Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2020, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2020, still worth watching: these 110 tech talks and lectures earned 342 recommendations across the years.
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4 mo on HNNina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule - DEF CON 27 Conference
DEFCONConference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2020–2025
3 mo on HN36C3 - BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier - english translation
media.ccc.de
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNDe-fragmenting C++: Making Exceptions and RTTI More Affordable and Usable - Herb Sutter CppCon 2019
CppCon
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2025
3 mo on HN36C3 - Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware
media.ccc.de
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNGabriella Gonzalez – How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer
Konfy
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNSteve Jobs Insult Response - Highest Quality
Jonathan Field
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNStephan T. Lavavej “Floating-Point ＜charconv＞: Making Your Code 10x Faster With C++17's Final Boss”
CppCon
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNCheerpX: a WebAssembly-based x86 virtual machine in the browser, Yuri Iozzelli
WebAssembly NA
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2025
3 mo on HN1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNIf Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk...
Steven Brant
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNDuckDB – The SQLite for Analytics (Mark Raasveldt, CWI)
CMU Database Group
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to Metal
Stanford Online
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNLambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram
Lambda World
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN35C3 - The Ghost in the Machine
media.ccc.de
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNBlueHat Seattle 2019 || Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story
Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNCRDTs: The Hard Parts
Martin Kleppmann
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2024
3 mo on HNModeling Data Concurrency w/ Asynchronous I/O in Zig - RedisConf 2020
Redis
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNJared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)
NLNOG
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNJailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019
SXSW
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN"Building a Toolkit for Design" by Matthew Griffith
elm-conf
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNClassic Game Postmortem - Another World
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 4× on HN · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNBob Nystrom - Is There More to Game Architecture than ECS?
Roguelike Celebration
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNLichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)
Lichess
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNPut Your Name on Your Game, a Talk by Bennett Foddy and Zach Gage
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 3× on HN · 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
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNSoftware Art Thou: Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering
Zendesk
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNJoe Armstrong & Jeremy Ruston - Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang | Code Mesh LDN 18
Code Sync
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2024
3 mo on HN"Compacting the Uncompactable" by Bobby Powers
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNRichard Hipp - Git: Just Say No
southeastlinuxfest
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2021
3 mo on HN"NTFS really isn't that bad" - Robert Collins (LCA 2020)
linux.conf.au
Recommended 5× on HN · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNWhat's a Memory Allocator Anyway? - Benjamin Feng
Zig SHOWTIME
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNParsing JSON Really Quickly: Lessons Learned
InfoQ
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNAlexis King - “Effects for Less” @ ZuriHac 2020
Zürich Friends of Haskell
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2020
2 mo on HNBret Victor Inventing on Principle
Luna Programming Language Tutorials
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNOCaml Workshop 2020 - State of the OCaml Platform 2020
OCamlWorkshops
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2021
2 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape
Stanford Online
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2021