Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2024, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2024, still worth watching: these 18 tech talks and lectures earned 52 recommendations across the years.
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6 mo on HNCasey Muratori | Smart-Pointers, RAII, ZII? Becoming an N+2 programmer
xDahl
Recommended 6× on HN · 2024–2026
5 mo on HNLet's build the GPT Tokenizer
Andrej Karpathy
Recommended 5× on HN · 2024–2025
5 mo on HNAndrew Kelley: A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD)
ChimiChanga
Recommended 4× on HN · 2024–2026
3 mo on HNRails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson
Ruby on Rails
Recommended 6× on HN · 2024–2025
3 mo on HNDEF CON 30 - Sam Bent - Tor - Darknet Opsec By a Veteran Darknet Vendor
DEFCONConference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2024–2024
3 mo on HNSaving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024
!!Con
Recommended 4× on HN · 2024–2026
3 mo on HNDo we need Attention? - Linear RNNs and State Space Models (SSMs) for NLP
Sasha Rush
Recommended 3× on HN · 2024–2024
3 mo on HNCharlie Marsh: uv: An Extremely Fast Python Package Manager
Jane Street
Recommended 3× on HN · 2024–2025
3 mo on HNBadness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)
suckerpinch
Recommended 4× on HN · 2024–2026
3 mo on HNKeynote: What is a Component (and Why)? - Luke Wagner, Distinguished Engineer, Fastly
The Linux Foundation
Recommended 3× on HN · 2024–2026
2 mo on HN37C3 - Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers
media.ccc.de
Recommended 2× on HN · 2024–2024
2 mo on HNCapt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)
National Security Agency
Recommended 2× on HN · 2024–2026
1 mo on HNYour web app but good: Aaron Boodman (Local-First Conf)
Local-First Conf
Recommended 1× on HN · 2024–2025
1 mo on HN[#36] Zig Roadmap 2024 - Andrew Kelley
Zig SHOWTIME
Recommended 1× on HN · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNErik Jansson - GPU driven Rendering with Mesh Shaders in Alan Wake 2
Digital Dragons
Recommended 2× on HN · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNSo You Think You Know Git - FOSDEM 2024
GitButler
Recommended 1× on HN · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNRendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching
Graphics Programming Conference
Recommended 1× on HN · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNWhy We Run FreeBSD current at Netflix – Drew Gallatin
OpenFest Bulgaria
Recommended 1× on HN · 2024–2026