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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.

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14 mo on HN

Micro Men - 720p (2009)

gimpymoo
15 HN recommender · 2015–2026
12 mo on HN

Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers

Excelsior10000
13 HN recommender · 2014–2025
12 mo on HN

Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

The Documentary Network
13 HN recommender · 2015–2026
10 mo on HN

AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary

Google DeepMind
10 HN recommender · 2020–2025
8 mo on HN

AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System

AT&T Tech Channel
10 HN recommender · 2013–2026
8 mo on HN

TempleOS | Down the Rabbit Hole

Fredrik Knudsen
7 HN recommender · 2019–2022
8 mo on HN

Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit

Ahoy
7 HN recommender · 2021–2026
7 mo on HN

This is Financial Advice

Folding Ideas
9 HN recommender · 2023–2026
7 mo on HN

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

Veritasium
10 HN recommender · 2024–2026
6 mo on HN

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

Folding Ideas
12 HN recommender · 2022–2026
6 mo on HN

The Art of Making a Nixie Tube

Dalibor Farný
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
6 mo on HN

Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon

CuriousMarc
8 HN recommender · 2019–2024
6 mo on HN

Moleman 2 - Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms (2012)

Vakondok (Moleman)
6 HN recommender · 2015–2023
5 mo on HN

James Burke Connections, Ep. 4 "Faith in Numbers"

DRS_Education
4 HN recommender · 2020–2026
6 mo on HN

Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music

Tantacrul
6 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HN

Building The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1

Clickspring
7 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HN

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

Jenny Nicholson
4 HN recommender · 2024–2026
5 mo on HN

The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

BobbyBroccoli
6 HN recommender · 2022–2023
5 mo on HN

Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence

znoopy2k
5 HN recommender · 2011–2013
4 mo on HN

Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History

Defunctland
7 HN recommender · 2021–2024
5 mo on HN

UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories

AT&T Tech Channel
6 HN recommender · 2015–2024
5 mo on HN

MiniDisc - An Appreciation

Techmoan
5 HN recommender · 2019–2023
4 mo on HN

7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
5 HN recommender · 2016–2021
5 mo on HN

GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary

Google TechTalks
5 HN recommender · 2014–2026
4 mo on HN

Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS

Ahoy
4 HN recommender · 2015–2017
5 mo on HN

Bitcoin - Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto

Barely Sociable
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HN

How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technica

Ars Technica
5 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HN

BBS The Documentary: Episode 1 of 8: BAUD (The Beginning)

Jason Scott
4 HN recommender · 2019–2025
4 mo on HN

James Burke Legend Connections 1 The Trigger Effect

Tim Callinan
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HN

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary

Valve
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
4 mo on HN

The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth

Veritasium
5 HN recommender · 2023–2024
4 mo on HN

Inside a Huge PCB Factory

Strange Parts
4 HN recommender · 2018–2026
3 mo on HN

The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)

NCommander
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HN

I BOUGHT A WHOLE CHURCH ORGAN - Part 1 The Organs Removal

LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER
3 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HN

Derren Brown - The System (Full)

ScepticaTV
3 HN recommender · 2013–2017
3 mo on HN

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | full movie (2014)

moviemaniacsDE
3 HN recommender · 2015–2026