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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.

2 mo on HN

Commodore 64—25th Anniversary Celebration

Computer History Museum
2 HN recommender · 2012–2016
2 mo on HN

E3 2012: John Carmack Interview

Giant Bomb
1 HN recommend · 2012–2023
2 mo on HN

Seminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246)

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HN

Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 2 // Summer 2021]

Everyday Astronaut
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HN

Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret"

Sidewinder77
2 HN recommender · 2012–2016
2 mo on HN

The Man behind Stable Diffusion

Yannic Kilcher
3 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HN

We Play Doom With John Romero

IGN
2 HN recommender · 2016–2018
2 mo on HN

Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace : 1958 (Full)

someoddstuff
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HN

A conversation with Elon Musk about Starship

Everyday Astronaut
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HN

Oral History of Chuck Peddle

Computer History Museum
2 HN recommender · 2019–2024
2 mo on HN

Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447

Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HN

A Conversation with Stewart Brand (Devcon4)

Ethereum Foundation
2 HN recommender · 2021–2021
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Joe Rogan Experience #965 - Robert Sapolsky

PowerfulJRE
2 HN recommender · 2017–2020
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Joel Spolsky at Startup School 2012

Y Combinator
2 HN recommender · 2014–2016
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Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun

Alex Kantrowitz
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
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Jeff Bezos 1997 Interview

Chuck Severance
3 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HN

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)

National Security Agency
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HN

Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker

The LBJ School
2 HN recommender · 2013–2017
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Conan O'Brien | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
2 HN recommender · 2010–2026
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Steve Jobs on Microsoft

JoshuaG
2 HN recommender · 2009–2022
2 mo on HN

CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005

CS50
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
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Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21

Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
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The Lighthill Debate (1973) - part 1 of 6

bilkable
2 HN recommender · 2016–2021
2 mo on HN

Micro Men - 10th Anniversary - With Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser

The Centre for Computing History
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN

Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation on 1980 (Insanely Great)

naji1234
1 HN recommend · 2012–2026
1 mo on HN

The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh

macessentials
1 HN recommend · 2011–2021
1 mo on HN

Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business

budagum
1 HN recommend · 2011–2026
1 mo on HN

Foundation 07 // Chris Sacca

Kevin Rose
1 HN recommend · 2012–2013
1 mo on HN

Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer, 1979

TheTedNelson
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HN

Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371

Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2023–2023
1 mo on HN

steve jobs on why xerox failed

Kumar Saurav
1 HN recommend · 2024–2024
1 mo on HN

The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet OOPSLA 97 Keynote (VPRI 0719)

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HN

Oral History of John Backus

Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2019–2026
1 mo on HN

Feynman_i_dont_like_honors_ [longer_version]

batxg3
1 HN recommend · 2009–2024
1 mo on HN

Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction

JoshuaG
1 HN recommend · 2010–2022
1 mo on HN

Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds

Linus Tech Tips
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026