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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3 mo on HNModeling Data Concurrency w/ Asynchronous I/O in Zig - RedisConf 2020
Redis
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNJared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)
NLNOG
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNIn full: Rowan Atkinson on free speech
Defend Free Speech
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNJailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019
SXSW
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN"Building a Toolkit for Design" by Matthew Griffith
elm-conf
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNClassic Game Postmortem - Another World
GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNBob Nystrom - Is There More to Game Architecture than ECS?
Roguelike Celebration
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNLichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)
Lichess
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNPut Your Name on Your Game, a Talk by Bennett Foddy and Zach Gage
GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
2 mo on HNGet Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018
GOTO Conferences
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNSoftware Art Thou: Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering
Zendesk
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNJoe Armstrong & Jeremy Ruston - Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang | Code Mesh LDN 18
Code Sync
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
3 mo on HN"Compacting the Uncompactable" by Bobby Powers
Strange Loop Conference
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNRichard Hipp - Git: Just Say No
southeastlinuxfest
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HN"NTFS really isn't that bad" - Robert Collins (LCA 2020)
linux.conf.au
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNWhat's a Memory Allocator Anyway? - Benjamin Feng
Zig SHOWTIME
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNParsing JSON Really Quickly: Lessons Learned
InfoQ
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNAlexis King - “Effects for Less” @ ZuriHac 2020
Zürich Friends of Haskell
2 HN recommender · 2020–2020
2 mo on HNModular Micro-Reactors – The Future of Nuclear Energy?
Illinois EnergyProf
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HNBret Victor Inventing on Principle
Luna Programming Language Tutorials
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNOCaml Workshop 2020 - State of the OCaml Platform 2020
OCamlWorkshops
2 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape
Stanford Online
2 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HNRustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin
Rust Programming Language
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNRimWorld: Contrarian, Ridiculous, and Impossible Game Design Methods
GDC Festival of Gaming
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNHere's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS
Troy Hunt
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNNathaniel J. Smith - Trio: Async concurrency for mere mortals - PyCon 2018
PyCon 2018
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNDavid Deutsch on Physics Without Probability
Simon Benjamin
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNSir Roger Penrose & Dr. Stuart Hameroff: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PHYSICS OF THE BRAIN
The Qualcomm Institute
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNDmitry Vyukov — Go scheduler: Implementing language with lightweight concurrency
Hydra
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNRick Roderick on Baudrillard - Fatal Strategies [full length]
The Partially Examined Life
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNNeWS: A Networked and Extensible Window System, lecture by James Gosling
Computer History Museum
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNThe next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | TED
TED
2 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HNWhat Happens When Maths Goes Wrong? - with Matt Parker
The Royal Institution
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNFlorian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS
media.ccc.de
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNDavid Sinclair | Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
2 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HN36C3 - The ecosystem is moving
media.ccc.de
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026