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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2 mo on HNObject-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example
Brian Will
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNPhilip Wadler - Propositions as Types (Lambda Days 2016)
Erlang Solutions
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2021
2 mo on HN"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2017
2 mo on HNIntroducing SILE: A New Typesetting System
lathosjp
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
2 mo on HN"Eve" by Chris Granger
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2023
2 mo on HNCory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2024
2 mo on HN"Code is the Easy Part" by Evan Czaplicki
elm-conf
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNDebugging The Web (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)
Chrome for Developers
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2018
2 mo on HNMacworld 1997: The return of Steve Jobs
JC
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2026
2 mo on HNCppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part II"
CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2019
2 mo on HN01 The History of Standard ML: Ideas, Principles, Culture
ICFP Video
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
2 mo on HN"Agility & Robustness: Clojure spec" by Stuart Halloway
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “Declarative Control Flow"
CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNSophie Wilson - The Future of Microprocessors
Erlang Solutions
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2018
2 mo on HNDEFCON 19: Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation (w speaker)
Christiaan008
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2024
2 mo on HNChris Seaton @ VMSS16: JRuby+Truffle: Why it’s Important to Optimise the Tricky Parts
softdevteamuk
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2019
2 mo on HN[Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X
HackersOnBoard
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2023
2 mo on HNBetrFS: A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System
Microsoft Research
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2023
2 mo on HNZFS Native Encryption by Tom Caputi
OpenZFS
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNAnalyzing Programs with Z3
Compose Conference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2021
2 mo on HNAnthony Scopatz - xonsh - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2025
2 mo on HNAntichamber: An Overnight Success, Seven Years In The Making
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2024
2 mo on HNCS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005
CS50
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2025
1 mo on HN'Fastware' - Andrei Alexandrescu [ ACCU 2016 ]
ACCU Conference
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2021
1 mo on HNAutonomous Car - what goes into sensing for autonomous driving?
Mobileye
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2016
1 mo on HNGCP NEXT 2016: Day 1 Keynote (Mar 23)
Google Cloud Tech
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2019
1 mo on HNGopherfest 2015 | Go Proverbs with Rob Pike
The Go Programming Language
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2026
1 mo on HN115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go by Dan Tentler
Devoxx
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2025
1 mo on HNReact.js Conf 2016 - Lightning Talks - Elie Rotenberg
Meta Developers
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2019
1 mo on HNJoanna Rutkowska: Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
media.ccc.de
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2019
1 mo on HNSeymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL)
UC Berkeley Events
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2026
1 mo on HNH2K2 (2002): "The Conscience of a Hacker"
Channel2600
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2025
1 mo on HNRobert Moss: Julia and the Next Generation Airborne Collision Avoidance System
The Julia Programming Language
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2024
1 mo on HNSteve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh
Computer History Museum
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2024
1 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Robinson and Mitchell - Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline
DEFCONConference
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2022
1 mo on HNCANDO: A Compiled Programming Language for Computer-Aided Nanomaterial Design and Optimization
European Lisp Symposium
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2019