Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2021, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2021, still worth watching: these 102 talks and lectures earned 307 recommendations across the years.
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11 mo on HNLight Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
TNMoC
11 HN recommender · 2021–2026
11 mo on HNChildren Of The Magenta Line
Mossie Fly
11 HN recommender · 2021–2026
10 mo on HN[LIVE] How to Achieve Proper Grounding - Rick Hartley - Expert Live Training (US)
Altium
9 HN recommender · 2021–2025
9 mo on HNA Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry
SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
7 HN recommender · 2021–2026
9 mo on HNUSENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
USENIX
12 HN recommender · 2021–2026
8 mo on HN"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)
ClojureTV
9 HN recommender · 2021–2026
10 mo on HNRefterm Lecture Part 1 - Philosophies of Optimization
Molly Rocket
10 HN recommender · 2021–2026
8 mo on HN"Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power" - Chuck Moore (2013)
Strange Loop Conference
7 HN recommender · 2021–2024
6 mo on HNWhat your Differential Pairs Wish You Knew with Rick Hartley - AltiumLive Keynote
Altium
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
7 mo on HNMichael Levin: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | TED
TED
7 HN recommender · 2021–2026
6 mo on HNSimple Code, High Performance
Molly Rocket
6 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNThe Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Introduction
Sean Carroll
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNFasting For Survival Lecture by Dr Pradip Jamnadas
The Galen Foundation
6 HN recommender · 2021–2025
6 mo on HNRobocalypse Now: Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
GDC Festival of Gaming
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNIrving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
4 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNDistributed Systems 1.1: Introduction
Martin Kleppmann
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
6 mo on HN"Outperforming Imperative with Pure Functional Languages" by Richard Feldman
Strange Loop Conference
6 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNScale By The Bay 2018: Bryan Cantrill, Rust and Other Interesting Things
FunctionalTV
5 HN recommender · 2021–2024
5 mo on HNAre We There Yet - Rich Hickey
Zhang Jian
4 HN recommender · 2021–2026
5 mo on HNLinus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks
gentooman
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HNHerbert Wolverson - Procedural Map Generation Techniques
Roguelike Celebration
4 HN recommender · 2021–2022
4 mo on HNCarl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
carlsagandotcom
4 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HNConcurrency is not Parallelism by Rob Pike
gnbitcom
4 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HNKeynote: Begin...End?
David Beazley
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HNDEF CON 29 - Richard Henderson - Old MacDonald Had a Barcode, E I E I CAR
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNWriting a Wayland Compositor in Zig - Isaac Freund
Zig SHOWTIME
4 HN recommender · 2021–2021
3 mo on HNMyopia: A Modern Yet Reversible Disease — Todd Becker, M.S. (AHS14)
AncestryFoundation
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HNKEYNOTE / Robert Erdmann
PyCon US
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNDr. Chris Knobbe - 'Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?'
Low Carb Down Under
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNHow to recover from depression
Psychlopaedia.org
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNMichael Levin: Anatomical decision-making by cellular collectives
Thomas Ouldridge
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNHave the Boomers Pinched Their Children’s Futures? - with Lord David Willetts
The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNBret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations
Colin McDonnell
3 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HN[CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla
WAD at CVPR
4 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNJancovici : Will technology save us from Climate Change ? MIT Media Lab - 23/02/2021
Jean-Marc Jancovici
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNWhat nobody tells you about documentation
PyCon AU
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024