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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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0 mo on HNBillionaire Bill Gates Guesses Grocery Store Prices
TheEllenShow
0 HN recommender · 2019–2024
0 mo on HNGerald Jay Sussman: The Role of Programming (Dan Friedman's 60th Birthday)
William Byrd
0 HN recommender · 2022–2024
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs - Apple Is Software
Mike Cane
0 HN recommender · 2016–2025
0 mo on HNAn Earthshaking Announcement
River Valley Technologies
0 HN recommender · 2020–2023
0 mo on HNYoung Elon Musk featured in documentary about millionaires (1999)
Elon Musk best videos
0 HN recommender · 2017–2020
0 mo on HNStrictlyVC in conversation with Sam Altman, part two (OpenAI)
Connie Loizos
0 HN recommender · 2023–2023
0 mo on HNI Think I Know Who Satoshi Is
TheTedNelson
0 HN recommender · 2013–2015
0 mo on HNBallmer Laughs at iPhone
smugmacgeek
0 HN recommender · 2012–2024
0 mo on HNJack Ma and Elon Musk hold debate in Shanghai
New China TV
0 HN recommender · 2019–2026
0 mo on HNAnthony Levandowski on lessons learned at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI
TechCrunch
0 HN recommender · 2019–2021
0 mo on HNBill Gates Explains the Internet to Dave (1995) | Letterman
Letterman
0 HN recommender · 2022–2025
0 mo on HNApple WWDC 2005-The Intel Switch Revealed
JoshuaG
0 HN recommender · 2015–2021
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs Presents to the Cupertino City Council (6/7/11)
City of Cupertino
0 HN recommender · 2011–2020
0 mo on HNreddit.com Interviews Peter Norvig
Reddit
0 HN recommender · 2010–2012
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs in 2010, at D8 Conference (Full Video)
Video Insider
0 HN recommender · 2018–2025
0 mo on HNLinus Torvalds: Nvidia, Fuck You!
SiliconNews
0 HN recommender · 2012–2026
0 mo on HNThe Secrets of Monkey Island - An Evening With Ron Gilbert
The Video Game History Foundation
0 HN recommender · 2020–2023
0 mo on HNSam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419
Lex Fridman
0 HN recommender · 2024–2026
0 mo on HNBarack Obama - Computer Science Question
weedipikia
0 HN recommender · 2013–2019
0 mo on HNSteve Balmer on KLOCs
Ali Gajani
0 HN recommender · 2016–2026
0 mo on HNE3 12: John Carmack's VR Presentation
Gamereactor
0 HN recommender · 2013–2017
0 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”
Dwarkesh Patel
0 HN recommender · 2025–2026
0 mo on HNWhy We Should Stop Using JavaScript According to Douglas Crockford (Inventor of JSON)
CultRepo
0 HN recommender · 2023–2024
0 mo on HNOral History of Steve Naroff Part 1, Session 1
Computer History Museum
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
0 mo on HNBILL GATES on 'the internet' in 1995 | David LETTERMAN
Studio HilbArt
0 HN recommender · 2017–2021
0 mo on HNWhere's Google going next? | Larry Page
TED
0 HN recommender · 2014–2024
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs talks about what he saw and he missed at Xerox PARC
Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
0 HN recommender · 2020–2022
0 mo on HNThe Mind Behind Linux | Linus Torvalds | TED
TED
0 HN recommender · 2016–2026
0 mo on HNI Interviewed The Creator Of LLVM, Clang, Swift, and Mojo
The PrimeTime
0 HN recommender · 2024–2026
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs' original vision for iOS web apps, WWDC 2007
Bruce Lawson
0 HN recommender · 2022–2026
0 mo on HNSteve Ballmer Laughs At The iPhone
Sander Duivestein
0 HN recommender · 2018–2023
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs The Lost Interview
Steve Jobs
0 HN recommender · 2021–2026
0 mo on HNAlan Kay on Linux
Jack
0 HN recommender · 2018–2026
0 mo on HNMurray Gell-Mann talks about Richard Feynman
Muon Ray
0 HN recommender · 2013–2022
0 mo on HNPeter Thiel on being a contrarian
This Week in Startups
0 HN recommender · 2015–2018
0 mo on HNTim Cook, Sir Jony Ive KBE, and Laurene Powell Jobs | Full Interview | Code 2022
On with Kara Swisher
0 HN recommender · 2022–2025