Tech talks

Best Tech Talks 2015, Ranked by Hacker News

First recommended on Hacker News in 2015, still worth watching: these 99 tech talks and lectures earned 455 recommendations across the years.

‹ 2014 2016 ›All tech talks

Lecture×Evergreen only×

5 mo on HN

Math Encounters -- Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling -- Colin Wright (Presentation)

National Museum of Mathematics

Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2026

3 mo on HN

Lecture 1: Probability and Counting | Statistics 110

Harvard University

Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2018

3 mo on HN

Cosmos - Carl Sagan - 4th Dimension

carlsagandotcom

Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2025

3 mo on HN

Seymour Papert 1983

Cynthia Solomon

Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2017

3 mo on HN

1. A strange determinant

Timothy Gowers

Recommended 3× on HN · 2022–2026

3 mo on HN

The "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch

Gabriel Robins

Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2021

3 mo on HN

Efficient Bayesian inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo -- Michael Betancourt (Part 1)

MLSS Iceland 2014

Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2024

3 mo on HN

Hamming, "n-Dimensional Space" (April 14, 1995)

securitylectures

Recommended 3× on HN · 2022–2024

3 mo on HN

Lecture 7: Introduction to Galois Fields for the AES by Christof Paar

Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar

Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2020

3 mo on HN

Peter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

UBC Computer Science

Recommended 3× on HN · 2012–2026

3 mo on HN

17. Succinct Structures I

MIT OpenCourseWare

Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2022

3 mo on HN

1. Introduction, Finite Automata, Regular Expressions

MIT OpenCourseWare

Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2025

3 mo on HN

Lecture 1: Introduction to Information Theory

Jakob Foerster

Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2024

3 mo on HN

Lec 1 | MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2010

MIT OpenCourseWare

Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2018

3 mo on HN

What if Current Foundations of Mathematics are Inconsistent? | Vladimir Voevodsky

Institute for Advanced Study

Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2019

3 mo on HN

CS480/680 Lecture 19: Attention and Transformer Networks

Pascal Poupart

Recommended 3× on HN · 2023–2023

3 mo on HN

MIT Godel Escher Bach Lecture 1

jasonofthel33t

Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2021

Best Tech Talks 2015, Ranked by Hacker News

Sort by

Type

Features

Exponential Growth Arithmetic, Population and Energy, Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

Simon Peyton-Jones: Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journey

Let's build the GPT Tokenizer

Preface | MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus

Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - 2005

Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming

Real Analysis, Lecture 1: Constructing the Rational Numbers

Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4

LSTM is dead. Long Live Transformers!

Raft lecture (Raft user study)

Building Software Systems At Google and Lessons Learned

Lecture 19: Dynamic Programming I: Fibonacci, Shortest Paths

Lecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)

2. Behavioral Evolution

Building Your Own Dynamic Language

Colossus - The Greatest Secret in the History of Computing

Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction

John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture

Donald B. Gillies Lecture: Dr. Michael Stonebraker

Math Encounters -- Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling -- Colin Wright (Presentation)

Lecture 1: Probability and Counting | Statistics 110

Cosmos - Carl Sagan - 4th Dimension

Seymour Papert 1983

1. A strange determinant

The "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch

Efficient Bayesian inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo -- Michael Betancourt (Part 1)

Hamming, "n-Dimensional Space" (April 14, 1995)

Lecture 7: Introduction to Galois Fields for the AES by Christof Paar

Peter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

17. Succinct Structures I

1. Introduction, Finite Automata, Regular Expressions

Lecture 1: Introduction to Information Theory

Lec 1 | MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2010

What if Current Foundations of Mathematics are Inconsistent? | Vladimir Voevodsky

CS480/680 Lecture 19: Attention and Transformer Networks

MIT Godel Escher Bach Lecture 1