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Best Tech Talks 2023, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2023, still worth watching: these 74 talks and lectures earned 184 recommendations across the years.
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8 mo on HN"The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki (Strange Loop 2023)
Strange Loop Conference
10 HN recommender · 2023–2026
7 mo on HNI Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293
SmarterEveryDay
9 HN recommender · 2023–2025
7 mo on HNMiguel de Icaza: Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake #GodotCon2023
Godot Engine
6 HN recommender · 2023–2026
6 mo on HN[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models
Andrej Karpathy
9 HN recommender · 2023–2026
6 mo on HNAll-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
All-In Podcast
5 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HNWhy can't you multiply vectors?
Freya Holmér
9 HN recommender · 2023–2025
6 mo on HNTigerStyle! (Or How To Design Safer Systems in Less Time) by Joran Dirk Greef
TigerBeetle
2 HN recommender · 2023–2025
5 mo on HNGigCityElixir23 - Bryan Hunter
Groxio
4 HN recommender · 2023–2025
4 mo on HNThe Web That Never Was - Dylan Beattie
NDC Conferences
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
4 mo on HNSparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4
Sebastien Bubeck
7 HN recommender · 2023–2026
4 mo on HNThe A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023
Center for Humane Technology
11 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HN"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega
Strange Loop Conference
4 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNWho is Yahweh - How a Warrior-Storm God became the God of the Israelites and World Monotheism
ESOTERICA
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNDan Abramov The wet codebase
eswarnichtsmehrfrei
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNUnderstanding the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid
WeberAuto
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HNState of GPT | BRK216HFS
Microsoft Developer
6 HN recommender · 2023–2025
3 mo on HNElixirConf 2023 - José Valim - The foundations of the Elixir type system
ElixirConf
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HNDEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNHow did consciousness evolve? - with Nicholas Humphrey
The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HN50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
University of Utah
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNCS480/680 Lecture 19: Attention and Transformer Networks
Pascal Poupart
3 HN recommender · 2023–2023
3 mo on HN"Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB" by Konrad Malawski (Strange Loop 2023)
Strange Loop Conference
3 HN recommender · 2023–2025
3 mo on HNIntroducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases - John McCall - CppNow 2023
CppNow
3 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNNetdev 0x16 - Keynote: It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter
netdevconf
2 HN recommender · 2023–2023
2 mo on HNAndy Bell – Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager
Hey! Presents
2 HN recommender · 2023–2023
2 mo on HNLawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness)
DeviantOllam
2 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNMatter to Mind:Bioelectricity, Body Intelligence, Future of Regenerative Medicine- Dr. Michael Levin
Harvard Extension Student Psychological Club
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNPeter Singer - ordinary people are evil
Jeffrey Kaplan
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HN2023 LLVM Dev Mtg - Mojo 🔥: A system programming language for heterogenous computing
LLVM
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HNWhy Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022
GOTO Conferences
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNHow to Get Your First Customers | Startup School
Y Combinator
2 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNMakepad: Designing modern UIs with Rust - Rik Arends - RustNL 2023
RustNL
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNHC2023-K2: Hardware for Deep Learning
hotchipsvideos
2 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNMunk Debate on Artificial Intelligence | Bengio & Tegmark vs. Mitchell & LeCun
Policy-Relevant Science & Technology
2 HN recommender · 2023–2023
2 mo on HNThe Truth about Rust/WebAssembly Performance
Greg Johnston
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HNBlueHat IL 2023 - David Weston - Default Security
Microsoft Israel R&D Center
3 HN recommender · 2023–2025