Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2016, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2016, still worth watching: these 176 talks and lectures earned 534 recommendations across the years.
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5 mo on HNConstraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain — Runar Bjarnason
Scala World
5 HN recommender · 2016–2025
4 mo on HNZFS: The Last Word in File Systems Part 1
Deirdré Straughan
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
5 mo on HNBreakout Session Presented by Dan Robinson of Heap at PGConf Silicon Valley 2015
Citus Data
4 HN recommender · 2016–2020
5 mo on HNLarry Hastings - Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023
5 mo on HNRun for your life! At a comfortable pace, and not too far: James O'Keefe at TEDxUMKC
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2016–2026
4 mo on HNAlan Kay - Programming and Scaling
Colin McDonnell
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
5 mo on HNInside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban | TED
TED
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023
5 mo on HNParticles, Fields and The Future of Physics - A Lecture by Sean Carroll
Fermilab
5 HN recommender · 2016–2022
5 mo on HNCheng Lou - On the Spectrum of Abstraction at react-europe 2016
ReactEurope
5 HN recommender · 2016–2022
5 mo on HNclojure.core/typing - Matt Adereth
ClojureTV
4 HN recommender · 2016–2023
4 mo on HNEmacs For Writers
thoughtbot
3 HN recommender · 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
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
4 mo on HNGreg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing - Code on the Beach 2014
Code on the Beach
4 HN recommender · 2016–2022
4 mo on HNDasher: information-efficient text entry
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
4 mo on HNProgressive Performance (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)
Chrome for Developers
4 HN recommender · 2016–2018
3 mo on HNHamming, Intro to The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (March 28, 1995)
securitylectures
3 HN recommender · 2016–2020
4 mo on HNMark Blyth ─ Global Trumpism
Watson School of International and Public Affairs
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
4 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Herb Sutter “Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default.”
CppCon
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
4 mo on HNSid Meier's Psychology of Game Design
GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2016–2019
4 mo on HNIs a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong
Stanford Health Care
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
4 mo on HNJohn Hughes - Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane
ClojureTV
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Chris Domas - Repsych: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNRailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something
Confreaks
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
4 mo on HNLecture 19: Dynamic Programming I: Fibonacci, Shortest Paths
MIT OpenCourseWare
4 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HN2. Behavioral Evolution
Stanford
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
4 mo on HNMoishe Lettvin - What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google
Etsy Eng (Etsy Engineering)
4 HN recommender · 2016–2025
3 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Sean Parent "Better Code: Data Structures"
CppCon
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
4 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior..."
CppCon
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNAstroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2016–2018
3 mo on HNHow to use one paper towel | Joe Smith | TEDxConcordiaUPortland
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2016–2025
3 mo on HNConnections between physics and deep learning
MITCBMM
3 HN recommender · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNClean Disruption - Why Energy & Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030 - Oslo, March 2016
Tony Seba
3 HN recommender · 2016–2018
3 mo on HNRailsConf 2016 - Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella
Confreaks
4 HN recommender · 2016–2016
3 mo on HNMountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk
Confreaks
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
3 mo on HNThe "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch
Gabriel Robins
4 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNThe Surprising History of Copyright and What It Means For...
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2016–2021