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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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2 mo on HNDesigner's Digest - Steve Jobs on the role of product and marketing people.
Designer's Digest
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNClojure for Java Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
2 HN recommender · 2013–2022
2 mo on HNOcarina of Time TAS by dwangoAC, TASBot, Savestate, Sauraen in 53:05 - Summer Games Done Quick 2022
Games Done Quick
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNAlphaFold - The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done
Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNEric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Fortune Debate, 2012
kykeon
2 HN recommender · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNDEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles
DEFCONConference
2 HN recommender · 2014–2025
2 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin
Program on Entrepreneurship
2 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNMilitarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes
Next Day Video
3 HN recommender · 2014–2023
2 mo on HNAlan Kay Demos GRaIL
Vincent Gable
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
2 mo on HNJustin Bieber 800% Slower
turinpt2
2 HN recommender · 2012–2024
2 mo on HNLouis CK honors George Carlin
Bromista5
2 HN recommender · 2011–2025
2 mo on HNRustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin
Rust Programming Language
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNNathan Barley - Episode 1
genuinelyfunnynazi
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNBringing the Unix Philosophy to Big Data by Bryan Cantrill: FutureStack13
New Relic
2 HN recommender · 2014–2022
2 mo on HN2023 LLVM Dev Mtg - Mojo 🔥: A system programming language for heterogenous computing
LLVM
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HNOpenAI Codex Live Demo
OpenAI
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HNChris Sacca of Lowercase Capital Pt. 2- TWiST #295
This Week in Startups
2 HN recommender · 2014–2016
2 mo on HNComputer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language design
University of Nottingham
3 HN recommender · 2015–2022
2 mo on HNScale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill, Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law
FunctionalTV
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions
Bite-sized Philosophy
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNWhy Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022
GOTO Conferences
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNRick Reed - WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users
iX
2 HN recommender · 2015–2019
2 mo on HNillumos day 2014: The Dream is Alive! Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel
illumos
2 HN recommender · 2014–2019
2 mo on HNEEVblog #555 - 555 Timer Kit
EEVblog
2 HN recommender · 2014–2019
2 mo on HNThis Invention Made Disney MILLIONS, but Then They LOST It!
Corridor Crew
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNMicrosoft "Courier" secret tablet
Neowin
2 HN recommender · 2010–2021
2 mo on HNObject-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example
Brian Will
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNSteve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 high definition.flv
Jed Joe
2 HN recommender · 2013–2017
2 mo on HNRimWorld: Contrarian, Ridiculous, and Impossible Game Design Methods
GDC Festival of Gaming
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNBrowser hacking: Let's make "Cookie Clicker" playable in Ladybird!
Andreas Kling
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HNExtreme transformer home in Hong Kong: Gary Chang's 24 rooms in 1
Kirsten Dirksen
2 HN recommender · 2019–2024
2 mo on HNThe Origins of Linux—Linus Torvalds
Computer History Museum
2 HN recommender · 2008–2014
2 mo on HNOral History of Donald Knuth Part 1
Computer History Museum
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNCppCon 2014: Jeff Preshing "How Ubisoft Develops Games for Multicore - Before and After C++11"
CppCon
2 HN recommender · 2015–2021
2 mo on HNHow Google's Self-Driving Car Works
IEEE Spectrum
2 HN recommender · 2012–2016
2 mo on HNHow We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away
Flight Software Workshop
2 HN recommender · 2026–2026