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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The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd

AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)

Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer

Lec 1 | MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005

DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population

Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp

[LIVE] How to Achieve Proper Grounding - Rick Hartley - Expert Live Training (US)

Lecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986

The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)

Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years

Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)

Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT

Brian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad

The Only Unbreakable Law

Refterm Lecture Part 1 - Philosophies of Optimization

Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra

Lecture 6: Version Control (git) (2020)

Category Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy

Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens)

Clean Code - Uncle Bob / Lesson 1

Richard Feynman Computer Science Lecture - Hardware, Software and Heuristics

01 - Course Introduction & Relational Model (CMU Databases Systems / Fall 2019)

Simple Code, High Performance

Paxos lecture (Raft user study)

Secret History of Silicon Valley

How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Lambda Calculus - Fundamentals of Lambda Calculus & Functional Programming in JavaScript

Floyd Toole - Sound reproduction – art and science/opinions and facts

How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"A Conjecture That Had To Be True" (2017)

Michael Stonebraker | Big Data is (at least) Four Different Problems

Arithmetic, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett

Distributed Systems 1.1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond

Control Bootcamp: Overview