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Best Tech Talks 2014, Ranked by Hacker News

First recommended on Hacker News in 2014, still worth watching: these 90 tech talks and lectures earned 368 recommendations across the years.

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4 mo on HN

RacketCon 2013: Dan Liebgold - Racket on the Playstation 3? It's Not What you Think!

Racket

Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2022

2 mo on HN

DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles

DEFCONConference

Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2025

2 mo on HN

Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes

Next Day Video

Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2023

2 mo on HN

Bringing the Unix Philosophy to Big Data by Bryan Cantrill: FutureStack13

New Relic

Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2022

2 mo on HN

illumos day 2014: The Dream is Alive! Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel

illumos

Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2019

2 mo on HN

Dynamic Languages Wizards Series - Panel on Language Design

Eduardo Cavazos

Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2025

2 mo on HN

Black Hat 2013 - OPSEC Failures of Spies

HackersOnBoard

Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2019

2 mo on HN

Reinventing Organizations

Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2020

2 mo on HN

Oculus Connect Keynote: John Carmack

Meta VR

Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2021

2 mo on HN

Assholes are Ruining Your Project. Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk).

Tom Raftery

Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2023

2 mo on HN

Stuart Sierra - Components Just Enough Structure

ClojureTV

Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2015

2 mo on HN

NSA operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report - FOSDEM 2014

cnxlinux

Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2021

2 mo on HN

Psp collections: views and more by Paul Phillips

AI Council

Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2018

2 mo on HN

dotScale 2014 - Robert Kennedy - Life in the Trenches of healthcare.gov

dotconferences

Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2015

2 mo on HN

AWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)

Amazon Web Services

Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2020

2 mo on HN

Bloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell,Matt Evans

Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia

Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2015

Best Tech Talks 2014, Ranked by Hacker News

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Halide Talk

Mark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [JSConf2014]

RailsConf 2014 - Keynote: Writing Software by David Heinemeier Hansson

Literate Programming in the Large

"Why do you lock your door?" - RVASec 2012

ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack

Defcon 21 - Decapping Chips The Strike Easy Hard Way

Defeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)

Nordic.js 2014 • Douglas Crockford - The Better Parts

Cosmos - Carl Sagan - 4th Dimension

John Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013

Seymour Papert 1983

GDC 2010: Sid Meier Keynote - "Everything You Know is Wrong"

27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)

The User is Drunk

Defcon 21 - The Secret Life of SIM Cards

Defcon 20 - Dan Tentler - Drinking from the caffeine firehose we know as shodan

Free software, free society: Richard Stallman at TEDxGeneva 2014

Category Theory by Tom LaGatta

LibreSSL: The first 30 days, and what the Future Holds

RacketCon 2013: Dan Liebgold - Racket on the Playstation 3? It's Not What you Think!

DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles

Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes

Bringing the Unix Philosophy to Big Data by Bryan Cantrill: FutureStack13

illumos day 2014: The Dream is Alive! Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel

Dynamic Languages Wizards Series - Panel on Language Design

Black Hat 2013 - OPSEC Failures of Spies

Reinventing Organizations

Oculus Connect Keynote: John Carmack

Assholes are Ruining Your Project. Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk).

Stuart Sierra - Components Just Enough Structure

NSA operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report - FOSDEM 2014

Psp collections: views and more by Paul Phillips

dotScale 2014 - Robert Kennedy - Life in the Trenches of healthcare.gov

AWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)

Bloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell,Matt Evans