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Best Tech Talks 2020, Ranked by Hacker News

First recommended on Hacker News in 2020, still worth watching: these 124 tech talks and lectures earned 443 recommendations across the years.

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14 mo on HN

Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED

WIRED Investigations

Recommended 8× on HN · 2016–2022

8 mo on HN

AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System

AT&T Tech Channel

Recommended 10× on HN · 2013–2026

8 mo on HN

TempleOS | Down the Rabbit Hole

Fredrik Knudsen

Recommended 7× on HN · 2019–2022

8 mo on HN

Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit

Ahoy

Recommended 7× on HN · 2021–2026

7 mo on HN

This is Financial Advice

Folding Ideas

Recommended 9× on HN · 2023–2026

7 mo on HN

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

Veritasium

Recommended 10× on HN · 2024–2026

6 mo on HN

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

Folding Ideas

Recommended 12× on HN · 2022–2026

6 mo on HN

The Art of Making a Nixie Tube

Dalibor Farný

Recommended 6× on HN · 2017–2026

6 mo on HN

Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon

CuriousMarc

Recommended 8× on HN · 2019–2024

6 mo on HN

Moleman 2 - Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms (2012)

Vakondok (Moleman)

Recommended 6× on HN · 2015–2023

5 mo on HN

James Burke Connections, Ep. 4 "Faith in Numbers"

DRS_Education

Recommended 4× on HN · 2020–2026

6 mo on HN

Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music

Tantacrul

Recommended 6× on HN · 2023–2026

5 mo on HN

Building The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1

Clickspring

Recommended 7× on HN · 2018–2024

6 mo on HN

Over 200,000 Servers in One Place! Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)

der8auer EN

Recommended 6× on HN · 2021–2025

4 mo on HN

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

Jenny Nicholson

Recommended 4× on HN · 2024–2026

5 mo on HN

The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

BobbyBroccoli

Recommended 6× on HN · 2022–2023

5 mo on HN

Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence

znoopy2k

Recommended 5× on HN · 2011–2013

4 mo on HN

Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History

Defunctland

Recommended 7× on HN · 2021–2024

5 mo on HN

UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories

AT&T Tech Channel

Recommended 6× on HN · 2015–2024

5 mo on HN

MiniDisc - An Appreciation

Techmoan

Recommended 5× on HN · 2019–2023

4 mo on HN

7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Recommended 5× on HN · 2016–2021

5 mo on HN

GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary

Google TechTalks

Recommended 5× on HN · 2014–2026

4 mo on HN

Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS

Ahoy

Recommended 4× on HN · 2015–2017

5 mo on HN

Bitcoin - Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto

Barely Sociable

Recommended 5× on HN · 2021–2026

5 mo on HN

Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers

People Make Games

Recommended 5× on HN · 2021–2026

4 mo on HN

How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technica

Ars Technica

Recommended 5× on HN · 2020–2026

4 mo on HN

BBS The Documentary: Episode 1 of 8: BAUD (The Beginning)

Jason Scott

Recommended 4× on HN · 2019–2025

4 mo on HN

James Burke Legend Connections 1 The Trigger Effect

Tim Callinan

Recommended 4× on HN · 2022–2026

4 mo on HN

The Extreme Physics Pushing Moore’s Law to the Next Level

Seeker

Recommended 5× on HN · 2019–2023

4 mo on HN

THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments

Gamers Nexus

Recommended 4× on HN · 2025–2026

3 mo on HN

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary

Valve

Recommended 3× on HN · 2024–2025

Best Tech Talks 2020, Ranked by Hacker News

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Micro Men - 720p (2009)

Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers

Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary

The Engoodening of No Man's Sky

Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED

AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System

TempleOS | Down the Rabbit Hole

Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit

This is Financial Advice

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

The Art of Making a Nixie Tube

Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon

Moleman 2 - Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms (2012)

James Burke Connections, Ep. 4 "Faith in Numbers"

Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music

Building The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1

Over 200,000 Servers in One Place! Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence

Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History

UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories

MiniDisc - An Appreciation

7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars

GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary

Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS

Bitcoin - Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto

Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers

How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technica

BBS The Documentary: Episode 1 of 8: BAUD (The Beginning)

James Burke Legend Connections 1 The Trigger Effect

The Extreme Physics Pushing Moore’s Law to the Next Level

THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary