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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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16 mo on HNHow to Speak
MIT OpenCourseWare
17 HN recommender · 2020–2025
11 mo on HNDesigning the Ideal Bootstrapped Business with Jason Cohen
Rob Walling
13 HN recommender · 2020–2024
12 mo on HNPreventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)
DevGAMM
14 HN recommender · 2020–2025
10 mo on HNSiggraph2019 Geometric Algebra
Bivector
8 HN recommender · 2020–2022
8 mo on HNLecture 6: Version Control (git) (2020)
Missing Semester
9 HN recommender · 2020–2023
7 mo on HN"Unison: a new distributed programming language" by Paul Chiusano
Strange Loop Conference
7 HN recommender · 2020–2023
7 mo on HNExploring the Tech and Design of Noita
GDC Festival of Gaming
7 HN recommender · 2020–2026
6 mo on HNThe Art of Code - Dylan Beattie
NDC Conferences
6 HN recommender · 2020–2024
7 mo on HNClean Code - Uncle Bob / Lesson 1
UnityCoin
6 HN recommender · 2020–2026
6 mo on HN01 - Course Introduction & Relational Model (CMU Databases Systems / Fall 2019)
CMU Database Group
6 HN recommender · 2020–2023
6 mo on HN"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea
Strange Loop Conference
5 HN recommender · 2020–2023
6 mo on HNLEADERSHIP LAB: Writing Beyond the Academy 1.23.15
UChicago Social Sciences
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
6 mo on HNJames Powell: So you want to be a Python expert? | PyData Seattle 2017
PyData
6 HN recommender · 2020–2026
6 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy - AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla
Matroid
4 HN recommender · 2020–2022
7 mo on HNCppCon 2019: Chandler Carruth “There Are No Zero-cost Abstractions”
CppCon
7 HN recommender · 2020–2026
6 mo on HNVladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
Yale University
10 HN recommender · 2020–2023
5 mo on HNC++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter - atomic Weapons 1 of 2
alexsmail
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
6 mo on HNOOPSLA Conference: Growing a Language
Computer History Museum
6 HN recommender · 2020–2026
5 mo on HNI Like Notebooks
Jeremy Howard
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNGreat Earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest
Central Washington University
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNRich Hickey rants about HttpServletRequest in 1080p: Death By Specificity from Clojure Made Simple
Fred Overflow
5 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HNInteractive notebooks ~ Pluto.jl | Fons van der Plas | JuliaCon 2020
The Julia Programming Language
6 HN recommender · 2020–2021
5 mo on HNCracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel
The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2020–2024
6 mo on HNLecture 1: Introduction
MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
6 mo on HNStanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer
Stanford Online
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNEPC2018 | Wave Function Collapse in Bad North | Oskar Stalberg
BUas Games
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
5 mo on HNAdmiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond
funbury
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HNControl Bootcamp: Overview
Steve Brunton
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNWho Destroyed Three Mile Island? - Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer Austin 2018
LeadDev
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
5 mo on HNOn the Expressive Power of Programming Languages by Shriram Krishnamurthi [PWLConf 2019]
PapersWeLove
5 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HNA Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean Carroll
The Royal Institution
5 HN recommender · 2020–2022
5 mo on HN8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2
GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNElectron transport chain
Harvard Online
6 HN recommender · 2020–2024
4 mo on HNJohn Wiegley: Putting Lenses to Work
Bay Area Haskell
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
4 mo on HNiPhone 1 - Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote in 2007 - Full Presentation, 80 mins
Protectstar Inc.
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HNGreat Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming
Tom Wildenhain
4 HN recommender · 2020–2026