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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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13 mo on HNJim Simons (full length interview) - Numberphile
Numberphile2
11 HN recommender · 2015–2024
11 mo on HNSteve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
JoshuaG
13 HN recommender · 2007–2015
11 mo on HNAlan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
powerfuloutlet
10 HN recommender · 2012–2026
10 mo on HNGrowing a Language, by Guy Steele
Bill Pugh
11 HN recommender · 2014–2026
10 mo on HNA Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
11 HN recommender · 2018–2026
10 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"
Paul Stringer's Mobile Tech
10 HN recommender · 2016–2022
10 mo on HNVCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan
Vintage Computer Federation
11 HN recommender · 2019–2025
10 mo on HNHamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)
securitylectures
11 HN recommender · 2012–2023
8 mo on HNTech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
Google
9 HN recommender · 2007–2023
10 mo on HNAlan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival
TheTedNelson
7 HN recommender · 2016–2025
9 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1035 - Paul Stamets
PowerfulJRE
10 HN recommender · 2017–2025
8 mo on HN"Money doesn't interest me" - Ton Roosendaal 2017 Interview
Blender Guru
7 HN recommender · 2018–2025
8 mo on HNThe Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)
Marcel
8 HN recommender · 2013–2026
8 mo on HNJim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70
Lex Fridman
8 HN recommender · 2020–2023
8 mo on HNAlan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)
Kenneth Friedman
8 HN recommender · 2016–2023
8 mo on HNSteve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Stanford
9 HN recommender · 2009–2023
8 mo on HNJim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead
UC Berkeley EECS
7 HN recommender · 2019–2025
7 mo on HNFrank Abagnale | Catch Me If You Can | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
8 HN recommender · 2018–2023
7 mo on HNDebConf 14: QA with Linus Torvalds
Adnan Hodzic
7 HN recommender · 2014–2021
7 mo on HNKeynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator
Next Day Video
7 HN recommender · 2012–2023
6 mo on HNDOUGLAS ADAMS: Parrots, the Universe and Everything
University of California Television (UCTV)
5 HN recommender · 2014–2025
7 mo on HNRichard Feynman Computer Science Lecture - Hardware, Software and Heuristics
Muon Ray
8 HN recommender · 2013–2026
7 mo on HNAlan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity
Kenneth Friedman
6 HN recommender · 2015–2025
7 mo on HNGoogle Self-Driving Car Project | SXSW Interactive 2016
SXSW
2 HN recommender · 2016–2018
8 mo on HNStarbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 1 // Summer 2021]
Everyday Astronaut
11 HN recommender · 2021–2024
7 mo on HNQuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote
QuakeCon Official
6 HN recommender · 2012–2018
7 mo on HNPeter Thiel on "The Portal", Episode #001: "An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure."
Eric Weinstein
8 HN recommender · 2019–2024
6 mo on HNHD Feynman: FUN TO IMAGINE complete (with optional Chinese subtitles)
Christopher Sykes
4 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNJoscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101
Lex Fridman
6 HN recommender · 2020–2021
7 mo on HNJoe Armstrong & Alan Kay - Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay
Erlang Solutions
6 HN recommender · 2016–2026
7 mo on HNHow to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Stanford Online
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
6 mo on HNSteve Jobs Secrets of Life
Silicon Valley Historical Association
6 HN recommender · 2012–2024
6 mo on HNOOPSLA Conference: Growing a Language
Computer History Museum
6 HN recommender · 2020–2026
6 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1258 - Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde & Tim Pool
PowerfulJRE
6 HN recommender · 2019–2023
6 mo on HNBret Victor - The Humane Representation of Thought
Colin McDonnell
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HNGeorge Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31
Lex Fridman
7 HN recommender · 2019–2026