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.