Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2015, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2015, still worth watching: these 787 tech talks and lectures earned 3136 recommendations across the years.
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1 mo on HNClojure for Lisp Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2019
1 mo on HNJames Gosling - Simula: a personal journey
UiO Realfagsbiblioteket
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNDouglas Crockford: Monads and Gonads (YUIConf Evening Keynote)
YUI Library
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2020
1 mo on HN2013 Keynote: Chandler Carruth: Optimizing the Emergent Structures of C++
CppNow
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2018
1 mo on HNDon Knuth - Constraint Based Composition
ccrmalite1
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2020
1 mo on HNPrioritizing Technical Debt as if Time & Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019
GOTO Conferences
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2022
1 mo on HNChange w/ Jim Keller
Tenstorrent
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2023
1 mo on HNCaml Trading
Yaron Minsky
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2018
1 mo on HNMaciej Ceglowski - The Website Obesity Crisis [Web Directions 2015 Keynote]
cat stevens (catb0t)
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNRendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching
Graphics Programming Conference
Recommended 1× on HN · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNDavid Patterson - A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: History, Challenges and Opportunities
UBC Computer Science
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNThe Memory Sinkhole - Unleashing An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege Escalation
Black Hat
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2022
1 mo on HNAnathem | Neal Stephenson | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
Recommended 1× on HN · 2008–2024
1 mo on HNBadUSB - On Accessories that Turn Evil by Karsten Nohl + Jakob Lell
Black Hat
Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2019
1 mo on HNThe Principles of Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob Martin
NorfolkDevelopers
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2021
1 mo on HNWill Wright GDC 2005 Spore (The Future of Content) Remastered
Zeusmonomon
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2026
1 mo on HNVCF East: Xerox Star vs. Apple Lisa
Vintage Computer Federation
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2026
1 mo on HNThe Go Programming Language
Google TechTalks
Recommended 1× on HN · 2009–2026
1 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2012 - Meet the Go Team
Google for Developers
Recommended 2× on HN · 2012–2022
1 mo on HNKen Stanley: Discovery Without Objectives
fzambetta75
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2018
1 mo on HNOctober CincyRb - Jim Weirich on Decoupling from Rails
Launch Scout
Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2017
1 mo on HNMultithreading the Entire Destiny Engine
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2022
1 mo on HNMartin Kleppmann | Kafka Summit SF 2018 Keynote (Is Kafka a Database?)
Confluent, an IBM Company
Recommended 1× on HN · 2018–2020
1 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “High Performance Code 201: Hybrid Data Structures"
CppCon
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2021
1 mo on HNSteve Yegge, "What Would You Do With Your Own Google?" - OSCON Data 2011
O'Reilly
Recommended 1× on HN · 2011–2016
1 mo on HNSteve Jobs Introducing The iPhone At MacWorld 2007
superapple4ever
Recommended 1× on HN · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNExperiences Building Edge TPU with Chisel
Chisel
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2025
1 mo on HNInventing the Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2018
1 mo on HNBuilding the Software 2 0 Stack (Andrej Karpathy)
Databricks
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2022
1 mo on HNxkcd | Randall Munroe | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
Recommended 1× on HN · 2008–2026
1 mo on HNCondition Systems in an Exceptional Language - Chris Houser
ClojureTV
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2022