Categories › Computing History & Culture
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.
Features
Evergreen only
0 mo on HNJim Goetz and Jan Koum at Startup School SV 2014
Y Combinator
0 HN recommender · 2014–2025
0 mo on HNElon Musk almost crying
Timofey Pyshnov
0 HN recommender · 2016–2018
0 mo on HNSafari: iPhone Development Platform
PCWorld
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
0 mo on HNAlan Kay on Dijkstra
vermilyer
0 HN recommender · 2016–2020
0 mo on HNElon Musk on the Early Days of Tesla: Interview Part 1
Tesla Owners Silicon Valley
0 HN recommender · 2022–2022
0 mo on HNElon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #252
Lex Fridman
0 HN recommender · 2022–2022
0 mo on HNBill Burr destroyed Steve Jobs
Comic Power
0 HN recommender · 2016–2024
0 mo on HNBill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991)
Crapkai
0 HN recommender · 2020–2025
0 mo on HNJohn Backus: Function Level Programming and the FL Language 1987
Arthur Vard
0 HN recommender · 2019–2026
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs early TV appearance.mov
radi0chik
0 HN recommender · 2011–2023
0 mo on HN"Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs (WWDC'97)
Erin Casali
0 HN recommender · 2012–2026
0 mo on HNRichard Feynman playing bongos
sdfhsfh
0 HN recommender · 2010–2012
0 mo on HNThe Talk Show: Remote From WWDC 2020
Daring Fireball
0 HN recommender · 2020–2021
0 mo on HNLinus Torvalds - Nvidia F_ck You!
Jim
0 HN recommender · 2013–2022
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs on Privacy (2010)
Kenneth Friedman
0 HN recommender · 2022–2025
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs - NeXT marketing strategy video 1991
Vickin Kane
0 HN recommender · 2021–2026
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs Talks About Microsoft
TechDaily
0 HN recommender · 2020–2022
0 mo on HNSam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367
Lex Fridman
0 HN recommender · 2023–2023
0 mo on HNTalking Tech with Elon Musk!
Marques Brownlee
0 HN recommender · 2018–2022
0 mo on HNSam Altman & OpenAI | 2023 Hawking Fellow | Cambridge Union
Cambridge Union
0 HN recommender · 2023–2024
0 mo on HNApple’s Software Chief Explains ‘Misunderstood’ iPhone Child-Protection Features (Exclusive) | WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
0 HN recommender · 2021–2022
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs : Great idea doesn't always translates into great product
Investors Archive
0 HN recommender · 2022–2024
0 mo on HNVisiting SpaceX & Meeting Elon Musk [Munro Clip]
Munro Live
0 HN recommender · 2021–2021
0 mo on HNElon Musk and Y Combinator President on Thinking for the Future - FULL CONVERSATION
Vanity Fair
0 HN recommender · 2015–2024
0 mo on HNMacworld NY 1999-Noah Wyle imitating Steve Jobs
JoshuaG
0 HN recommender · 2011–2025
0 mo on HNSam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC
Connie Loizos
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs says, "Microsoft has no taste."
Elon Musk - The Martian
0 HN recommender · 2024–2026
0 mo on HNApple CEO Tim Cook: The VICE News Tonight Interview (HBO)
VICE News
0 HN recommender · 2018–2020
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs - Apple Product Matrix Strategy 1997
JackIsBack15
0 HN recommender · 2016–2026
0 mo on HNGeorge R. R. Martin Still Uses A DOS Word Processor | CONAN on TBS
Team Coco
0 HN recommender · 2014–2023
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs Quoting Alan Kay
Chunka Mui
0 HN recommender · 2017–2023
0 mo on HNCharlie Rose Eric Schmidt
Gregory Ferenstein
0 HN recommender · 2013–2025
0 mo on HNIlya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence
Dwarkesh Patel
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs on the Post PC era
smlierow
0 HN recommender · 2017–2020
0 mo on HNOral History of Bjarne Stroustrup
Computer History Museum
0 HN recommender · 2015–2023
0 mo on HNQ&A with Guido van Rossum, Inventor of Python
Microsoft Reactor
0 HN recommender · 2021–2023