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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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1 mo on HNKeynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014
kungfl
1 HN recommend · 2014–2016
1 mo on HNSeymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL)
UC Berkeley Events
1 HN recommend · 2016–2026
1 mo on HNTed Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart
Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk
PowerfulJRE
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
1 mo on HNGrace Hopper on Letterman
TheLazlo101
1 HN recommend · 2016–2018
1 mo on HNTypeScript is being ported to Go | interview with Anders Hejlsberg
Michigan TypeScript
2 HN recommender · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNSteve Jobs Microsoft has no taste
Николай Товеровский
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HN[11] Mike Clark, AMD Zen Chief Architect
TechTechPotato
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNA Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston
Y Combinator
1 HN recommend · 2018–2020
1 mo on HNCNN, Feynman and the Challenger disaster
vsrr83
1 HN recommend · 2016–2025
1 mo on HNYann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416
Lex Fridman
1 HN recommend · 2024–2024
1 mo on HNDonald Knuth - My advice to young people (93/97)
Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People
1 HN recommend · 2015–2025
1 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #2255 - Mark Zuckerberg
PowerfulJRE
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNJim Keller - Moore's Law in the age of AI Chips
Matroid
1 HN recommend · 2020–2020
1 mo on HNPaul Graham Keynote Speech At OPT412
pittsburghparks
1 HN recommend · 2016–2019
1 mo on HNMarcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75
Lex Fridman
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HNWhat is it Like to Work for Elon Musk?
JRE Clips
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNSteve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series
MIT Video Productions
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HNLinus Torvalds on his insults: respect should be earned.
TFiR
1 HN recommend · 2015–2018
1 mo on HNSteve Jobs: Sale/Marketing People vs. Product People
Think Multiply
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNMacworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)
JoshuaG
1 HN recommend · 2012–2026
1 mo on HNElon Musk and Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose
1 HN recommend · 2012–2014
1 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Y Combinator
1 HN recommend · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNJordan Hubbard - FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years
iX
1 HN recommend · 2014–2016
1 mo on HNThe First Principles Method Explained by Elon Musk
Innomind
1 HN recommend · 2014–2021
1 mo on HNOral History of William David "Bill" Mensch Jr.
Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2016–2021
1 mo on HNSteve jobs on why xerox failed
Steve Jobs
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNBrian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
Lex Fridman
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNTheo de Raadt (ruBSD 2013)
fuckyoustupidzombie
1 HN recommend · 2014–2020
1 mo on HNThe mathematician who cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons
TED
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HNMr. Startup: Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, and his "no asshole" rule
Robert Scoble
1 HN recommend · 2010–2022
1 mo on HNDouglas Engelbart Interviewed by John Markoff of the New York Times
Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2014–2018
1 mo on HNThe Cantrill Strikes Back | BSD Now 117
Jupiter Broadcasting
1 HN recommend · 2015–2018
1 mo on HNS1E8: Show And Tell: Efrit: When Steve Gives Claude Full Access To 50 Years of Emacs Capabilities
Vibe Coding With Steve and Gene
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNGrace Hopper Lecture
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
1 HN recommend · 2017–2026
1 mo on HNThe History of Unix, Rob Pike
Stephanie Borgman
1 HN recommend · 2018–2021