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Software practice, open source & careers is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 154 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 438 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

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Software practice, open source & careers Videos Recommended on Hacker News (154)

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8LU - Are we *really* engineers? by Hillel Wayne

AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg

Software is in Decline - Jonathan Blow

Linus Torvalds on his insults: respect should be earned.

Technical leadership and glue work - Tanya Reilly | #LeadDevNewYork

Jim Coplien and Bob Martin Debate TDD

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

Notch Coding Minicraft!

Learning from StackOverflow.com

Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit - Talk at SF Tech Poetics 01/18/18

Coding in Stenography, Quick Demo

The Story Behind Audacity

Ex Microsoft Employee tells secrets on why Windows 10 bugs exist 👨‍💻 - @Barnacules

F8 2015 - Big Code: Developer Infrastructure at Facebook's Scale

Hot Code Reloading in C

Python at Massive Scale - Stephen Simmons, Neil Slinger

SQLite: Protégé of PostgreSQL

Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time & Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019

NixOS Drama Explained, a Personal Account

Jellyvision Q&A with DHH & Jason Fried

Edsger Dijkstra interview

Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth

Steve Yegge, "What Would You Do With Your Own Google?" - OSCON Data 2011

Before Flutter | Rubber Duck Engineering | Episode #100

One Hacker Way Rational alternative of Agile - Erik Meijer

Elements of Programming Style - Brian Kernighan

Let's prototype a JavaScript JIT compiler!

Listen to Scotty

Winning at programming competitions is a negative factor for being good on the job

GrapheneOS: Documenting Numerous Attacks Against CalyxOS,, Techlore, & More

GitHub Copilot CRUSHES Leetcode Interview Questions! 😳

Matt Talks About WordPress Situation

Vibe Coding Is The Future

EDS "Airplane"

Lars Bergstrom - Beyond Safety and Speed: How Rust Fuels Team Productivity

Bob Martin SOLID Principles of Object Oriented and Agile Design

8LU - Are we really engineers? by Hillel Wayne