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Testing, debugging & developer tools Videos Recommended on Hacker News (155)
Testing, debugging & developer tools is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 155 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2007 and 2026 — 535 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Developer tools and quality: debugging, debuggers, unit testing, TDD, fuzzing, version control, git, editors, vim, emacs, IDEs, build systems, CI, observability, refactoring.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz: “this talk captures all the important values in a single example.” — an HN commenter, 2016.
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2 mo on HNWeb Development in Emacs, Common Lisp and Clojurescript - Emacs SG
Engineers.SG
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HN7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0
Google
2 HN recommender · 2012–2023
2 mo on HNCursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447
Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HNVim universe. fzf - command line fuzzy finder
Alexey Samoshkin
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNAnthony Scopatz - xonsh - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
1 mo on HNWhere GREP Came From - Computerphile
Computerphile
1 HN recommend · 2018–2020
1 mo on HNIs TDD dead?
Thoughtworks
1 HN recommend · 2014–2022
1 mo on HNAlto System Project: Larry Tesler demonstration of Gypsy
Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HNBuilding Software at Google Scale Tech Talk
Google TechTalks
1 HN recommend · 2013–2014
1 mo on HNLive ClojureScript Game Editor
ibdknox
1 HN recommend · 2012–2016
1 mo on HNKeynote - Preventing, Finding, and Fixing Bugs On a Time Budget | Raymond Hettinger @ PyBay2018
SF Python
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN(ninth RacketCon): Andrew Blinn – Fructure: A Structured Editing Engine in Racket
Racket
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
1 mo on HNJim Coplien and Bob Martin Debate TDD
alexsmail
1 HN recommend · 2014–2017
1 mo on HNGoingNative 2012 - Day 2 - Clang
aghuttun
1 HN recommend · 2015–2022
1 mo on HNTudor Gîrba - Moldable development
Curry On!
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
1 mo on HNEx Microsoft Employee tells secrets on why Windows 10 bugs exist 👨💻 - @Barnacules
Barnacules Nerdgasm
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNVimSpeak Demo
Ashley Feniello
1 HN recommend · 2016–2026
1 mo on HNF8 2015 - Big Code: Developer Infrastructure at Facebook's Scale
Meta Developers
1 HN recommend · 2015–2016
1 mo on HNKilling the Walk Monster
Molly Rocket
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HNAlen Ladavac - Taking CI and automated testing seriously - WebCamp Zagreb 2018
WebCamp Zagreb
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
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 HNThe Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away
Google TechTalks
1 HN recommend · 2012–2024
1 mo on HNSo You Think You Know Git - FOSDEM 2024
GitButler
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HN2016 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: D. Dunbar “A New Architecture for Building Software”
LLVM
1 HN recommend · 2017–2020
1 mo on HNPrioritizing Technical Debt as if Time & Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019
GOTO Conferences
1 HN recommend · 2021–2022
1 mo on HNDebugging Lisp: fix and resume a program from any point in the stack - how Common Lisp stands out.
vindarel
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HNEmacs Rocks! Episode 13: multiple-cursors
emacsrocks
1 HN recommend · 2014–2026
1 mo on HNTwo decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
GitHub
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNIntentional Programming demo (Part 1) - Editor
dftube
1 HN recommend · 2007–2024
1 mo on HNJohn Carmack: Best programming setup and IDE | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
Lex Clips
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNNixOS VM on Mac Setup
Mitchell Hashimoto
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
1 mo on HNHow a Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio (Microsoft Build 2017)
Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Barrierefreiheit
1 HN recommend · 2024–2026
1 mo on HN800+ days of Minecraft in 8 minutes
Minecraft
1 HN recommend · 2016–2023
0 mo on HNLive Debugging in Smalltalk
jarober
0 HN recommender · 2012–2017
0 mo on HNInterview with a VIM Enthusiast
Kai Lentit
0 HN recommender · 2022–2025
0 mo on HNHitler uses git
ronopolis
0 HN recommender · 2013–2022