Tech talks
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.
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5 mo on HNImmediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - 2005
Casey Muratori
Recommended 5× on HN · 2017–2024
4 mo on HN!!Con 2017: HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! by Kevin Chen
Confreaks
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2025
4 mo on HNReplace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux - Ronald Minnich, Google
The Linux Foundation
Recommended 6× on HN · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNMatt Might - Winning the War on Error Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer
Curry On!
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2019
4 mo on HNFour Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr.
Google TechTalks
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2023
4 mo on HNBret Victor - Seeing Spaces
Colin McDonnell
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2024
3 mo on HNFour Dimensional Maths: Things to See and Hear in the Fourth Dimension - with Matt Parker
The Royal Institution
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2022
4 mo on HNWhy the world population won’t exceed 11 billion | Hans Rosling | TGS.ORG
THINK Global School
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNDEF CON 18 - Moxie Marlinspike - Changing Threats To Privacy: From TIA to Google
DEFCONConference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNBlockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money [Classic Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Talk]
aantonop
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2017
4 mo on HNJ B Rainsberger Integrated Tests Are A Scam HD
Christopher Cabanne
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNLin Clark - A Cartoon Intro to Fiber - React Conf 2017
Meta Developers
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2018
4 mo on HN"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2024
3 mo on HNCgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from?
Docker
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2023
4 mo on HN"A (Not So Gentle) Introduction To Systems Programming In ATS" by Aditya Siram
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Chandler Carruth “Going Nowhere Faster”
CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2026
3 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets
Amazon Web Services
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2020
3 mo on HNA visual guide to Bayesian thinking
Julia Galef
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Dan Saks “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++”
CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNMath Encounters -- Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling -- Colin Wright (Presentation)
National Museum of Mathematics
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2026
3 mo on HNArmin Ronacher - A Python for Future Generations
EuroPython Conference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2020
3 mo on HNLecture 1: Probability and Counting | Statistics 110
Harvard University
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNLecture 1 | Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
Stanford University School of Engineering
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “C++ atomics, from basic to advanced. What do they really do?”
CppCon
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNServo Architecture: Safety and Performance
linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2017
3 mo on HNBruce Hauman - Developing ClojureScript With Figwheel
ClojureTV
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNJohn Carmack Tech Talk with UMKC-SCE
UMKC School of Science and Engineering
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNThe Power of Big Data and Psychographics | 2016 Concordia Annual Summit
Concordia
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2026
3 mo on HNEfficient Bayesian inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo -- Michael Betancourt (Part 1)
MLSS Iceland 2014
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2024
3 mo on HNSolid Ground // Saša Jurić
EMPEX Conference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNNVScene 2015 Session: How to Create Content with Signed Distance Functions (Johann Korndörfer)
NVScene
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNLecture 7: Introduction to Galois Fields for the AES by Christof Paar
Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2020
3 mo on HNAndrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014
O'Reilly
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2024
3 mo on HNHigh Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle Drake
PDX Node
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2020
2 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Herb Sutter “Meta: Thoughts on generative C++”
CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2020
3 mo on HNThe Search for the Perfect Door - Deviant Ollam
Shakacon LLC
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2023