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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 HNJoe Rogan Experience #1236 - Jack Dorsey
PowerfulJRE
1 HN recommend · 2019–2019
1 mo on HNSteve Jobs on Virtual Reality (D3, 2005)
Milan Lajtoš
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
1 mo on HNIntelligence is not Enough | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2023
RedMonk Tech Events
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HNBill Atkinson: Hypercard
TWiT Tech Podcast Network
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNMoore's Law is Not Dead (Jim Keller) | AI Podcast Clips
Lex Fridman
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HNComputers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC
TheTedNelson
1 HN recommend · 2014–2023
1 mo on HNClojure for Lisp Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
1 HN recommend · 2017–2019
1 mo on HNElon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18
Lex Fridman
1 HN recommend · 2019–2025
1 mo on HNDon Knuth - Constraint Based Composition
ccrmalite1
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HNChange w/ Jim Keller
Tenstorrent
1 HN recommend · 2023–2023
1 mo on HNNo Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla
No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNLadyada interview with Paul Horowitz - The Art of Electronics @adafruit @electronicsbook
Adafruit Industries
1 HN recommend · 2015–2019
1 mo on HNPeter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not To Name Your Company | Conversations with Tyler
Mercatus Center
1 HN recommend · 2017–2021
1 mo on HNAnathem | Neal Stephenson | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2008–2024
1 mo on HNEdsger Dijkstra interview
Hans Otten
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HNChris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131
Lex Fridman
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HNLamport on writing "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"
Turing Awardee Clips
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HNRichard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295
Lex Fridman
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNHandmadeCon 2015 - Mike Acton
Molly Rocket
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HNHuman AI is Decades Away, But We Need to Start the Debate Now | Demis Hassabis | Google Zeitgeist
Google Zeitgeist
1 HN recommend · 2015–2016
1 mo on HNNeXTSTEP Release 3: A Demonstration with Steve Jobs
Joseph Spiros
1 HN recommend · 2022–2026
1 mo on HNTwo decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
GitHub
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNJohn Carmack: Best programming setup and IDE | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
Lex Clips
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNJeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
Dwarkesh Patel
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNSteve Yegge, "What Would You Do With Your Own Google?" - OSCON Data 2011
O'Reilly
1 HN recommend · 2011–2016
1 mo on HNA.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Interesting Times
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNSteve Jobs Introducing The iPhone At MacWorld 2007
superapple4ever
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNInventing the Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2014–2018
1 mo on HNBuilding the Software 2 0 Stack (Andrej Karpathy)
Databricks
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022
1 mo on HNxkcd | Randall Munroe | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2008–2026
0 mo on HNInterview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails and more
Google for Developers
0 HN recommender · 2008–2011
0 mo on HNJohn Carmack Keynote QuakeCon 2010 Part 1
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0 HN recommender · 2011–2011
0 mo on HNELON MUSK, JAY LENO AND THE 2021 CYBERTRUCK (FULL SEGMENT) | Jay Leno's Garage
CNBC Ambition
0 HN recommender · 2022–2023
0 mo on HNTerry Davis Demos SimStructure (2016-08-25)
TheChristIsKing
0 HN recommender · 2018–2022
0 mo on HNUSA's Leading Dissident Voice | Noam Chomsky | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
0 HN recommender · 2017–2018
0 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #2223 - Elon Musk
PowerfulJRE
0 HN recommender · 2024–2025