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Best Tech Talks 2017, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2017, still worth watching: these 787 tech talks and lectures earned 3136 recommendations across the years.
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5 mo on HN!!Con 2016 - How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!! By Sina Bahram
Confreaks
Recommended 2× on HN · 2019–2022
6 mo on HN"Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 6× on HN · 2015–2023
6 mo on HN28c3: The coming war on general computation
28c3
Recommended 6× on HN · 2011–2026
6 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Zoz - Don't Fuck It Up!
DEFCONConference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2021
6 mo on HNJonathan Blow: Video Games and the Human Condition
rubbermuck
Recommended 6× on HN · 2011–2017
6 mo on HNFunctional architecture - The pits of success - Mark Seemann
NDC Conferences
Recommended 5× on HN · 2018–2025
6 mo on HNHow we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes
Morphcat Games
Recommended 6× on HN · 2019–2026
6 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”
CppCon
Recommended 7× on HN · 2018–2022
6 mo on HNJake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tasks, requestAnimationFrame, ...
JSConf
Recommended 7× on HN · 2018–2023
5 mo on HNCo-dfns Live Stream: Compiler Design and Architecture
Aaron Hsu (arcfide)
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2025
5 mo on HNThe best stats you've ever seen | Hans Rosling
TED
Recommended 5× on HN · 2013–2026
6 mo on HNBryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones
PapersWeLove
Recommended 6× on HN · 2016–2025
6 mo on HNOOPSLA Conference: Growing a Language
Computer History Museum
Recommended 6× on HN · 2020–2026
6 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Deviant Ollam & Howard Payne - Elevator Hacking - From the Pit to the Penthouse
DEFCONConference
Recommended 5× on HN · 2016–2026
6 mo on HN"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 8× on HN · 2018–2021
6 mo on HN7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0
GoogleTalksArchive
Recommended 5× on HN · 2013–2023
6 mo on HNIntroduction to NoSQL • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2012
GOTO Conferences
Recommended 6× on HN · 2015–2021
7 mo on HNdotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
dotconferences
Recommended 7× on HN · 2016–2023
5 mo on HN[HOPE X] Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse
themarimbaincident
Recommended 4× on HN · 2014–2023
7 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Titus Winters “C++ as a "Live at Head" Language”
CppCon
Recommended 7× on HN · 2017–2022
5 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer
Google for Developers
Recommended 5× on HN · 2011–2024
6 mo on HNEmacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013 Presentation
Enthought
Recommended 5× on HN · 2014–2018
5 mo on HN4 2 1 Christopher Domas The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization
Adrian Crenshaw
Recommended 7× on HN · 2013–2026
6 mo on HN"Transducers" by Rich Hickey
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 6× on HN · 2014–2025
5 mo on HNDavid Kriesel: Traue keinem Scan, den du nicht selbst gefälscht hast
media.ccc.de
Recommended 4× on HN · 2019–2025
6 mo on HNContainers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018
GOTO Conferences
Recommended 6× on HN · 2018–2025
5 mo on HNI Like Notebooks
Jeremy Howard
Recommended 4× on HN · 2020–2025
6 mo on HNThe Clean Architecture in Python
Next Day Video
Recommended 5× on HN · 2017–2021
5 mo on HNBrains, Sex, and Machine Learning
Google TechTalks
Recommended 7× on HN · 2012–2017
6 mo on HNEvil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs
thoughtbot
Recommended 6× on HN · 2015–2020
6 mo on HNUser-level threads....... with threads. - Paul Turner - Google
Linux Plumbers Conference
Recommended 6× on HN · 2013–2024
5 mo on HN38C3 - From Silicon to Sovereignty: How Advanced Chips are Redefining Global Dominance
media.ccc.de
Recommended 5× on HN · 2025–2026
5 mo on HN2016 - On The Shoulders Of Giants - Damian Conway
The Perl and Raku Conference - Greenville, SC 2026
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2021
6 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Greg Law " Give me 15 minutes & I'll change your view of GDB"
CppCon
Recommended 6× on HN · 2018–2023
6 mo on HNBlueHat IL 2019 - Andrew "bunnie" Huang - Supply Chain Security: "If I were a Nation State...”
Microsoft Israel R&D Center
Recommended 6× on HN · 2019–2024
5 mo on HNDOOM: Behind the Music
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2023