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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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3 mo on HNRetroAhoy: The Secret of Monkey Island
Ahoy
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
4 mo on HNRailsConf 2014 - Keynote: Writing Software by David Heinemeier Hansson
Confreaks
3 HN recommender · 2014–2021
4 mo on HNPFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
4 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HNEntanglement and Complexity: Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
4 HN recommender · 2015–2023
3 mo on HN36C3 - BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier - english translation
media.ccc.de
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNDe-fragmenting C++: Making Exceptions and RTTI More Affordable and Usable - Herb Sutter CppCon 2019
CppCon
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HNEnergy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2009–2011
4 mo on HN"Turbo Encabulator" the Original
Dave Rondot
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
4 mo on HNLiterate Programming in the Large
Next Day Video
3 HN recommender · 2014–2024
3 mo on HNThe $200M Machine that Prints Microchips: The EUV Photolithography System
Branch Education
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNClockmaking - How To Make A Clock In The Home Machine Shop - Part 1 - Making The Clock Frames
Clickspring
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HNLars Andersen: A new level of archery
larsandersen23
4 HN recommender · 2015–2022
3 mo on HNOm Next - David Nolen
ClojureTV
3 HN recommender · 2015–2015
3 mo on HNLecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)
YC Root Access
3 HN recommender · 2014–2024
4 mo on HNDoctor Dissects the Wim Hof Method - Cold Hard Science Analysis
Medlife Crisis
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
4 mo on HNGeoffrey West on COMPLEXITY
FQxI
3 HN recommender · 2014–2018
3 mo on HNWar - Part Two: Anybody's Son Will Do (1 of 6)
Ingsoc75
3 HN recommender · 2013–2017
4 mo on HNHow a transistor works
Ben Eater
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNDEF CON 18 - Moxie Marlinspike - Changing Threats To Privacy: From TIA to Google
DEFCONConference
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
4 mo on HNA reality check on renewables - David MacKay
TED-Ed
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
4 mo on HNMicrosoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging
Brant Walsh
4 HN recommender · 2011–2026
3 mo on HN[1299] Unpickable Locks From Stuff Made Here
LockPickingLawyer
5 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNTimothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 14: Politics of Eternity, Politics of Inevitability
Timothy Snyder
2 HN recommender · 2018–2025
3 mo on HNLook Around You: Season 1 Pilot - Calcium
DocShadow660
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
3 mo on HNCD / Color
Captain Disillusion
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
4 mo on HNHow To Terraform Venus (Quickly)
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HNLeading Questions - Yes Prime Minister
LimeXd
4 HN recommender · 2012–2025
4 mo on HNBytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs
Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)
4 HN recommender · 2014–2023
3 mo on HNHomeless man talks openly about being addicted to heroin. We have an opioid crisis in America.
Invisible People
3 HN recommender · 2021–2021
3 mo on HNSocial Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
3 HN recommender · 2015–2022
4 mo on HNSurface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explained
runevision
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNSmall Planes Over Big Oceans (ETOPS Explained)
Wendover Productions
4 HN recommender · 2017–2020
3 mo on HNKeynote: Embedded Ethics by Patricia Aas
EuroBSDCon
3 HN recommender · 2019–2020
3 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Chris Domas - Repsych: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
3 mo on HN36C3 - Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware
media.ccc.de
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNLearning from dirty jobs | Mike Rowe
TED
4 HN recommender · 2012–2018