Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2021, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2021, still worth watching: these 65 tech talks and lectures earned 221 recommendations across the years.
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11 mo on HNLight Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
TNMoC
Recommended 11× on HN · 2021–2026
10 mo on HN[LIVE] How to Achieve Proper Grounding - Rick Hartley - Expert Live Training (US)
Altium
Recommended 9× on HN · 2021–2025
9 mo on HNA Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry
SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
Recommended 7× on HN · 2021–2026
9 mo on HNUSENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
USENIX
Recommended 12× on HN · 2021–2026
8 mo on HN"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)
ClojureTV
Recommended 9× on HN · 2021–2026
10 mo on HNRefterm Lecture Part 1 - Philosophies of Optimization
Molly Rocket
Recommended 10× on HN · 2021–2026
8 mo on HN"Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power" - Chuck Moore (2013)
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 7× on HN · 2021–2024
6 mo on HNWhat your Differential Pairs Wish You Knew with Rick Hartley - AltiumLive Keynote
Altium
Recommended 5× on HN · 2021–2026
6 mo on HNSimple Code, High Performance
Molly Rocket
Recommended 6× on HN · 2021–2025
6 mo on HNRobocalypse Now: Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 5× on HN · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNDistributed Systems 1.1: Introduction
Martin Kleppmann
Recommended 5× on HN · 2021–2025
6 mo on HN"Outperforming Imperative with Pure Functional Languages" by Richard Feldman
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 6× on HN · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNScale By The Bay 2018: Bryan Cantrill, Rust and Other Interesting Things
FunctionalTV
Recommended 5× on HN · 2021–2024
5 mo on HNAre We There Yet - Rich Hickey
Zhang Jian
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2026
5 mo on HNLinus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks
gentooman
Recommended 5× on HN · 2021–2026
4 mo on HNHerbert Wolverson - Procedural Map Generation Techniques
Roguelike Celebration
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2022
4 mo on HNConcurrency is not Parallelism by Rob Pike
gnbitcom
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2025
4 mo on HNKeynote: Begin...End?
David Beazley
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2024
4 mo on HNDEF CON 29 - Richard Henderson - Old MacDonald Had a Barcode, E I E I CAR
DEFCONConference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNWriting a Wayland Compositor in Zig - Isaac Freund
Zig SHOWTIME
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2021
3 mo on HNKEYNOTE / Robert Erdmann
PyCon US
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNBret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations
Colin McDonnell
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2025
3 mo on HN[CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla
WAD at CVPR
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNWhat nobody tells you about documentation
PyCon AU
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNClojureScript in the Age of TypeScript — David Nolen
ChariotSolutions
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNASPLOS Keynote: The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-design by Dr. Chris Lattner
SiFive
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2021
3 mo on HN1. Introduction, Finite Automata, Regular Expressions
MIT OpenCourseWare
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2025
3 mo on HN"Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager" by Aaron Cummings
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNAnimation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNDiablo: Original Game Development
jon d
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNModern C and What We Can Learn From It - Luca Sas [ ACCU 2021 ]
ACCU Conference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNThe Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club)
Qualia Research Institute
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNVisualising software architecture with the C4 model - Simon Brown, Agile on the Beach 2019
Agile on the Beach
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2023
2 mo on HNJohn Carmack Facebook Connect 2021 Keynote
UploadVR
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNSoftware Engineering's Greatest Hits
Greg Wilson
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNPitfall: A Classic Game Postmortem
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2024