Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2025, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2025, still worth watching: these 18 talks and lectures earned 53 recommendations across the years.
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8 mo on HNDeep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
Andrej Karpathy
10 HN recommender · 2025–2026
8 mo on HNCasey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
Better Software Conference
11 HN recommender · 2025–2026
6 mo on HNVeritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
6 HN recommender · 2025–2026
5 mo on HN38C3 - From Silicon to Sovereignty: How Advanced Chips are Redefining Global Dominance
media.ccc.de
5 HN recommender · 2025–2026
4 mo on HNC++ Exceptions for Smaller Firmware - Khalil Estell - CppCon 2024
CppCon
5 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNWill AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton
The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2025–2025
2 mo on HNJonathan Blow - Jai Demo and Design Explanation (KEYNOTE) - Updated
LambdaConf
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNDennis Gustafsson – Parallelizing the physics solver – BSC 2025
Better Software Conference
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNA 10x faster TypeScript
Microsoft Developer
2 HN recommender · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNAre we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
Canonical Ubuntu
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNAI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg
Daniel Stenberg
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Y Combinator
1 HN recommend · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNThe past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)
Local-First Conf
1 HN recommend · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNScott Aaronson | How Much Math Is Knowable?
Harvard CMSA
1 HN recommend · 2025–2025
0 mo on HNMicrosoft is Getting Rusty: A Review of Successes and Challenges - Mark Russinovich
Rust Nation UK
0 HN recommender · 2025–2026
0 mo on HNHow Netflix Uses Java - 2025 Edition
Java
0 HN recommender · 2025–2025
0 mo on HNChiara Mooney & Shiven Mian – Building for Microsoft (Chain React 2023)
Infinite Red
0 HN recommender · 2025–2026
0 mo on HNDoes AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study) - Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford
AI Engineer
0 HN recommender · 2025–2026