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Best Tech Talks 2018, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2018, still worth watching: these 195 talks and lectures earned 697 recommendations across the years.
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17 mo on HN8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
GDC Festival of Gaming
13 HN recommender · 2018–2026
12 mo on HNReverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!
suckerpinch
12 HN recommender · 2018–2025
13 mo on HNQuantum Computing for Computer Scientists
Microsoft Research
12 HN recommender · 2018–2025
11 mo on HNWhat Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018
The Artificial Intelligence Channel
12 HN recommender · 2018–2024
11 mo on HN🚀 TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong (Ian Cooper)
DevTernity Conference
11 HN recommender · 2018–2024
11 mo on HNMaybe Not - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
14 HN recommender · 2018–2025
11 mo on HNDebugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017
GOTO Conferences
8 HN recommender · 2018–2025
10 mo on HNWinners Take All | Anand Giridharadas | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
9 HN recommender · 2018–2026
9 mo on HNChristopher Hitchens - Free Speech
hitch archive
9 HN recommender · 2018–2022
11 mo on HNADHD: Essential Ideas for Parents - Dr. Russell Barkely
ADHDtips
11 HN recommender · 2018–2025
10 mo on HNUSENIX Security '18-Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
USENIX
10 HN recommender · 2018–2026
10 mo on HNA Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
11 HN recommender · 2018–2026
11 mo on HNThe Thirty Million Line Problem
Molly Rocket
11 HN recommender · 2018–2024
10 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Matt Kulukundis “Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-friendly Hash Table, Step by Step”
CppCon
9 HN recommender · 2018–2026
9 mo on HNRustConf 2018 - Closing Keynote - Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine West
Rust Programming Language
9 HN recommender · 2018–2023
8 mo on HNFailing to Fail: The Spiderweb Software Way
GDC Festival of Gaming
11 HN recommender · 2018–2025
7 mo on HN34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
media.ccc.de
9 HN recommender · 2018–2025
7 mo on HNCompiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper
suckerpinch
8 HN recommender · 2018–2023
7 mo on HNFrank Abagnale | Catch Me If You Can | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
8 HN recommender · 2018–2023
8 mo on HNBlockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens)
HBS Digital Initiative
8 HN recommender · 2018–2023
7 mo on HNPrinciples of Technology Leadership | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2017
RedMonk Tech Events
9 HN recommender · 2018–2025
7 mo on HNZig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity – Andrew Kelley
Recurse Center
6 HN recommender · 2018–2024
7 mo on HNDomain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin
NDC Conferences
6 HN recommender · 2018–2024
7 mo on HN'Diablo': A Classic Game Postmortem
GDC Festival of Gaming
8 HN recommender · 2018–2023
7 mo on HNIra Glass on Storytelling 3
warphotography
7 HN recommender · 2018–2026
6 mo on HNDEF CON 26 - Svea, Suggy, Till - Inside the Fake Science Factory
DEFCONConference
5 HN recommender · 2018–2025
7 mo on HNGwynne Dyer -- Geopolitics in a Hotter World
The University of British Columbia
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
6 mo on HNNina Teicholz - 'Vegetable Oils: The Unknown Story'
Low Carb Down Under
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
6 mo on HNThe Physics and Philosophy of Time - with Carlo Rovelli
The Royal Institution
5 HN recommender · 2018–2022
6 mo on HNI don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
O'Reilly
6 HN recommender · 2018–2025
6 mo on HNFunctional architecture - The pits of success - Mark Seemann
NDC Conferences
5 HN recommender · 2018–2025
6 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”
CppCon
7 HN recommender · 2018–2022
6 mo on HNJake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tasks, requestAnimationFrame, ...
JSConf
7 HN recommender · 2018–2023
5 mo on HNCo-dfns Live Stream: Compiler Design and Architecture
Aaron Hsu (arcfide)
3 HN recommender · 2018–2025
7 mo on HNHow to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Stanford Online
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
6 mo on HN"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki
Strange Loop Conference
8 HN recommender · 2018–2021