Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2016, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2016, still worth watching: these 90 tech talks and lectures earned 336 recommendations across the years.
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18 mo on HNIndistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips
Andor Gafotas
Recommended 19× on HN · 2016–2024
10 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"
Paul Stringer's Mobile Tech
Recommended 10× on HN · 2016–2022
10 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”
CppCon
Recommended 13× on HN · 2016–2024
10 mo on HNHow to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)
thoughtbot
Recommended 10× on HN · 2016–2025
9 mo on HNSpec-ulation Keynote - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
Recommended 10× on HN · 2016–2024
9 mo on HNModern Dictionaries by Raymond Hettinger
SF Python
Recommended 9× on HN · 2016–2025
9 mo on HNCategory Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy
Bartosz Milewski
Recommended 11× on HN · 2016–2026
9 mo on HNAgile is Dead • Pragmatic Dave Thomas • GOTO 2015
GOTO Conferences
Recommended 11× on HN · 2016–2026
8 mo on HNAlan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)
Kenneth Friedman
Recommended 8× on HN · 2016–2023
7 mo on HNBottom Up vs Top Down Design in Clojure - Mark Bastian
ClojureTV
Recommended 5× on HN · 2016–2021
8 mo on HNJulia: to Lisp or not to Lisp?
European Lisp Symposium
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2022
7 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C"
CppCon
Recommended 7× on HN · 2016–2025
7 mo on HNMastering the Vim Language
thoughtbot
Recommended 5× on HN · 2016–2026
6 mo on HNMonktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering
RedMonk Tech Events
Recommended 6× on HN · 2016–2026
6 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Zoz - Don't Fuck It Up!
DEFCONConference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2021
6 mo on HNBryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones
PapersWeLove
Recommended 6× on HN · 2016–2025
6 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Deviant Ollam & Howard Payne - Elevator Hacking - From the Pit to the Penthouse
DEFCONConference
Recommended 5× on HN · 2016–2026
7 mo on HNdotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
dotconferences
Recommended 7× on HN · 2016–2023
5 mo on HN2016 - On The Shoulders Of Giants - Damian Conway
The Perl and Raku Conference - Greenville, SC 2026
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2021
6 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Chris Rock - I Will Kill You
DEFCONConference
Recommended 7× on HN · 2016–2025
5 mo on HNArithmetic, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett
lXlSalemlXl
Recommended 6× on HN · 2016–2023
5 mo on HN"I See What You Mean" by Peter Alvaro
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 6× on HN · 2016–2019
4 mo on HNK Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2021
5 mo on HNChristopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture
Peter Petrash
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2026
5 mo on HNConstraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain — Runar Bjarnason
Scala World
Recommended 5× on HN · 2016–2025
4 mo on HNZFS: The Last Word in File Systems Part 1
Deirdré Straughan
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2026
4 mo on HNAlan Kay - Programming and Scaling
Colin McDonnell
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2026
5 mo on HNCheng Lou - On the Spectrum of Abstraction at react-europe 2016
ReactEurope
Recommended 5× on HN · 2016–2022
5 mo on HNclojure.core/typing - Matt Adereth
ClojureTV
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2023
4 mo on HNEmacs For Writers
thoughtbot
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2024
5 mo on HNGolang UK Conf. 2016 - Liz Rice - What is a container, really? Let's write one in Go from scratch
GopherCon UK
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2019
4 mo on HNGreg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing - Code on the Beach 2014
Code on the Beach
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2022
4 mo on HNDasher: information-efficient text entry
Google TechTalks
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2025
4 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Herb Sutter “Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default.”
CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2025
4 mo on HNSid Meier's Psychology of Game Design
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2019
4 mo on HNJohn Hughes - Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane
ClojureTV
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2026