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Tech pioneers & interviews Videos Recommended on Hacker News (369)

Tech pioneers & interviews is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 369 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2007 and 2026 — 844 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Interviews and talks by tech figures: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Alan Kay, Knuth, Carmack, Wozniak, Steve Yegge, keynotes and fireside chats about careers and ideas.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Jim Simons (full length interview) - Numberphile: “the full length one is very good. it gives an understanding as to why simons has been so successful.” — an HN commenter, 2019.

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Jim Simons (full length interview) - Numberphile

Numberphile2
11 HN recommender · 2015–2024
11 mo on HN

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

JoshuaG
13 HN recommender · 2007–2015
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Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful

powerfuloutlet
10 HN recommender · 2012–2026
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Growing a Language, by Guy Steele

Bill Pugh
11 HN recommender · 2014–2026
10 mo on HN

A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
11 HN recommender · 2018–2026
10 mo on HN

"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"

Paul Stringer's Mobile Tech
10 HN recommender · 2016–2022
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VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan

Vintage Computer Federation
11 HN recommender · 2019–2025
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Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)

securitylectures
11 HN recommender · 2012–2023
8 mo on HN

Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

Google
9 HN recommender · 2007–2023
10 mo on HN

Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival

TheTedNelson
7 HN recommender · 2016–2025
9 mo on HN

Joe Rogan Experience #1035 - Paul Stamets

PowerfulJRE
10 HN recommender · 2017–2025
8 mo on HN

"Money doesn't interest me" - Ton Roosendaal 2017 Interview

Blender Guru
7 HN recommender · 2018–2025
8 mo on HN

The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

Marcel
8 HN recommender · 2013–2026
8 mo on HN

Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70

Lex Fridman
8 HN recommender · 2020–2023
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Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)

Kenneth Friedman
8 HN recommender · 2016–2023
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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Stanford
9 HN recommender · 2009–2023
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Frank Abagnale | Catch Me If You Can | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
8 HN recommender · 2018–2023
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DebConf 14: QA with Linus Torvalds

Adnan Hodzic
7 HN recommender · 2014–2021
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Keynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator

Next Day Video
7 HN recommender · 2012–2023
6 mo on HN

DOUGLAS ADAMS: Parrots, the Universe and Everything

University of California Television (UCTV)
5 HN recommender · 2014–2025
7 mo on HN

Richard Feynman Computer Science Lecture - Hardware, Software and Heuristics

Muon Ray
8 HN recommender · 2013–2026
7 mo on HN

Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity

Kenneth Friedman
6 HN recommender · 2015–2025
7 mo on HN

Peter Thiel on "The Portal", Episode #001: "An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure."

Eric Weinstein
8 HN recommender · 2019–2024
6 mo on HN

HD Feynman: FUN TO IMAGINE complete (with optional Chinese subtitles)

Christopher Sykes
4 HN recommender · 2021–2025
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Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101

Lex Fridman
6 HN recommender · 2020–2021
7 mo on HN

Joe Armstrong & Alan Kay - Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay

Erlang Solutions
6 HN recommender · 2016–2026
7 mo on HN

How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Stanford Online
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
6 mo on HN

Steve Jobs Secrets of Life

Silicon Valley Historical Association
6 HN recommender · 2012–2024
6 mo on HN

OOPSLA Conference: Growing a Language

Computer History Museum
6 HN recommender · 2020–2026
6 mo on HN

Bret Victor - The Humane Representation of Thought

Colin McDonnell
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
6 mo on HN

How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Stanford Online
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
5 mo on HN

Founder School Session: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental

DEMO
5 HN recommender · 2014–2026
5 mo on HN

Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl

InfoQ
5 HN recommender · 2011–2018
5 mo on HN

Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet

Jeff Gonis
6 HN recommender · 2013–2025
5 mo on HN

Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." - Michael Lawrence Films

Michael Lawrence
5 HN recommender · 2010–2025
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Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond

funbury
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025