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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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3 mo on HNDo we see reality as it is? | Donald Hoffman | TED
TED
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
3 mo on HNLinux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016
GitHub
3 HN recommender · 2016–2023
3 mo on HNRyan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation
stri8ted
3 HN recommender · 2016–2023
2 mo on HNTracy Young Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015
Y Combinator
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNClasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
3 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup “Writing Good C++14”
CppCon
2 HN recommender · 2016–2018
3 mo on HNRon Vale (UCSF, HHMI) 1: Molecular Motor Proteins
Science Communication Lab
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
3 mo on HNBlack Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies
Black Hat
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
3 mo on HNEmojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App
Tom Scott
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
3 mo on HN"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell
Strange Loop Conference
2 HN recommender · 2016–2023
3 mo on HNRustConf 2016 - A Modern Editor Built in Rust by Raph Levien
Confreaks
4 HN recommender · 2016–2018
3 mo on HNWhy Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
@Scale
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
3 mo on HNErlang Factory SF 2016 Keynote Phoenix and Elm – Making the Web Functional
Erlang Solutions
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
3 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Timur Doumler “C++ in the Audio Industry”
CppCon
3 HN recommender · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNFind your primal posture and sit without back pain: Esther Gokhale at TEDxStanford
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2016–2018
3 mo on HNWhat I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services • Matt Ranney • GOTO 2016
GOTO Conferences
3 HN recommender · 2016–2023
3 mo on HNJoscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)
Joscha Bach
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNThe Unix Chainsaw - Gary Bernhardt
timmonta
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNArithmetic, Population and Energy - FULL LENGTH
kip399
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
3 mo on HNJonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
TED
3 HN recommender · 2016–2018
2 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)
DEFCONConference
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HN"Understanding Burnout," Prof. Christina Maslach (U.C. Berkeley)
Thriving In Science
2 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNTuesday @ 1130 ISA Shootout – a Comparison of RISC V, ARM, and x86 Chris Celio, UC Berkeley V2
RISC-V International
2 HN recommender · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNRethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015
Infosys Foundation USA
2 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNEric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Fortune Debate, 2012
kykeon
2 HN recommender · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNObject-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example
Brian Will
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNPhilip Wadler - Propositions as Types (Lambda Days 2016)
Erlang Solutions
2 HN recommender · 2016–2021
2 mo on HNLet's teach for mastery -- not test scores | Sal Khan
TED
2 HN recommender · 2016–2018
2 mo on HN"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge
Strange Loop Conference
2 HN recommender · 2016–2017
2 mo on HNIntroducing SILE: A New Typesetting System
lathosjp
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HN"Eve" by Chris Granger
Strange Loop Conference
2 HN recommender · 2016–2023
2 mo on HNCory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
2 HN recommender · 2016–2024
2 mo on HN"Code is the Easy Part" by Evan Czaplicki
elm-conf
2 HN recommender · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNDebugging The Web (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)
Chrome for Developers
2 HN recommender · 2016–2018
2 mo on HNMacworld 1997: The return of Steve Jobs
JC
2 HN recommender · 2016–2026
2 mo on HNCppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part II"
CppCon
2 HN recommender · 2016–2019