Best Tech Talks on YouTube, Ranked by Hacker News

Conference talks and university lectures on software, systems, AI, hardware and computing that Hacker News keeps recommending — ranked not by view count, but by how many separate months HN commenters kept vouching for them.

Best Tech Talks on YouTube, Ranked by Hacker News

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elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)

Conway's Game Of Life in APL

Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need

MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games

A Mind Is Born (256 bytes)

Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival

Computer program that learns to play classic NES games

The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate

Literate Devops with Emacs

7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyists

NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS

[EPILEPSY WARNING] How fast should an unoptimized terminal run?

BOLTR: Juicero, Cold Press Juicer for Rich Weirdos

Elevated by RGBA and TBC

VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018

Life in life

Interactive programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript

Coding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations

A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should work

Robust-first computing: Demon Horde Sort (full version)

Stevey's Tech Talk E39 -- A guided tour of Emacs

Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar

Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal

Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963

A Sudoku Solver in APL

Mock Interview with Shawn McGrath

Tomorrow Corporation Tech Demo

Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space

The Black Lotus - Eon - Amiga Demo (50 FPS)

Symbolics Lisp Machine demo Jan 2013

fr-08: .the .product by farbrausch | 64k intro (2000) (720p HQ demoscene demo)

BOLTR: DYSON HAIR DRYER. Is it WORTH the MONEY?

Twenty Minutes of Reasons to Use the RemedyBG Debugger

Emacs Rocks! Episode 17: Magit

Intrinsic Gravity by Still