Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2025, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2025, still worth watching: these 14 tech talks and lectures earned 53 recommendations across the years.
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8 mo on HNDeep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
Andrej Karpathy
Recommended 10× on HN · 2025–2026
8 mo on HNCasey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
Better Software Conference
Recommended 11× on HN · 2025–2026
6 mo on HNVeritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Recommended 6× on HN · 2025–2026
5 mo on HN38C3 - From Silicon to Sovereignty: How Advanced Chips are Redefining Global Dominance
media.ccc.de
Recommended 5× on HN · 2025–2026
4 mo on HNC++ Exceptions for Smaller Firmware - Khalil Estell - CppCon 2024
CppCon
Recommended 5× on HN · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNWill AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton
The Royal Institution
Recommended 3× on HN · 2025–2025
2 mo on HNJonathan Blow - Jai Demo and Design Explanation (KEYNOTE) - Updated
LambdaConf
Recommended 2× on HN · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNDennis Gustafsson – Parallelizing the physics solver – BSC 2025
Better Software Conference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNA 10x faster TypeScript
Microsoft Developer
Recommended 2× on HN · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNAre we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
Canonical Ubuntu
Recommended 3× on HN · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNAI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg
Daniel Stenberg
Recommended 1× on HN · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Y Combinator
Recommended 1× on HN · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNThe past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)
Local-First Conf
Recommended 1× on HN · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNScott Aaronson | How Much Math Is Knowable?
Harvard CMSA
Recommended 1× on HN · 2025–2025