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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.

2 mo on HN

Web Development in Emacs, Common Lisp and Clojurescript - Emacs SG

Engineers.SG
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HN

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0

Google
2 HN recommender · 2012–2023
2 mo on HN

Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447

Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HN

Vim universe. fzf - command line fuzzy finder

Alexey Samoshkin
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HN

Anthony Scopatz - xonsh - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
1 mo on HN

Where GREP Came From - Computerphile

Computerphile
1 HN recommend · 2018–2020
1 mo on HN

Is TDD dead?

Thoughtworks
1 HN recommend · 2014–2022
1 mo on HN

Alto System Project: Larry Tesler demonstration of Gypsy

Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HN

Building Software at Google Scale Tech Talk

Google TechTalks
1 HN recommend · 2013–2014
1 mo on HN

Live ClojureScript Game Editor

ibdknox
1 HN recommend · 2012–2016
1 mo on HN

Keynote - 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 HN

Jim Coplien and Bob Martin Debate TDD

alexsmail
1 HN recommend · 2014–2017
1 mo on HN

GoingNative 2012 - Day 2 - Clang

aghuttun
1 HN recommend · 2015–2022
1 mo on HN

Tudor Gîrba - Moldable development

Curry On!
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
1 mo on HN

Ex Microsoft Employee tells secrets on why Windows 10 bugs exist 👨‍💻 - @Barnacules

Barnacules Nerdgasm
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

VimSpeak Demo

Ashley Feniello
1 HN recommend · 2016–2026
1 mo on HN

F8 2015 - Big Code: Developer Infrastructure at Facebook's Scale

Meta Developers
1 HN recommend · 2015–2016
1 mo on HN

Killing the Walk Monster

Molly Rocket
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HN

Alen Ladavac - Taking CI and automated testing seriously - WebCamp Zagreb 2018

WebCamp Zagreb
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
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

The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away

Google TechTalks
1 HN recommend · 2012–2024
1 mo on HN

So You Think You Know Git - FOSDEM 2024

GitButler
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HN

2016 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: D. Dunbar “A New Architecture for Building Software”

LLVM
1 HN recommend · 2017–2020
1 mo on HN

Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time & Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019

GOTO Conferences
1 HN recommend · 2021–2022
1 mo on HN

Debugging 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 HN

Emacs Rocks! Episode 13: multiple-cursors

emacsrocks
1 HN recommend · 2014–2026
1 mo on HN

Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds

GitHub
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HN

Intentional Programming demo (Part 1) - Editor

dftube
1 HN recommend · 2007–2024
1 mo on HN

John Carmack: Best programming setup and IDE | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips

Lex Clips
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025
1 mo on HN

NixOS VM on Mac Setup

Mitchell Hashimoto
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
1 mo on HN

How a Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio (Microsoft Build 2017)

Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Barrierefreiheit
1 HN recommend · 2024–2026
1 mo on HN

800+ days of Minecraft in 8 minutes

Minecraft
1 HN recommend · 2016–2023
0 mo on HN

Live Debugging in Smalltalk

jarober
0 HN recommender · 2012–2017
0 mo on HN

Interview with a VIM Enthusiast

Kai Lentit
0 HN recommender · 2022–2025
0 mo on HN

Hitler uses git

ronopolis
0 HN recommender · 2013–2022