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Best Tech Talks 2017, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2017, still worth watching: these 188 talks and lectures earned 649 recommendations across the years.
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5 mo on HN"Two incompatible sacred values in American universities" Jon Haidt, Hayek Lecture Series
Duke University Department of Political Science
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
6 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Carl Cook “When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++”
CppCon
5 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HNPure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans • GOTO 2016
GOTO Conferences
5 HN recommender · 2017–2025
4 mo on HNCliff Click @ VMSS16: Bits of Advice For the VM Writer
softdevteamuk
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
5 mo on HNWhy Vertical Farming Won't Save the Planet
Utah State University Extension
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HNOur democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it | Larry Lessig | TEDxMidAtlantic
TEDx Talks
4 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HNKim Nilsson - Cracking MtGox
TheBitcoinArmy
5 HN recommender · 2017–2021
5 mo on HNSimon Peyton-Jones: Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journey
Churchill College, University of Cambridge
5 HN recommender · 2017–2024
5 mo on HNThe Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth
The Royal Institution
4 HN recommender · 2017–2018
5 mo on HNBuilding a Better Web Browser - James Mickens - Harvard CS Colloquium 2015
Paul Irish
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
4 mo on HNSQLite: The Database at the Edge of the Network with Dr. Richard Hipp
Method
4 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HNPreface | MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus
MIT OpenCourseWare
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HNImmediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - 2005
Casey Muratori
5 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HN1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)
National Capital Area Skeptics (NCAS)
5 HN recommender · 2017–2025
4 mo on HN!!Con 2017: HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! by Kevin Chen
Confreaks
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
4 mo on HNReplace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux - Ronald Minnich, Google
The Linux Foundation
6 HN recommender · 2017–2023
4 mo on HN[AUDIO FIXED] The Truth Cannot be Sexist - Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences
Gravitahn
6 HN recommender · 2017–2018
5 mo on HNThe mathematics of weight loss | Ruben Meerman | TEDxQUT (edited version)
TEDx Talks
6 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HNHow I overcame alcoholism | Claudia Christian | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNMatt Might - Winning the War on Error Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer
Curry On!
3 HN recommender · 2017–2019
4 mo on HNEverything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari | TED
TED
5 HN recommender · 2017–2025
4 mo on HNDr. Jason Fung - 'The Aetiology of Obesity'
Low Carb Down Under
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
4 mo on HNFour Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr.
Google TechTalks
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
4 mo on HNBret Victor - Seeing Spaces
Colin McDonnell
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HNGermany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America | Jeff Rosen | TEDxMountainViewHighSchool
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
4 mo on HNMilton Friedman - The Real World Effects Of Unions
LibertyPen
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNFour Dimensional Maths: Things to See and Hear in the Fourth Dimension - with Matt Parker
The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
4 mo on HNWhy the world population won’t exceed 11 billion | Hans Rosling | TGS.ORG
THINK Global School
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNDEF CON 18 - Moxie Marlinspike - Changing Threats To Privacy: From TIA to Google
DEFCONConference
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
4 mo on HNA reality check on renewables - David MacKay
TED-Ed
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNAndres Duany Lecture. Suburban Sprawl.
Andriy Kosetsky
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HNBlockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money [Classic Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Talk]
aantonop
3 HN recommender · 2017–2017
4 mo on HNJ B Rainsberger Integrated Tests Are A Scam HD
Christopher Cabanne
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNLin Clark - A Cartoon Intro to Fiber - React Conf 2017
Meta Developers
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
4 mo on HNBlack hole Firewalls - with Sean Carroll and Jennifer Ouellette
The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
4 mo on HN"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore
Strange Loop Conference
4 HN recommender · 2017–2024