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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.

1 mo on HN

Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014

kungfl
1 HN recommend · 2014–2016
1 mo on HN

Seymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL)

UC Berkeley Events
1 HN recommend · 2016–2026
1 mo on HN

Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart

Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HN

Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk

PowerfulJRE
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
1 mo on HN

Grace Hopper on Letterman

TheLazlo101
1 HN recommend · 2016–2018
1 mo on HN

TypeScript is being ported to Go | interview with Anders Hejlsberg

Michigan TypeScript
2 HN recommender · 2025–2025
1 mo on HN

Steve 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 HN

A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston

Y Combinator
1 HN recommend · 2018–2020
1 mo on HN

CNN, Feynman and the Challenger disaster

vsrr83
1 HN recommend · 2016–2025
1 mo on HN

Yann 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 HN

Donald Knuth - My advice to young people (93/97)

Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People
1 HN recommend · 2015–2025
1 mo on HN

Joe Rogan Experience #2255 - Mark Zuckerberg

PowerfulJRE
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
1 mo on HN

Jim Keller - Moore's Law in the age of AI Chips

Matroid
1 HN recommend · 2020–2020
1 mo on HN

Paul Graham Keynote Speech At OPT412

pittsburghparks
1 HN recommend · 2016–2019
1 mo on HN

Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75

Lex Fridman
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN

What is it Like to Work for Elon Musk?

JRE Clips
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HN

Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series

MIT Video Productions
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HN

Linus Torvalds on his insults: respect should be earned.

TFiR
1 HN recommend · 2015–2018
1 mo on HN

Steve Jobs: Sale/Marketing People vs. Product People

Think Multiply
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HN

Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)

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

Elon Musk and Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose
1 HN recommend · 2012–2014
1 mo on HN

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

Y Combinator
1 HN recommend · 2025–2025
1 mo on HN

Jordan Hubbard - FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years

iX
1 HN recommend · 2014–2016
1 mo on HN

The First Principles Method Explained by Elon Musk

Innomind
1 HN recommend · 2014–2021
1 mo on HN

Oral History of William David "Bill" Mensch Jr.

Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2016–2021
1 mo on HN

Steve jobs on why xerox failed

Steve Jobs
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HN

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109

Lex Fridman
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

Theo de Raadt (ruBSD 2013)

fuckyoustupidzombie
1 HN recommend · 2014–2020
1 mo on HN

The mathematician who cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons

TED
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HN

Mr. Startup: Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, and his "no asshole" rule

Robert Scoble
1 HN recommend · 2010–2022
1 mo on HN

Douglas Engelbart Interviewed by John Markoff of the New York Times

Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2014–2018
1 mo on HN

The Cantrill Strikes Back | BSD Now 117

Jupiter Broadcasting
1 HN recommend · 2015–2018
1 mo on HN

S1E8: 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 HN

Grace Hopper Lecture

MIT Lincoln Laboratory
1 HN recommend · 2017–2026
1 mo on HN

The History of Unix, Rob Pike

Stephanie Borgman
1 HN recommend · 2018–2021