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Best Tech Talks 2020, Ranked by Hacker News

First recommended on Hacker News in 2020, still worth watching: these 115 tech talks and lectures earned 508 recommendations across the years.

‹ 2019 2021 ›All tech talks

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3 mo on HN

What if Current Foundations of Mathematics are Inconsistent? | Vladimir Voevodsky

Institute for Advanced Study

Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2019

3 mo on HN

CS480/680 Lecture 19: Attention and Transformer Networks

Pascal Poupart

Recommended 3× on HN · 2023–2023

3 mo on HN

Stanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic

Stanford Online

Recommended 5× on HN · 2017–2021

3 mo on HN

MIT Godel Escher Bach Lecture 1

jasonofthel33t

Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2021

3 mo on HN

The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club)

Qualia Research Institute

Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2023

3 mo on HN

Jacob Appelbaum (Part 2/2) Digital Anti-Repression Workshop - April 26 2012

NewYorkRawVideos

Recommended 3× on HN · 2012–2017

2 mo on HN

Effective ML

Jane Street

Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2021

2 mo on HN

Stanford Seminar - Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape

Stanford Online

Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2021

2 mo on HN

Sacha Arnoud, Director of Engineering, Waymo - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Lex Fridman

Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2023

2 mo on HN

Lecture 1 | Convex Optimization I (Stanford)

Stanford

Recommended 2× on HN · 2011–2022

2 mo on HN

Computer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language design

University of Nottingham

Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2022

2 mo on HN

Jordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions

Bite-sized Philosophy

Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2021

2 mo on HN

Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example

Brian Will

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022

2 mo on HN

NeWS: A Networked and Extensible Window System, lecture by James Gosling

Computer History Museum

Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2024

2 mo on HN

1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018

MIT OpenCourseWare

Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2022

2 mo on HN

Lecture 1 | Programming Methodology (Stanford)

Stanford

Recommended 2× on HN · 2009–2026

2 mo on HN

Seminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246)

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)

Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2025

2 mo on HN

Trends in Deep Learning Hardware: Bill Dally (NVIDIA)

Paul G. Allen School

Recommended 3× on HN · 2023–2024

2 mo on HN

Jaron Lanier – Who is Civilization for? (+ Q&A with Ulrich Kelber) Willy Brandt Lecture 2018

Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung

Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2024

2 mo on HN

Geoffrey Hinton talk "What is wrong with convolutional neural nets ?"

trwappers

Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2018

2 mo on HN

Rust at speed — building a fast concurrent database

Jon Gjengset

Recommended 2× on HN · 2019–2022

2 mo on HN

Clutching at Random Straws, Matt Parker | LMS Popular Lectures 2010

London Mathematical Society

Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2024

2 mo on HN

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)

National Security Agency

Recommended 2× on HN · 2024–2026

2 mo on HN

Lecture 1 | Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition

Stanford University School of Engineering

Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2025

2 mo on HN

CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005

CS50

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2025

1 mo on HN

Computer Security 161 Cryptocurrency Lecture

Nicholas C Weaver

Recommended 1× on HN · 2022–2023

1 mo on HN

Anton: A Special-Purpose Machine That Achieves a Hundred-Fold Speedup in Biomolecular Simulations

NC State

Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2025

1 mo on HN

What is Euler's formula actually saying? | Ep. 4 Lockdown live math

3Blue1Brown

Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2023

1 mo on HN

Lecture 7A: Metacircular Evaluator, Part 1

MIT OpenCourseWare

Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2023

1 mo on HN

Lecture 1B | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986

MIT OpenCourseWare

Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2017

1 mo on HN

The Lighthill debate on Artificial Intelligence: "The general purpose robot is a mirage"

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2025

1 mo on HN

Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics - Andrej Bauer

Institute for Advanced Study

Recommended 1× on HN · 2018–2026

1 mo on HN

Where Does Bad Code Come From?

Molly Rocket

Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2023

Best Tech Talks 2020, Ranked by Hacker News

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1. Introduction, Finite Automata, Regular Expressions

Lecture 1: Introduction to Information Theory

Lec 1 | MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2010

What if Current Foundations of Mathematics are Inconsistent? | Vladimir Voevodsky

CS480/680 Lecture 19: Attention and Transformer Networks

Stanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic

MIT Godel Escher Bach Lecture 1

The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club)

Jacob Appelbaum (Part 2/2) Digital Anti-Repression Workshop - April 26 2012

Effective ML

Stanford Seminar - Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape

Sacha Arnoud, Director of Engineering, Waymo - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Lecture 1 | Convex Optimization I (Stanford)

Computer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language design

Jordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions

Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example

NeWS: A Networked and Extensible Window System, lecture by James Gosling

1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018

Lecture 1 | Programming Methodology (Stanford)

Seminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246)

Trends in Deep Learning Hardware: Bill Dally (NVIDIA)

Jaron Lanier – Who is Civilization for? (+ Q&A with Ulrich Kelber) Willy Brandt Lecture 2018

Geoffrey Hinton talk "What is wrong with convolutional neural nets ?"

Rust at speed — building a fast concurrent database

Clutching at Random Straws, Matt Parker | LMS Popular Lectures 2010

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)

Lecture 1 | Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition

CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005

Computer Security 161 Cryptocurrency Lecture

Anton: A Special-Purpose Machine That Achieves a Hundred-Fold Speedup in Biomolecular Simulations

What is Euler's formula actually saying? | Ep. 4 Lockdown live math

Lecture 7A: Metacircular Evaluator, Part 1

Lecture 1B | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986

The Lighthill debate on Artificial Intelligence: "The general purpose robot is a mirage"

Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics - Andrej Bauer

Where Does Bad Code Come From?