Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2022, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2022, still worth watching: these 40 talks and lectures earned 152 recommendations across the years.
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16 mo on HNThe spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd
Andrej Karpathy
17 HN recommender · 2022–2025
14 mo on HN"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)
Strange Loop Conference
14 HN recommender · 2022–2026
9 mo on HNThe Only Unbreakable Law
Molly Rocket
12 HN recommender · 2022–2026
8 mo on HNTiedustelueverstin arvio Venäjästä | 3.12.2018
fin_topsu
14 HN recommender · 2022–2024
8 mo on HN"Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022)
Strange Loop Conference
9 HN recommender · 2022–2025
5 mo on HNTimothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion
YaleCourses
6 HN recommender · 2022–2025
5 mo on HNPlain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022
NDC Conferences
5 HN recommender · 2022–2025
4 mo on HNI Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: Reach
GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2022–2025
5 mo on HNIntro to AI Safety, Remastered
Robert Miles AI Safety
6 HN recommender · 2022–2023
4 mo on HNMarcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal
Michael Sugrue
4 HN recommender · 2022–2025
5 mo on HN"We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman (2011)
Strange Loop Conference
5 HN recommender · 2022–2026
4 mo on HN"Performance (Really) Matters" with Emery Berger
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HN"What UNIX Cost Us" - Benno Rice (LCA 2020)
linux.conf.au
3 HN recommender · 2022–2025
3 mo on HNHow technology loses out in companies, countries & continents and what to do about it
bert hubert
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNColossus - The Greatest Secret in the History of Computing
The Centre for Computing History
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNAT&T Archives: Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign
AT&T Tech Channel
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNMilton Friedman Speaks: Money and Inflation (B1230) - Full Video
Free To Choose Network
3 HN recommender · 2022–2025
3 mo on HN1. A strange determinant
Timothy Gowers
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNHamming, "n-Dimensional Space" (April 14, 1995)
securitylectures
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNMichael Seibel - Building Product
Y Combinator
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HNTerence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder, UCLA
UCLA
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNShawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland
Foresight Institute
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HN"How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010)
Strange Loop Conference
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HNHow I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million
Joe Grand
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HNLecture by Douglas Hofstadter: Albert Einstein on Light; Light on Albert Einstein
Uppsala universitet
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNDavid Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation
TED
2 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HNPDE: A different take on editing code
TJ DeVries
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNAutomation Dependency - Part One, by Capt. VanderBurgh (restored)
flightcrewguide.com
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HN"Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022)
Strange Loop Conference
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HNBTD10: The 835kph Sailplane and Dynamic Soaring
TNG Technology Consulting GmbH
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HNWhat is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?
Physics Explained
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNHow the Krebs cycle powers life and death – with Nick Lane
The Royal Institution
2 HN recommender · 2022–2026
1 mo on HNNima Arkani-Hamed: The End of Space-Time
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNNVIDIA — Securing the Future of Safety and Security of Embedded Software (Captioned)
AdaCore
1 HN recommend · 2022–2026
1 mo on HNWhy April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit - Talk at SF Tech Poetics 01/18/18
Josh Wardle
1 HN recommend · 2022–2022
1 mo on HNTudor Gîrba - Moldable development
Curry On!
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024