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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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11 mo on HNU.S. NAVY BASIC MECHANISMS OF FIRE CONTROL COMPUTERS MECHANICAL COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONAL FILM 27794
PeriscopeFilm
11 HN recommender · 2018–2026
10 mo on HNJavaScript: The Good Parts
Google TechTalks
11 HN recommender · 2009–2020
9 mo on HNThe Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can
engineerguy
9 HN recommender · 2016–2026
9 mo on HNHow Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica
Ars Technica
13 HN recommender · 2020–2026
10 mo on HNMarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games
SethBling
10 HN recommender · 2015–2026
9 mo on HNA Mind Is Born (256 bytes)
lftkryo
8 HN recommender · 2017–2025
10 mo on HNWhy This Channel Exists (and why I hate Houston)
Not Just Bikes
11 HN recommender · 2021–2025
11 mo on HNThe Loving Trap
Ben Woodhams
15 HN recommender · 2012–2026
9 mo on HNLISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
USENIX
9 HN recommender · 2012–2026
8 mo on HNTech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
Google
9 HN recommender · 2007–2023
10 mo on HNWhy American Cities Are Broke - The Growth Ponzi Scheme [ST03]
Not Just Bikes
14 HN recommender · 2021–2024
8 mo on HNDeep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
Andrej Karpathy
10 HN recommender · 2025–2026
10 mo on HNAlan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival
TheTedNelson
7 HN recommender · 2016–2025
9 mo on HNThe Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"
JustAdamCurtis
13 HN recommender · 2017–2025
9 mo on HNJonathan Blow - How to program independent games - CSUA Speech
Alexandre Franco
9 HN recommender · 2015–2026
9 mo on HNThe Engoodening of No Man's Sky
Internet Historian
9 HN recommender · 2020–2025
10 mo on HNTim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools
ClojureTV
9 HN recommender · 2014–2024
10 mo on HNBrian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad
jasonofthel33t
9 HN recommender · 2012–2024
10 mo on HNThe Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren
University of California Television (UCTV)
10 HN recommender · 2008–2022
9 mo on HN"Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza" by Martin Kleppmann
Strange Loop Conference
9 HN recommender · 2015–2025
9 mo on HNThe Problem With Facebook
2veritasium
3 HN recommender · 2014–2018
9 mo on HN"How NOT to Measure Latency" by Gil Tene
Strange Loop Conference
9 HN recommender · 2015–2026
9 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1035 - Paul Stamets
PowerfulJRE
10 HN recommender · 2017–2025
10 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
Royal Society of Arts
11 HN recommender · 2010–2022
10 mo on HNComputer program that learns to play classic NES games
suckerpinch
9 HN recommender · 2015–2025
9 mo on HNRuby Conf 12 - Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt
Confreaks
8 HN recommender · 2015–2024
10 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”
CppCon
13 HN recommender · 2016–2024
9 mo on HNUSENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
USENIX
12 HN recommender · 2021–2026
9 mo on HNWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
Veritasium
9 HN recommender · 2020–2024
9 mo on HNThe Only Unbreakable Law
Molly Rocket
12 HN recommender · 2022–2026
9 mo on HNDr. Michael Greger | How Not To Die | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
8 HN recommender · 2016–2022
9 mo on HNUsing Python to Code by Voice
Next Day Video
12 HN recommender · 2013–2025
8 mo on HNClasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming
Google TechTalks
8 HN recommender · 2015–2024
9 mo on HNPersonal Growth Series: Dr. William Dement on Healthy Sleep and Optimal Perfo...
Google TechTalks
6 HN recommender · 2008–2024
10 mo on HNMarty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart
Pierce College District WA
6 HN recommender · 2015–2024
8 mo on HN"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)
ClojureTV
9 HN recommender · 2021–2026