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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2 mo on HNRustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin
Rust Programming Language
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNRimWorld: Contrarian, Ridiculous, and Impossible Game Design Methods
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNHere's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS
Troy Hunt
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNNathaniel J. Smith - Trio: Async concurrency for mere mortals - PyCon 2018
PyCon 2018
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNDmitry Vyukov — Go scheduler: Implementing language with lightweight concurrency
Hydra
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNNeWS: A Networked and Extensible Window System, lecture by James Gosling
Computer History Museum
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNWhat Happens When Maths Goes Wrong? - with Matt Parker
The Royal Institution
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNFlorian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS
media.ccc.de
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2022
2 mo on HN36C3 - The ecosystem is moving
media.ccc.de
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNRust NYC: Jon Gjengset - Demystifying unsafe code
Rust Programming Language
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNThe Mental Game of Python - Raymond Hettinger [synced version]
Tech Ma
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNDavid Kriesel: Lies, damned lies and scans
Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) e.V.
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNRich Harris: Futuristic Web Development
Svelte Society
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNTalk: Video Games and the Future of Education
Jonathan Blow
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2023
1 mo on HN"Write a single library to handle all input devices, it'll be easy" they said...
linux.conf.au
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNLeaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide
Bryan Cantrill
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNWhat is Euler's formula actually saying? | Ep. 4 Lockdown live math
3Blue1Brown
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNLecture 7A: Metacircular Evaluator, Part 1
MIT OpenCourseWare
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNThe Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet OOPSLA 97 Keynote (VPRI 0719)
Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNA Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Marshall Kirk McKusick
EuroBSDCon
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2023
1 mo on HN8LU - Are we *really* engineers? by Hillel Wayne
8th Light Inc.
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN36C3 - A systematic evaluation of OpenBSD's mitigations
media.ccc.de
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns (DAT403-R1)
AWS Events
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNJim Keller - Moore's Law in the age of AI Chips
Matroid
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2020
1 mo on HNKeynote - Preventing, Finding, and Fixing Bugs On a Time Budget | Raymond Hettinger @ PyBay2018
SF Python
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNKirk McKusick - A Narrative History of BSD
iX
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN[FOSSi Dial-Up] Tim Ansell - Skywater PDK: Fully open source manufacturable PDK for a 130nm process
FOSSi Foundation
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNThesis: Partial State in Dataflow-Based Materialized Views
Jon Gjengset
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNElon Musk on Cameras vs LiDAR for Self Driving and Autonomous Cars
AutoPilot Review
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNTechnical leadership and glue work - Tanya Reilly | #LeadDevNewYork
LeadDev
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNCppCon 2018: Hana Dusíková “Compile Time Regular Expressions”
CppCon
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2025
1 mo on HNAlen Ladavac - Taking CI and automated testing seriously - WebCamp Zagreb 2018
WebCamp Zagreb
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNCrafting A Tiny Open World: A Short Hike Postmortem
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNA History of The ARM Microprocessor | Dave Jaggar | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNXDC 2020 - Day 1 - September 16, 2020
X.Org Foundation
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNJames Gosling - Simula: a personal journey
UiO Realfagsbiblioteket
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2026