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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3 mo on HNPeter Rizun, Andrew Stone -- 1 GB Block Tests -- Scaling Bitcoin Stanford.
OnChain Scaling
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNMaking Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote
O'Reilly
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2017
3 mo on HNRAAIS 2017 - Simon Knowles, Co-Founder and CTO of Graphcore
The Research and Applied AI Summit - RAAIS
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNMaking R run Fast - Jan Vitek
John O'Neill
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNJake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers - PyCon 2016.mp4
PyCon 2016
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNHow to Survive in Gamedev for Eleven Years Without a Hit
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNDEFCON 19: Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! (w speaker)
Christiaan008
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNGopherCon 2016: The Design of the Go Assembler - Rob Pike
Gopher Academy
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNLec 1 | MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2010
MIT OpenCourseWare
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNWhat if Current Foundations of Mathematics are Inconsistent? | Vladimir Voevodsky
Institute for Advanced Study
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2019
3 mo on HNA Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click
Devoxx
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNConsole Hacking 2016 (33c3)
media.ccc.de
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2024
3 mo on HNHoward Payne & Deviant Ollam - This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key
DeviantOllam
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNStanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic
Stanford Online
Recommended 5× on HN · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNMIT Godel Escher Bach Lecture 1
jasonofthel33t
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNThe Original Skunk Works – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2017
LeadDev
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNHow I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code
ExileLord
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNGopherfest 2017 | Upspin with Rob Pike
The Go Programming Language
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNKubernetes for SysAdmins | Kelsey Hightower at PuppetConf | Talk & Demo
Perforce Puppet
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2022
2 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin
Program on Entrepreneurship
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions
Bite-sized Philosophy
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNBarliman: trying the halting problem backwards, blindfolded - William Byrd, Greg Rosenblatt
ClojureTV
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNDEF CON 24 - Chris Rock - How to Overthrow a Government
DEFCONConference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNHere I Stand, at Age 80
TheTedNelson
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale
Stanford Online
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2022
2 mo on HNAndrew Ng: Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNRustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy
Confreaks
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNMy personal fight against the modern laptop
linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNKeynote: Flutter (Dart Developer Summit 2016)
Google for Developers
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2018
2 mo on HNSeminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246)
Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNCopyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley | TEDxMaastricht
TEDx Talks
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2026
2 mo on HN2017 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: “Implementing Swift Generics ”
LLVM
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2026
2 mo on HNLisp at the Frontier of Computation, by Robert Smith at Rigetti Computing
Arthur Gleckler
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNGeoffrey Hinton talk "What is wrong with convolutional neural nets ?"
trwappers
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2018
2 mo on HNClutching at Random Straws, Matt Parker | LMS Popular Lectures 2010
London Mathematical Society
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2024
1 mo on HNThe Early Days of id Software
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2023