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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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3 mo on HNExpert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure
jasonofthel33t
3 HN recommender · 2014–2025
4 mo on HNAnders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction
Kasper
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
4 mo on HNSteve Jobs on Failure
Silicon Valley Historical Association
4 HN recommender · 2012–2021
3 mo on HNVitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money | Lex Fridman Podcast #80
Lex Fridman
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNStephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #234
Lex Fridman
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNQuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote
QuakeCon Official
3 HN recommender · 2011–2018
3 mo on HNChris Sacca of Lowercase Capital - TWiST #291
This Week in Startups
3 HN recommender · 2012–2017
3 mo on HN[7] Jim Keller, Silicon Wizard 🧙♂️
TechTechPotato
3 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HNTed Nelson in Herzog's "Lo and Behold"
TheTedNelson
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNDonald B. Gillies Lecture: Dr. Michael Stonebraker
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
2 HN recommender · 2018–2024
3 mo on HNSteve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy)
Stanford
2 HN recommender · 2011–2023
3 mo on HNCouldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in conversation with David Krakauer
Karol Jałochowski
3 HN recommender · 2023–2025
3 mo on HNSenate hearing on National Security Space Launch Programs with Elon Musk
canadarm2
4 HN recommender · 2014–2016
3 mo on HNIf Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk...
Steven Brant
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNAlan Kay : July 2007 : A Conversation with CMU Faculty & Students
CMU Robotics Institute
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HNthe sham legacy of Richard Feynman
Angela Collier
5 HN recommender · 2024–2025
3 mo on HNJohn Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013
IGN
3 HN recommender · 2014–2021
3 mo on HNWired Interviews Bill Gates 1996
Kevin Kelly
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNTravis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224
Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNThe "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch
Gabriel Robins
4 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HN- Startups - David H. Hansson, Partner at 37signals -TWiST #E337
This Week in Startups
3 HN recommender · 2013–2015
3 mo on HNSteve Jobs Content vs Process
Bo Manton
3 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNJohn Carmack Tech Talk with UMKC-SCE
UMKC School of Science and Engineering
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNMorris Chang, in conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang
Computer History Museum
3 HN recommender · 2012–2023
3 mo on HNCharlie Rose: Sir James Goldsmith Interview - 15.11.94
Sir James Goldsmith
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNThe Mind Behind Windows: Dave Cutler
Dave's Garage
4 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HNOculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack
Meta VR
3 HN recommender · 2016–2023
3 mo on HNRyan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation
stri8ted
3 HN recommender · 2016–2023
3 mo on HNASPLOS Keynote: The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-design by Dr. Chris Lattner
SiFive
3 HN recommender · 2021–2021
2 mo on HNBret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Colin McDonnell
2 HN recommender · 2015–2024
3 mo on HNJailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019
SXSW
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNJim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162
Lex Fridman
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNThe call to learn | Clifford Stoll
TED
3 HN recommender · 2010–2025
3 mo on HNNoam Chomsky on Propaganda - The Big Idea - Interview with Andrew Marr
k1mk1mk1m
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
3 mo on HNJohn Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309
Lex Fridman
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNComputers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology
TheTedNelson
3 HN recommender · 2013–2024