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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 HNBuild an electroluminescent glass panel display -- an Apollo DSKY
Applied Science
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HNHere's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS
Troy Hunt
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNBBS The.Documentary Part 4 - Fidonet
bbsers
2 HN recommender · 2014–2019
2 mo on HNTutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking
NANOG
2 HN recommender · 2017–2018
2 mo on HNShawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland
Foresight Institute
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HNMars DOS demo by Tim Clarke (1993)
Sean Barrett
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
2 mo on HNAI Slop Is Destroying The Internet
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNCambridge Ideas - Professor Risk
Cambridge University
2 HN recommender · 2013–2022
2 mo on HNHacker Interviews: Larry Wall
The BXI
2 HN recommender · 2013–2024
2 mo on HNMax Headroom 20 minutes into the future 1985
Kevin Galvayne
2 HN recommender · 2019–2024
2 mo on HNPhilip Wadler - Propositions as Types (Lambda Days 2016)
Erlang Solutions
2 HN recommender · 2016–2021
2 mo on HNDynamic Languages Wizards Series - Panel on Language Design
Eduardo Cavazos
1 HN recommend · 2014–2025
2 mo on HNSuper Mario World Ending Theme sight-read by Tom Brier
Keeper1st
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNInterview with an Agile Coach - Sprint1
Kai Lentit
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HNBlack Hat 2013 - OPSEC Failures of Spies
HackersOnBoard
2 HN recommender · 2014–2019
2 mo on HNThe Super-Fast Logistics of Delivering Blood By Drone
Wendover Productions
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HNREBL - Stuart Halloway
ClojureTV
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
2 mo on HNWhy is this number everywhere?
Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HN"How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010)
Strange Loop Conference
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HNHow I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million
Joe Grand
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HNHow Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings
Technology Connections
2 HN recommender · 2019–2026
2 mo on HNEpic 2014
jessanmur
2 HN recommender · 2021–2026
2 mo on HNHonest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law
thejuicemedia
3 HN recommender · 2018–2019
2 mo on HNBarliman: trying the halting problem backwards, blindfolded - William Byrd, Greg Rosenblatt
ClojureTV
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNHans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box
TED
2 HN recommender · 2013–2020
2 mo on HNRiot On Documentary (2002)
Caroline bruins
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNThe Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy: EventID=104573
House Committee on the Judiciary
3 HN recommender · 2016–2017
2 mo on HNReinventing Organizations
Reinventing Organizations
3 HN recommender · 2014–2020
2 mo on HNOculus Connect Keynote: John Carmack
Meta VR
2 HN recommender · 2014–2021
2 mo on HNSaifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #284
Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HNI Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
Benn Jordan
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNEdward Kmett - Type Classes vs. the World
Boston Haskell
2 HN recommender · 2015–2024
2 mo on HNApollo Core Rope Memory (Apollo Guidance Computer Part 30)
CuriousMarc
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HNDIY haptic input knob: BLDC motor + round LCD
scottbez1
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HNZig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains
JetBrains
5 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HNDesign Microservice Architectures the Right Way
InfoQ
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021