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Best Tech Talks 2021, Ranked by Hacker News

First recommended on Hacker News in 2021, still worth watching: these 130 tech talks and lectures earned 353 recommendations across the years.

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3 mo on HN

Reballing flip chip GPUs is BULLSHIT - the truth about dead laptop GPUs & repairing them.

Louis Rossmann

Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2019

2 mo on HN

DEBUNKING STARLINK

Common Sense Skeptic

Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2022

2 mo on HN

We need to talk about failing keyboards on these new Macbooks.

Louis Rossmann

Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2019

2 mo on HN

Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight

Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2017

2 mo on HN

Naive empiricism, terrorism & Ebola.

N N Taleb's Probability Questions

Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2021

2 mo on HN

The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures.

Louis Rossmann

Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2023

2 mo on HN

Amazon Sells Fake Electrical Fuses

Louis Rossmann

Recommended 2× on HN · 2024–2026

2 mo on HN

[Highlight] StarCraft Remastered Rant

Day9TV

Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2019

2 mo on HN

Game Theory: How PewDiePie Conquered YouTube

The Game Theorists

Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2017

2 mo on HN

Handmade Hero | Getting rid of the OOP mindset

vexe

Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2023

2 mo on HN

The Really Dark Truth About Bots

Benn Jordan

Recommended 3× on HN · 2024–2025

2 mo on HN

Update on my Brain Injury & the Future of Strange Parts

Strange Parts

Recommended 4× on HN · 2023–2024

2 mo on HN

Weird Kids' Videos and Gaming the Algorithm

Folding Ideas

Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2023

2 mo on HN

$30,000,000 AI Is Hiding a Scam

Coffeezilla

Recommended 3× on HN · 2024–2024

Best Tech Talks 2021, Ranked by Hacker News

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Apple's Independent Repair Program is a useless PR stunt.

Rant: Entity systems and the Rust borrow checker ... or something.

Sequelitis - Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X

Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda

Twitter and Visual Studio Rant

Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology

Should Knowledge Be Free?

I tried using AI. It scared me.

Windows "SUCKS": How I'd Fix it by a retired Microsoft Windows engineer

Intel - Anti-Competitive, Anti-Consumer, Anti-Technology.

Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World

Gacha Drama and the Korean Gender War

The Addictive Cost Of Predatory Videogame Monetization (The Jimquisition)

Why Doing Taxes Is So Hard | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix

GitHub Actions Feels Bad

Sonification & The Problem with Making Music from Data

Why 90% of Managers Are GARBAGE (The Professional Lie) | Steve Jobs

Why I don't use Apple products

Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam

The Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops

Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer

Humans can't read URLs. How can we fix it? - HTTP 203

Reballing flip chip GPUs is BULLSHIT - the truth about dead laptop GPUs & repairing them.

DEBUNKING STARLINK

We need to talk about failing keyboards on these new Macbooks.

Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Naive empiricism, terrorism & Ebola.

The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures.

Amazon Sells Fake Electrical Fuses

[Highlight] StarCraft Remastered Rant

Game Theory: How PewDiePie Conquered YouTube

Handmade Hero | Getting rid of the OOP mindset

The Really Dark Truth About Bots

Update on my Brain Injury & the Future of Strange Parts

Weird Kids' Videos and Gaming the Algorithm

$30,000,000 AI Is Hiding a Scam