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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18 mo on HNIndistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips
Andor Gafotas
19 HN recommender · 2016–2024
12 mo on HNGeorge Lakoff: Moral Politics
University of California Television (UCTV)
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
11 mo on HNBehind the Scenes of iOS Security
Black Hat
9 HN recommender · 2016–2026
10 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"
Paul Stringer's Mobile Tech
10 HN recommender · 2016–2022
10 mo on HNBreakthrough in Nuclear Fusion? - Prof. Dennis Whyte
MIT Club of Northern California
11 HN recommender · 2016–2024
10 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”
CppCon
13 HN recommender · 2016–2024
9 mo on HNDr. Michael Greger | How Not To Die | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
8 HN recommender · 2016–2022
10 mo on HNHow to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)
thoughtbot
10 HN recommender · 2016–2025
9 mo on HNSpec-ulation Keynote - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
10 HN recommender · 2016–2024
9 mo on HNModern Dictionaries by Raymond Hettinger
SF Python
9 HN recommender · 2016–2025
9 mo on HNCategory Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy
Bartosz Milewski
11 HN recommender · 2016–2026
9 mo on HNAgile is Dead • Pragmatic Dave Thomas • GOTO 2015
GOTO Conferences
11 HN recommender · 2016–2026
8 mo on HNAlan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)
Kenneth Friedman
8 HN recommender · 2016–2023
7 mo on HNBottom Up vs Top Down Design in Clojure - Mark Bastian
ClojureTV
5 HN recommender · 2016–2021
8 mo on HNJulia: to Lisp or not to Lisp?
European Lisp Symposium
4 HN recommender · 2016–2022
7 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C"
CppCon
7 HN recommender · 2016–2025
7 mo on HNMastering the Vim Language
thoughtbot
5 HN recommender · 2016–2026
7 mo on HNGoogle Self-Driving Car Project | SXSW Interactive 2016
SXSW
2 HN recommender · 2016–2018
7 mo on HNMillennials Don't Exist! Adam Conover at Deep Shift
Adam Conover
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023
6 mo on HNMonktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering
RedMonk Tech Events
6 HN recommender · 2016–2026
6 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Zoz - Don't Fuck It Up!
DEFCONConference
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
5 mo on HNDemystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard Susskind
Stanford
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
6 mo on HNBryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones
PapersWeLove
6 HN recommender · 2016–2025
5 mo on HNDr. Robert Zubrin with a brilliant answer to "Why Should We Go To Mars?"
Jamin Gray
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
6 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Deviant Ollam & Howard Payne - Elevator Hacking - From the Pit to the Penthouse
DEFCONConference
5 HN recommender · 2016–2026
7 mo on HNdotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
dotconferences
7 HN recommender · 2016–2023
5 mo on HN2016 - On The Shoulders Of Giants - Damian Conway
The Perl and Raku Conference - Greenville, SC 2026
4 HN recommender · 2016–2021
6 mo on HNJack Szostak (Harvard/HHMI) Part 1: The Origin of Cellular Life on Earth
Science Communication Lab
6 HN recommender · 2016–2021
6 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Chris Rock - I Will Kill You
DEFCONConference
7 HN recommender · 2016–2025
6 mo on HNWhere in the world is it easiest to get rich? | Harald Eia | TEDxOslo
TEDx Talks
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023
5 mo on HNArithmetic, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett
lXlSalemlXl
6 HN recommender · 2016–2023
5 mo on HN"I See What You Mean" by Peter Alvaro
Strange Loop Conference
6 HN recommender · 2016–2019
4 mo on HNK Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
4 HN recommender · 2016–2021
5 mo on HNJames Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)
The Riverbends Channel
5 HN recommender · 2016–2024
5 mo on HNChristopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture
Peter Petrash
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
5 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton
Amazon Web Services
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023