Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2016, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2016, still worth watching: these 128 tech talks and lectures earned 420 recommendations across the years.
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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 HNProgressive Performance (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)
Chrome for Developers
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2018
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
3 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Chris Domas - Repsych: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
DEFCONConference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNRailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something
Confreaks
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2024
4 mo on HNLecture 19: Dynamic Programming I: Fibonacci, Shortest Paths
MIT OpenCourseWare
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2021
3 mo on HN2. Behavioral Evolution
Stanford
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2021
4 mo on HNMoishe Lettvin - What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google
Etsy Eng (Etsy Engineering)
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2025
3 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Sean Parent "Better Code: Data Structures"
CppCon
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2021
4 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior..."
CppCon
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNConnections between physics and deep learning
MITCBMM
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNRailsConf 2016 - Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella
Confreaks
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2016
3 mo on HNMountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk
Confreaks
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2024
3 mo on HNThe "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch
Gabriel Robins
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNThe Surprising History of Copyright and What It Means For...
Google TechTalks
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNLinux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016
GitHub
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2023
3 mo on HNRyan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation
stri8ted
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2023
2 mo on HNClasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules
Google TechTalks
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
3 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup “Writing Good C++14”
CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2018
3 mo on HNBlack Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies
Black Hat
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2019
3 mo on HNEmojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App
Tom Scott
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2019
3 mo on HN"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2023
3 mo on HNRustConf 2016 - A Modern Editor Built in Rust by Raph Levien
Confreaks
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2018
3 mo on HNWhy Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
@Scale
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
3 mo on HNErlang Factory SF 2016 Keynote Phoenix and Elm – Making the Web Functional
Erlang Solutions
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
3 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Timur Doumler “C++ in the Audio Industry”
CppCon
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNWhat I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services • Matt Ranney • GOTO 2016
GOTO Conferences
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2023
3 mo on HNJoscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)
Joscha Bach
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNThe Unix Chainsaw - Gary Bernhardt
timmonta
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)
DEFCONConference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNTuesday @ 1130 ISA Shootout – a Comparison of RISC V, ARM, and x86 Chris Celio, UC Berkeley V2
RISC-V International
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNRethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015
Infosys Foundation USA
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNEric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Fortune Debate, 2012
kykeon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2020