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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.

6 mo on HN

GDC 2018: John McDonald (Valve) - Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in CSGO

max4warn

5 HN recommender · 2018–2026

4 mo on HN

34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!

media.ccc.de

4 HN recommender · 2018–2024

4 mo on HN

If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? - with Daniel Dennett

The Royal Institution

3 HN recommender · 2018–2024

4 mo on HN

ElixirConf 2018 - Keynote - Chris McCord

ElixirConf

6 HN recommender · 2018–2019

4 mo on HN

The Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation - Conal Elliott

Microsoft Research

3 HN recommender · 2018–2023

4 mo on HN

Practical Creativity

GDC Festival of Gaming

3 HN recommender · 2018–2026

4 mo on HN

Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018

Code Sync

4 HN recommender · 2018–2022

Best Tech Talks 2018, Ranked by Hacker News

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Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018

CppCon 2015: Greg Law " Give me 15 minutes & I'll change your view of GDB"

Taking Vector Transposes Seriously | Jiahao Chen | JuliaCon 2017

Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017

ElixirConf 2018 - Docker and OTP Friends or Foes - Daniel Azuma

Dconf 2014 Day 2 Keynote: The Last Thing D Needs -- Scott Meyers

Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies. | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville

6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Paul Stamets | TED

Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online

I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers

Complete Apple WWDC | Steve Jobs talk and answer developers questions | 1997

"You Have the Right to Remain Innocent" (James Duane)

The Unanswered Question 1973 1 Musical Phonology Bernstein Norton

Raymond Hettinger, Keynote on Concurrency, PyBay 2017

The real story behind Wayland and X

Stuart Halloway - Narcissistic Design

Introduction: The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday (1/6)

Why I changed my mind about nuclear power | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxBerlin

Real Analysis, Lecture 1: Constructing the Rational Numbers

Design Patterns vs Anti pattern in APL by Aaron W Hsu at FnConf17

How one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson

Nuclear 101: How Nuclear Bombs Work Part 1/2

Pop an ollie and innovate! | Rodney Mullen | TED

Old Is the New New • Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2018

CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency

"Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming tools" by Max Brunsfeld

Mike Mullane - Normalisation of deviance - IAFF - Part 1

10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU

Why Air Quality Matters

GDC 2018: John McDonald (Valve) - Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in CSGO

34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!

If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? - with Daniel Dennett

ElixirConf 2018 - Keynote - Chris McCord

The Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation - Conal Elliott

Practical Creativity

Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018