by Voice
Next Day Video
12 HN recommender · 2013–2025
9 mo on HNWe the People, and the Republic we must reclaim | Lawrence Lessig
TED
8 HN recommender · 2013–2026
9 mo on HNThe Language of the System - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
10 HN recommender · 2013–2025
9 mo on HNHow to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory
TED
9 HN recommender · 2013–2023
7 mo on HN[Linux.conf.au 2013] - Git For Ages 4 And Up
HackersOnBoard
8 HN recommender · 2013–2023
8 mo on HNDebt: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
8 HN recommender · 2013–2024
8 mo on HN#HITB2012KUL D1T3 - The Grugq - OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd
Hack In The Box Security Conference
9 HN recommender · 2013–2024
7 mo on HNRichard Feynman Computer Science Lecture - Hardware, Software and Heuristics
Muon Ray
8 HN recommender · 2013–2026
6 mo on HNFunctional Composition - Chris Ford
ClojureTV
6 HN recommender · 2013–2023
6 mo on HNRichard Feynman - The.Character of Physical Law - Part 1 The Law of Gravitation (full version)
Tinkerin' Thinkers
6 HN recommender · 2013–2022
7 mo on HNMountainWest RubyConf 2013 Devs and Depression by Greg Baugues
Confreaks
7 HN recommender · 2013–2020
7 mo on HNJonathan Blow: Game design: the medium is the message
CreativeMornings HQ
7 HN recommender · 2013–2020
6 mo on HNChicken chicken chicken
Yoram Bauman
5 HN recommender · 2013–2026
6 mo on HNPaxos lecture (Raft user study)
Diego Ongaro
6 HN recommender · 2013–2024
5 mo on HNThe best stats you've ever seen | Hans Rosling
TED
5 HN recommender · 2013–2026
6 mo on HN7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0
GoogleTalksArchive
5 HN recommender · 2013–2023
5 mo on HN4 2 1 Christopher Domas The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization
Adrian Crenshaw
7 HN recommender · 2013–2026
6 mo on HNUser-level threads....... with threads. - Paul Turner - Google
Linux Plumbers Conference
6 HN recommender · 2013–2024
5 mo on HNAdvanced Topics in Programming Languages: A Lock-Free Hash Table
GoogleTalksArchive
4 HN recommender · 2013–2024
6 mo on HNSimplicity Ain't Easy - Stuart Halloway
ClojureTV
5 HN recommender · 2013–2017
5 mo on HNClojure Concurrency - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
5 HN recommender · 2013–2023
5 mo on HNBitcoin 2012 London: Mike Hearn
Independent POV
6 HN recommender · 2013–2014
5 mo on HNAlan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet
Jeff Gonis
6 HN recommender · 2013–2025
5 mo on HNMike Monteiro - "Fuck you pay me" (PT Br)
Montalvo Machado
6 HN recommender · 2013–2017
5 mo on HN[JSConfUS 2013] Steven Wittens: Making WebGL Dance
JSConf
5 HN recommender · 2013–2021
4 mo on HNDtrace Review
GoogleTalksArchive
4 HN recommender · 2013–2026
5 mo on HNRails Conf 2013 The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz
Confreaks
5 HN recommender · 2013–2019
4 mo on HNRuby Manor 3 - Programming with Nothing by Tom Stuart
Confreaks
4 HN recommender · 2013–2019
5 mo on HNJohn Carmack's keynote at Quakecon 2013 part 4
Kostiantyn Kostin
5 HN recommender · 2013–2025