Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2026, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2026, still worth watching: these 1072 tech talks and lectures earned 3862 recommendations across the years.
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1 mo on HNWill Wright GDC 2005 Spore (The Future of Content) Remastered
Zeusmonomon
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2026
1 mo on HNVCF East: Xerox Star vs. Apple Lisa
Vintage Computer Federation
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2026
1 mo on HNLinux for Chromebooks: Secure Development (Google I/O ’19)
Chrome for Developers
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2024
1 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2008 - Dalvik Virtual Machine Internals
Google for Developers
Recommended 1× on HN · 2012–2018
1 mo on HNWhy We Run FreeBSD current at Netflix – Drew Gallatin
OpenFest Bulgaria
Recommended 1× on HN · 2024–2026
1 mo on HNThe Go Programming Language
Google TechTalks
Recommended 1× on HN · 2009–2026
1 mo on HNHuman AI is Decades Away, But We Need to Start the Debate Now | Demis Hassabis | Google Zeitgeist
Google Zeitgeist
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2016
1 mo on HNSwift for TensorFlow: The Next-Generation Machine Learning Framework (TF Dev Summit '19)
TensorFlow
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2023
1 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2012 - Meet the Go Team
Google for Developers
Recommended 2× on HN · 2012–2022
1 mo on HNDEFCON 20: Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The National Security Agency and the Constitution
Christiaan008
Recommended 1× on HN · 2012–2019
1 mo on HNKen Stanley: Discovery Without Objectives
fzambetta75
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2018
1 mo on HNOctober CincyRb - Jim Weirich on Decoupling from Rails
Launch Scout
Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2017
1 mo on HNChris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road
TED
Recommended 2× on HN · 2015–2022
1 mo on HNMultithreading the Entire Destiny Engine
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2022
1 mo on HNMartin Kleppmann | Kafka Summit SF 2018 Keynote (Is Kafka a Database?)
Confluent, an IBM Company
Recommended 1× on HN · 2018–2020
1 mo on HNScaling ZFS for NVMe - Allan Jude - EuroBSDcon 2022
EuroBSDCon
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2025
1 mo on HNThe nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube — and what's wrong with the internet today | James Bridle
TED
Recommended 1× on HN · 2018–2025
1 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “High Performance Code 201: Hybrid Data Structures"
CppCon
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2021
1 mo on HNSteve Yegge, "What Would You Do With Your Own Google?" - OSCON Data 2011
O'Reilly
Recommended 1× on HN · 2011–2016
1 mo on HNThe synthesis of imagination: Rony Abovitz and Magic Leap at TEDxSarasota
TEDx Talks
Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2026
1 mo on HNBlack Hat USA 2013 - Spy-Jacking the Booters
Black Hat
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2017
1 mo on HNSteve Jobs Introducing The iPhone At MacWorld 2007
superapple4ever
Recommended 1× on HN · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNExperiences Building Edge TPU with Chisel
Chisel
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2025
1 mo on HNInventing the Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2018
1 mo on HNBuilding the Software 2 0 Stack (Andrej Karpathy)
Databricks
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2022
1 mo on HNxkcd | Randall Munroe | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
Recommended 1× on HN · 2008–2026
1 mo on HNCoroutines and Loom behind the scenes by Roman Elizarov
Kotlin by JetBrains
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2023
1 mo on HNCondition Systems in an Exceptional Language - Chris Houser
ClojureTV
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2022