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Best Tech Talks on YouTube, Ranked by Hacker News
Conference talks and lectures 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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12 mo on HNStanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)
Stanford
14 HN recommender · 2009–2026
11 mo on HNThe Continuity of Splines
Freya Holmér
10 HN recommender · 2022–2026
12 mo on HNJustice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"
Harvard University
11 HN recommender · 2013–2025
11 mo on HNVideo explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop
Landon Proctor
15 HN recommender · 2011–2026
11 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “std::allocator...”
CppCon
7 HN recommender · 2017–2025
13 mo on HNJim Simons (full length interview) - Numberphile
Numberphile2
11 HN recommender · 2015–2024
12 mo on HNReverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!
suckerpinch
12 HN recommender · 2018–2025
12 mo on HNSugar: THE BITTER TRUTH
University of California Television (UCTV)
13 HN recommender · 2010–2024
11 mo on HNDesigning the Ideal Bootstrapped Business with Jason Cohen
Rob Walling
13 HN recommender · 2020–2024
12 mo on HNHow Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)
Not Just Bikes
17 HN recommender · 2024–2026
11 mo on HNLight Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
TNMoC
11 HN recommender · 2021–2026
11 mo on HNSteve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
JoshuaG
13 HN recommender · 2007–2015
13 mo on HNQuantum Computing for Computer Scientists
Microsoft Research
12 HN recommender · 2018–2025
12 mo on HNJuice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho
grapefrukt
12 HN recommender · 2013–2025
12 mo on HNLexical Scanning in Go - Rob Pike
GoogleFOSSSydney
13 HN recommender · 2012–2025
11 mo on HN“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — Part 1
Ben Eater
11 HN recommender · 2019–2026
12 mo on HNWilliam Byrd on "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" [PWL NYC]
PapersWeLove
11 HN recommender · 2017–2026
11 mo on HNWhat Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018
The Artificial Intelligence Channel
12 HN recommender · 2018–2024
12 mo on HNLec 1 | MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005
MIT OpenCourseWare
11 HN recommender · 2011–2020
12 mo on HNDetergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)
Technology Connections
15 HN recommender · 2021–2025
11 mo on HN"Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson
Strange Loop Conference
12 HN recommender · 2014–2024
11 mo on HNWhat Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us
CGP Grey
11 HN recommender · 2014–2026
11 mo on HNBehind the Scenes of iOS Security
Black Hat
9 HN recommender · 2016–2026
11 mo on HN🚀 TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong (Ian Cooper)
DevTernity Conference
11 HN recommender · 2018–2024
11 mo on HNBret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Rui Oliveira
12 HN recommender · 2013–2025
11 mo on HNThis Is Phil Fish
Innuendo Studios
5 HN recommender · 2014–2025
11 mo on HNJames Burke Connections, Ep. 1 "The Trigger Effect"
DRS_Education
12 HN recommender · 2019–2026
12 mo on HNHow To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
Google TechTalks
12 HN recommender · 2011–2025
10 mo on HNelevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)
Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras)
7 HN recommender · 2013–2025
12 mo on HNHans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC
BBC
10 HN recommender · 2010–2023
12 mo on HNMechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers
Excelsior10000
13 HN recommender · 2014–2025
12 mo on HNThe Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile
Computerphile
12 HN recommender · 2014–2026
11 mo on HNThe Value of Values with Rich Hickey
InfoQ
10 HN recommender · 2014–2023
12 mo on HNProject Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary
The Documentary Network
13 HN recommender · 2015–2026
11 mo on HNBret Victor The Future of Programming
Joey Reid
12 HN recommender · 2017–2026
11 mo on HNJan Willem Nijman - Vlambeer - "The art of screenshake" at INDIGO Classes 2013
Dutch Game Garden
10 HN recommender · 2014–2025