Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2021, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2021, still worth watching: these 1072 tech talks and lectures earned 3862 recommendations across the years.
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1 mo on HNIntelligence is not Enough | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2023
RedMonk Tech Events
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN2016 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: D. Dunbar “A New Architecture for Building Software”
LLVM
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2020
1 mo on HN"Design in Practice" by Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
Recommended 2× on HN · 2023–2024
1 mo on HNClojure for Lisp Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2019
1 mo on HNJames Gosling - Simula: a personal journey
UiO Realfagsbiblioteket
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNPeter Munch-Ellingsen: Why I wrote my own keyboard firmware in Nim (NimConf 2021)
Nim Programming Language
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2024
1 mo on HNDouglas Crockford: Monads and Gonads (YUIConf Evening Keynote)
YUI Library
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2020
1 mo on HNVelocity 2011: Jon Jenkins, "Velocity Culture"
O'Reilly
Recommended 1× on HN · 2012–2018
1 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2018: Powering Next-Gen EC2 Instances: Deep Dive into the Nitro System (CMP303-R1)
Amazon Web Services
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2025
1 mo on HNNYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the Internet
Google TechTalks
Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2021
1 mo on HN2013 Keynote: Chandler Carruth: Optimizing the Emergent Structures of C++
CppNow
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2018
1 mo on HNDon Knuth - Constraint Based Composition
ccrmalite1
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2020
1 mo on HNdotJS 2012 - Brian Leroux - WTFJS
dotconferences
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2024
1 mo on HNIndustrial Strength High Performance RISC V Processors For Energy Efficient Computing
RISC-V International
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2018
1 mo on HNDeepSec 2010: All your baseband are belong to us by Ralf Philipp Weinmann
Sicherheitsforschung
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2014
1 mo on HNPrioritizing Technical Debt as if Time & Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019
GOTO Conferences
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2022
1 mo on HNReact.js Conf 2015 - The complementarity of React and Web Components
Meta Developers
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2015
1 mo on HNPdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves
PdF YouTube
Recommended 1× on HN · 2011–2023
1 mo on HNTesla Virtual Power Plant
InfoQ
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNAn Introduction to SQLite
Google TechTalks
Recommended 1× on HN · 2011–2018
1 mo on HNChange w/ Jim Keller
Tenstorrent
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2023
1 mo on HNCaml Trading
Yaron Minsky
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2018
1 mo on HNMaciej Ceglowski - The Website Obesity Crisis [Web Directions 2015 Keynote]
cat stevens (catb0t)
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNRendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching
Graphics Programming Conference
Recommended 1× on HN · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNDavid Patterson - A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: History, Challenges and Opportunities
UBC Computer Science
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNVelocity 2010: James Hamilton, "Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation"
O'Reilly
Recommended 1× on HN · 2010–2023
1 mo on HNCompiling and Optimizing Scripting Languages
Google TechTalks
Recommended 1× on HN · 2011–2020
1 mo on HNRailsConf 2011: Aaron Patterson, "Double Dream Hands: So Intense!"
O'Reilly
Recommended 1× on HN · 2011–2012
1 mo on HNReact without memo
React Conf
Recommended 1× on HN · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNThe Memory Sinkhole - Unleashing An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege Escalation
Black Hat
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2022
1 mo on HNseL4 Is Free – What Does This Mean For You?
Linux.conf.au 2015 -- Auckland, New Zealand
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2019
1 mo on HNAnathem | Neal Stephenson | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
Recommended 1× on HN · 2008–2024
1 mo on HN2018 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: C. Schafmeister “Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM”
LLVM
Recommended 1× on HN · 2018–2023
1 mo on HNT-Mobile’s path to IPv6 Only
Rocky Mountain IPv6 Taskforce
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2025
1 mo on HNBadUSB - On Accessories that Turn Evil by Karsten Nohl + Jakob Lell
Black Hat
Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2019
1 mo on HNThe Principles of Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob Martin
NorfolkDevelopers
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2021