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Best Tech Talks 2015, Ranked by Hacker News

First recommended on Hacker News in 2015, still worth watching: these 93 tech talks and lectures earned 366 recommendations across the years.

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15 mo on HN

RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz

Confreaks

Recommended 15× on HN · 2015–2025

14 mo on HN

What the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU

JSConf

Recommended 16× on HN · 2015–2025

14 mo on HN

A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt

Enthought

Recommended 15× on HN · 2015–2026

9 mo on HN

Ron Pressler - Pull Push: Please stop polluting our imperative languages with pure concepts-Curry On

Curry On!

Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2024

3 mo on HN

Om Next - David Nolen

ClojureTV

Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2015

3 mo on HN

Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2022

3 mo on HN

DEFCON 17: That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars

Christiaan008

Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2026

4 mo on HN

Keynote - JSON Graph: Reactive REST at Netflix

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Recommended 4× on HN · 2015–2023

4 mo on HN

Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

Colin McDonnell

Recommended 4× on HN · 2015–2026

Best Tech Talks 2015, Ranked by Hacker News

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RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz

What the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU

A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt

Jonathan Blow - How to program independent games - CSUA Speech

"Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza" by Martin Kleppmann

"How NOT to Measure Latency" by Gil Tene

Ruby Conf 12 - Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt

Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming

Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me

CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"

"Propositions as Types" by Philip Wadler

Dan Abramov - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel at react-europe 2015

Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey

Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity

How not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling

Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)

"Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks

Introduction to NoSQL • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2012

Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs

In Search of Tomorrow

Evan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On

Michael Stonebraker | Big Data is (at least) Four Different Problems

"Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp" by Aditya Siram

Leslie Lamport: Thinking Above the Code

Zach Tellman - Everything Will Flow

GPUs to Mars: Full-Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine

React.js Conf 2015 - Immutable Data and React

CppCon 2015: Herb Sutter "Writing Good C++14... By Default"

re:publica 2015 - Aral Balkan: Beyond The Camera Panopticon

Debugging with the Scientific Method - Stuart Halloway

Ron Pressler - Pull Push: Please stop polluting our imperative languages with pure concepts-Curry On

Om Next - David Nolen

Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google

DEFCON 17: That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars

Keynote - JSON Graph: Reactive REST at Netflix

Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable