Tech talks
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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3 mo on HNMaking Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote
O'Reilly
3 HN recommender · 2017–2017
3 mo on HNRAAIS 2017 - Simon Knowles, Co-Founder and CTO of Graphcore
The Research and Applied AI Summit - RAAIS
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNMaking R run Fast - Jan Vitek
John O'Neill
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNJake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers - PyCon 2016.mp4
PyCon 2016
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNHow to Survive in Gamedev for Eleven Years Without a Hit
GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNDEFCON 19: Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! (w speaker)
Christiaan008
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNGopherCon 2016: The Design of the Go Assembler - Rob Pike
Gopher Academy
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNLec 1 | MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2010
MIT OpenCourseWare
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
2 mo on HNDavid Heinemeier Hansson-Unlearn Your MBA (Entire talk)
Entrepreneurship.org
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNWhat if Current Foundations of Mathematics are Inconsistent? | Vladimir Voevodsky
Institute for Advanced Study
3 HN recommender · 2017–2019
3 mo on HNA Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click
Devoxx
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNConsole Hacking 2016 (33c3)
media.ccc.de
4 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HNHoward Payne & Deviant Ollam - This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key
DeviantOllam
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNStanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic
Stanford Online
5 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Controversial Facts about IQ
Bite-sized Philosophy
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNMIT Godel Escher Bach Lecture 1
jasonofthel33t
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNThe Original Skunk Works – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2017
LeadDev
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNWhy city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed | Roman Mars
TED
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNLecture 1 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)
Stanford
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNHow I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code
ExileLord
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HN2017 Personality 18: Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I
Jordan B Peterson
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNGopherfest 2017 | Upspin with Rob Pike
The Go Programming Language
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNKubernetes for SysAdmins | Kelsey Hightower at PuppetConf | Talk & Demo
Perforce Puppet
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
2 mo on HNHow to Land the Space Shuttle... from Space
Bret
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin
Program on Entrepreneurship
2 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions
Bite-sized Philosophy
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNBarliman: trying the halting problem backwards, blindfolded - William Byrd, Greg Rosenblatt
ClojureTV
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNDEF CON 24 - Chris Rock - How to Overthrow a Government
DEFCONConference
2 HN recommender · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNHere I Stand, at Age 80
TheTedNelson
2 HN recommender · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale
Stanford Online
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
2 mo on HNAndrew Ng: Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity
Stanford Graduate School of Business
2 HN recommender · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNRustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy
Confreaks
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNMy personal fight against the modern laptop
linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNKeynote: Flutter (Dart Developer Summit 2016)
Google for Developers
2 HN recommender · 2017–2018
2 mo on HNSeminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246)
Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNCopyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley | TEDxMaastricht
TEDx Talks
2 HN recommender · 2017–2026