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Functional programming Videos Recommended on Hacker News (225)
Functional programming is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 225 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 830 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Functional programming: Haskell, OCaml, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Scala, Lisp, Scheme, immutability, monads, purity, pattern matching, Rich Hickey, Simon Peyton Jones.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich: “perhaps the most entertaining and interesting technical talk I've ever seen.” — an HN commenter, 2015.
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5 mo on HNSimon Peyton Jones: Data Parallel Haskell
nuACM
5 HN recommender · 2010–2017
4 mo on HNJohn Wiegley: Putting Lenses to Work
Bay Area Haskell
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
4 mo on HNNetflix JavaScript Talks - Async JavaScript with Reactive Extensions
Matt Marenghi
5 HN recommender · 2014–2016
4 mo on HNElm Europe 2017 - Evan Czaplicki - The life of a file
Elm Europe
4 HN recommender · 2019–2025
4 mo on HNDomain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin - KanDDDinsky 2019
KanDDDinsky
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HNJordan Walke - React to the Future
ReasonConf
4 HN recommender · 2019–2022
4 mo on HNRich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database
InfoQ
4 HN recommender · 2012–2020
4 mo on HNEdwin Brady - Idris 2 - Type-driven Development of Idris
Curry On!
4 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HNDepth-first search in APL
Dyalog
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
4 mo on HNDebugging with the Scientific Method - Stuart Halloway
ClojureTV
4 HN recommender · 2015–2023
4 mo on HNThe Functional Programmer's Toolkit - Scott Wlaschin
NDC Conferences
4 HN recommender · 2019–2021
4 mo on HNElixirConf 2018 - Keynote - Chris McCord
ElixirConf
6 HN recommender · 2018–2019
4 mo on HNStephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language
Wolfram
4 HN recommender · 2014–2015
4 mo on HNFour Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr.
Google TechTalks
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
4 mo on HNSYMBOLICS S-PACKAGES 3D GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION DEMO
Red Martian
4 HN recommender · 2014–2026
4 mo on HNThe Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation - Conal Elliott
Microsoft Research
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
4 mo on HNErlang: The Movie
uncertainyesterday
4 HN recommender · 2013–2026
4 mo on HNJohn Hughes - Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane
ClojureTV
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
4 mo on HNJoe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018
Code Sync
4 HN recommender · 2018–2022
4 mo on HNRon Pressler - Pull Push: Please stop polluting our imperative languages with pure concepts-Curry On
Curry On!
3 HN recommender · 2015–2024
4 mo on HNLiterate Programming in the Large
Next Day Video
3 HN recommender · 2014–2024
3 mo on HNOm Next - David Nolen
ClojureTV
3 HN recommender · 2015–2015
4 mo on HN"Data Driven UIs, Incrementally" by Yaron Minsky
Strange Loop Conference
4 HN recommender · 2018–2022
4 mo on HNPractical Common Lisp
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2011–2025
4 mo on HNGabriella Gonzalez – How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer
Konfy
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNEdwin Brady - Idris 2: Type-driven development of Idris | Code Mesh LDN 18
Code Sync
5 HN recommender · 2018–2024
3 mo on HNExpert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure
jasonofthel33t
3 HN recommender · 2014–2025
3 mo on HNLet's #TalkConcurrency Panel Discussion with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt
Erlang Solutions
3 HN recommender · 2019–2026
3 mo on HNEmacs From Scratch #1 - Getting Started with a Basic Usable Configuration
System Crafters
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNMonad - FunFunFunction #21
Fun Fun Function
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNClojure in a nutshell by James Trunk
Func Prog Sweden
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNLand of Lisp- The Music Video!
lisperati
2 HN recommender · 2013–2025
3 mo on HNRailsConf 2016 - Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella
Confreaks
4 HN recommender · 2016–2016
3 mo on HNJohn Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013
IGN
3 HN recommender · 2014–2021
3 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to Metal
Stanford Online
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNLambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram
Lambda World
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023