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Python, Ruby & scripting languages Videos Recommended on Hacker News (120)
Python, Ruby & scripting languages is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 120 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 470 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Dynamic and scripting languages: Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Perl, Lua, JavaScript language internals, Java, C#, .NET, language tutorials and PyCon talks.
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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2 mo on HNClojure for Java Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
2 HN recommender · 2013–2022
2 mo on HNMilitarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes
Next Day Video
3 HN recommender · 2014–2023
2 mo on HNWhy Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022
GOTO Conferences
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNHacker Interviews: Larry Wall
The BXI
2 HN recommender · 2013–2024
2 mo on HNKeynote. Professor Steven G. Johnson | JuliaCon 2019
The Julia Programming Language
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNNathaniel J. Smith - Trio: Async concurrency for mere mortals - PyCon 2018
PyCon 2018
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNPragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?
Next Day Video
2 HN recommender · 2015–2019
2 mo on HNGuido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341
Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNYehuda Katz - Why Rails is Hard (Railsberry 2012)
applicake
2 HN recommender · 2013–2014
2 mo on HNCory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
2 HN recommender · 2016–2024
2 mo on HNRuby on Rails demo
tenthconcept
2 HN recommender · 2013–2025
2 mo on HNParallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthington
yapcasia
2 HN recommender · 2015–2016
2 mo on HNLecture 1 | Programming Methodology (Stanford)
Stanford
2 HN recommender · 2009–2026
2 mo on HNRaymond Hettinger - Dataclasses: The code generator to end all code generators - PyCon 2018
PyCon 2018
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
2 mo on HNThe Mental Game of Python - Raymond Hettinger [synced version]
Tech Ma
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNChris Seaton @ VMSS16: JRuby+Truffle: Why it’s Important to Optimise the Tricky Parts
softdevteamuk
2 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNJuliaRobotics: Making robots walk with Julia | Robin Deits
The Julia Programming Language
1 HN recommend · 2018–2021
2 mo on HN"Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022)
Strange Loop Conference
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HNPerl 6 for Mere Mortals
Curtis “Ovid” Poe
2 HN recommender · 2015–2015
2 mo on HNJonathan Diegelman - Modeling Spacecraft Separation Dynamics in Julia
The Julia Programming Language
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HNCrockford on JavaScript - Section 8: Programming Style & Your Brain
YUI Library
3 HN recommender · 2014–2015
2 mo on HNAnthony Scopatz - xonsh - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
2 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
Google for Developers
2 HN recommender · 2015–2018
2 mo on HNEpisode 1: A basic expression evaluator
Immo Landwerth (terrajobst)
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNBrandt Bucher – A JIT Compiler for CPython
encukou
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HNFriday evening lightning talks
Next Day Video
1 HN recommend · 2013–2026
1 mo on HNKeynote - Preventing, Finding, and Fixing Bugs On a Time Budget | Raymond Hettinger @ PyBay2018
SF Python
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNGoRuCo 2012 Hexagonal Rails by Matt Wynne
Confreaks
1 HN recommend · 2012–2014
1 mo on HNBringing SIMD to the Web via Dart
InfoQ
1 HN recommend · 2013–2014
1 mo on HNScalability at YouTube
Next Day Video
1 HN recommend · 2012–2024
1 mo on HNMojo Lang - Tomorrow's High Performance Python? (with Chris Lattner)
Developer Voices
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNLarry Wall Speaks at Google
Google TechTalks
1 HN recommend · 2009–2018
1 mo on HNAPL at Julia's Speed | Shashi Gowda | JuliaCon 2016
The Julia Programming Language
1 HN recommend · 2016–2019
1 mo on HNPython at Massive Scale - Stephen Simmons, Neil Slinger
PyData
1 HN recommend · 2018–2022
1 mo on HNCompiling and Optimizing Scripting Languages
Google TechTalks
1 HN recommend · 2011–2020
1 mo on HNRailsConf 2011: Aaron Patterson, "Double Dream Hands: So Intense!"
O'Reilly
1 HN recommend · 2011–2012