Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2020, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2020, still worth watching: these 158 talks and lectures earned 474 recommendations across the years.
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4 mo on HNEconomics of Nuclear Reactor
Illinois EnergyProf
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HN31 Hamming, Learning to Learn: You and Your Research, 6 June 1995
Hamming on Hamming: Learning to Learn
3 HN recommender · 2020–2024
4 mo on HNThe Road to PS5
PlayStation
6 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNDomain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin - KanDDDinsky 2019
KanDDDinsky
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HNdotJS 2019 - James Long - CRDTs for Mortals
dotconferences
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNToybox vs BusyBox - Rob Landley, hobbyist
The Linux Foundation
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HNLSTM is dead. Long Live Transformers!
Seattle Applied Deep Learning
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HN"A Political History of X" - Keith Packard (LCA 2020)
linux.conf.au
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HNRust's Journey to Async/Await
InfoQ
5 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Louis Brandy “Curiously Recurring C++ Bugs at Facebook”
CppCon
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HNTurning Photons Into Food
Apogee Instruments Inc.
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
4 mo on HNProf. Thomas Seyfried - 'Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: Implications for Novel Therapies'
Low Carb Down Under
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNNina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule - DEF CON 27 Conference
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNJames Baldwin vs William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965
Aeon Video
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN36C3 - BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier - english translation
media.ccc.de
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNDe-fragmenting C++: Making Exceptions and RTTI More Affordable and Usable - Herb Sutter CppCon 2019
CppCon
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HN36C3 - Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware
media.ccc.de
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNA Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look
Eric Weinstein
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
4 mo on HNGabriella Gonzalez – How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer
Konfy
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNTesla Battery Day
Tesla
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNSteve Jobs Insult Response - Highest Quality
Jonathan Field
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNCOVID-19 Vaccines: MODERNA | PFIZER/BIONTECH | ASTRAZENECA
Ninja Nerd
4 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNStephan T. Lavavej “Floating-Point ＜charconv＞: Making Your Code 10x Faster With C++17's Final Boss”
CppCon
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNCheerpX: a WebAssembly-based x86 virtual machine in the browser, Yuri Iozzelli
WebAssembly NA
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNWhy our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | James Flynn
TED
3 HN recommender · 2020–2024
3 mo on HN1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNRobert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Stanford Iranian Studies Program
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNIf Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk...
Steven Brant
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNDuckDB – The SQLite for Analytics (Mark Raasveldt, CWI)
CMU Database Group
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to Metal
Stanford Online
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNLambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram
Lambda World
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN35C3 - The Ghost in the Machine
media.ccc.de
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNTHIS IS WATER! by David Foster Wallace
The Actualization Agent
3 HN recommender · 2020–2024
3 mo on HNBlueHat Seattle 2019 || Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story
Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNThe Neuroanatomy of ADHD and thus how to treat ADHD - CADDAC - Dr Russel Barkley part 3ALL
Adhd Videos
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNCRDTs: The Hard Parts
Martin Kleppmann
3 HN recommender · 2020–2024