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Best Tech Talks 2017, Ranked by Hacker News

First recommended on Hacker News in 2017, still worth watching: these 124 tech talks and lectures earned 456 recommendations across the years.

‹ 2016 2018 ›All tech talks

16 mo on HN

RailsConf 2016 - Turbolinks 5: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Native! by Sam Stephenson

Confreaks

Recommended 6× on HN · 2017–2020

10 mo on HN

Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV

Recommended 10× on HN · 2017–2026

9 mo on HN

How I program C

Eskil Steenberg

Recommended 8× on HN · 2017–2025

8 mo on HN

DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome

DEFCONConference

Recommended 11× on HN · 2017–2023

8 mo on HN

Invited Talk - Guy Steele

ClojureTV

Recommended 7× on HN · 2017–2023

7 mo on HN

Break Me00 The MoVfuscator Turning mov into a soul crushing RE nightmare Christopher Domas

Adrian Crenshaw

Recommended 6× on HN · 2017–2026

7 mo on HN

Conflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency • Martin Kleppmann • GOTO 2016

GOTO Conferences

Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2020

8 mo on HN

Breaking the x86 Instruction Set

Black Hat

Recommended 9× on HN · 2017–2022

7 mo on HN

Animations of unseeable biology | Drew Berry | TED

TED

Recommended 7× on HN · 2017–2025

7 mo on HN

CppCon 2017: Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente “Postmodern immutable data structures”

CppCon

Recommended 5× on HN · 2017–2025

6 mo on HN

On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (SIGBOVIK)

Tom Wildenhain

Recommended 8× on HN · 2017–2025

7 mo on HN

CppCon 2017: Titus Winters “C++ as a "Live at Head" Language”

CppCon

Recommended 7× on HN · 2017–2022

6 mo on HN

The Clean Architecture in Python

Next Day Video

Recommended 5× on HN · 2017–2021

5 mo on HN

DOOM: Behind the Music

GDC Festival of Gaming

Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2023

6 mo on HN

Bret Victor - The Humane Representation of Thought

Colin McDonnell

Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2025

6 mo on HN

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci

TED

Recommended 6× on HN · 2017–2026

6 mo on HN

Alex Evans at Umbra Ignite 2015: Learning From Failure

Media Molecule

Recommended 7× on HN · 2017–2026

6 mo on HN

How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Stanford Online

Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2024

5 mo on HN

Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's Civilization

GDC Festival of Gaming

Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2021

5 mo on HN

Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"A Conjecture That Had To Be True" (2017)

Stanford Online

Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2023

6 mo on HN

CppCon 2017: Carl Cook “When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++”

CppCon

Recommended 5× on HN · 2017–2025

5 mo on HN

Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans • GOTO 2016

GOTO Conferences

Recommended 5× on HN · 2017–2025

4 mo on HN

Cliff Click @ VMSS16: Bits of Advice For the VM Writer

softdevteamuk

Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2021

4 mo on HN

Kim Nilsson - Cracking MtGox

TheBitcoinArmy

Recommended 5× on HN · 2017–2021

5 mo on HN

Simon Peyton-Jones: Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journey

Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Recommended 5× on HN · 2017–2024

5 mo on HN

Building a Better Web Browser - James Mickens - Harvard CS Colloquium 2015

Paul Irish

Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2023

4 mo on HN

SQLite: The Database at the Edge of the Network with Dr. Richard Hipp

Method

Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2024

4 mo on HN

Preface | MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus

MIT OpenCourseWare

Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2025

Best Tech Talks 2017, Ranked by Hacker News

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How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask framework

"Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman

CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “std::allocator...”

William Byrd on "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" [PWL NYC]

Bret Victor The Future of Programming

DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population

Velocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"

The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)

RailsConf 2016 - Turbolinks 5: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Native! by Sam Stephenson

Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey

How I program C

DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome

Invited Talk - Guy Steele

Break Me00 The MoVfuscator Turning mov into a soul crushing RE nightmare Christopher Domas

Conflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency • Martin Kleppmann • GOTO 2016

Breaking the x86 Instruction Set

Animations of unseeable biology | Drew Berry | TED

CppCon 2017: Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente “Postmodern immutable data structures”

On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (SIGBOVIK)

CppCon 2017: Titus Winters “C++ as a "Live at Head" Language”

The Clean Architecture in Python

DOOM: Behind the Music

Bret Victor - The Humane Representation of Thought

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci

Alex Evans at Umbra Ignite 2015: Learning From Failure

How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's Civilization

Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"A Conjecture That Had To Be True" (2017)

CppCon 2017: Carl Cook “When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++”

Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans • GOTO 2016

Cliff Click @ VMSS16: Bits of Advice For the VM Writer

Kim Nilsson - Cracking MtGox

Simon Peyton-Jones: Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journey

Building a Better Web Browser - James Mickens - Harvard CS Colloquium 2015

SQLite: The Database at the Edge of the Network with Dr. Richard Hipp

Preface | MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus