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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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10 mo on HNThe Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)
wonderingmind42
13 HN recommender · 2010–2025
11 mo on HNAlan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
powerfuloutlet
10 HN recommender · 2012–2026
11 mo on HNAntonin Scalia - On American Exceptionalism
AmericanRhetoric.com
12 HN recommender · 2019–2025
10 mo on HNThe Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)
media.ccc.de
10 HN recommender · 2017–2026
10 mo on HNCrockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years
YUI Library
10 HN recommender · 2013–2022
11 mo on HNStroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]
Not Just Bikes
12 HN recommender · 2021–2025
10 mo on HNControlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
Andrew Huberman
12 HN recommender · 2021–2024
10 mo on HNRailsConf 2016 - Turbolinks 5: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Native! by Sam Stephenson
Confreaks
6 HN recommender · 2017–2020
11 mo on HNADHD: Essential Ideas for Parents - Dr. Russell Barkely
ADHDtips
11 HN recommender · 2018–2025
10 mo on HNGrowing a Language, by Guy Steele
Bill Pugh
11 HN recommender · 2014–2026
10 mo on HNUSENIX Security '18-Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
USENIX
10 HN recommender · 2018–2026
10 mo on HNA Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
11 HN recommender · 2018–2026
10 mo on HNDefcon 18 Changing threats to privacy Moxie Marlinspike Part
killab66661
6 HN recommender · 2012–2019
10 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"
Paul Stringer's Mobile Tech
10 HN recommender · 2016–2022
11 mo on HNThe Thirty Million Line Problem
Molly Rocket
11 HN recommender · 2018–2024
10 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Matt Kulukundis “Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-friendly Hash Table, Step by Step”
CppCon
9 HN recommender · 2018–2026
10 mo on HNThe Cardboard Box Reform - Nixon's Ghost Bill & A Crucial Flaw in Democracy
CRI
9 HN recommender · 2014–2025
10 mo on HNEffective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
10 HN recommender · 2017–2026
9 mo on HNBrian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts
ClojureTV
10 HN recommender · 2014–2025
11 mo on HNMusic and Life - Alan Watts
seandulac
11 HN recommender · 2010–2022
10 mo on HNVCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan
Vintage Computer Federation
11 HN recommender · 2019–2025
9 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401)
Amazon Web Services
12 HN recommender · 2019–2025
9 mo on HNHarder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need
suckerpinch
12 HN recommender · 2022–2025
10 mo on HNBreakthrough in Nuclear Fusion? - Prof. Dennis Whyte
MIT Club of Northern California
11 HN recommender · 2016–2024
9 mo on HNThe Solar Gravitational Lens will Map Exoplanets. Seriously.
Launch Pad Astronomy
10 HN recommender · 2020–2025
10 mo on HNThe Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013)
Mladen Mijatov
13 HN recommender · 2013–2026
11 mo on HNLecture 1 | Machine Learning (Stanford)
Stanford
11 HN recommender · 2008–2020
10 mo on HNRuby Midwest 2011 - Keynote: Architecture the Lost Years by Robert Martin
Confreaks
10 HN recommender · 2013–2022
9 mo on HNConfessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur
UMBCtube
9 HN recommender · 2009–2023
10 mo on HNHamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)
securitylectures
11 HN recommender · 2012–2023
9 mo on HNRustConf 2018 - Closing Keynote - Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine West
Rust Programming Language
9 HN recommender · 2018–2023
10 mo on HNErlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp
Erlang Solutions
6 HN recommender · 2014–2022
10 mo on HNFear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek - The Original Economics Rap Battle!
Radical Discourse
10 HN recommender · 2010–2024
10 mo on HNA Tour of the Acme Editor
Russ Cox
11 HN recommender · 2012–2026
9 mo on HNA Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry
SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
7 HN recommender · 2021–2026
11 mo on HNHammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
12 HN recommender · 2014–2024