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.

Best Tech Talks on YouTube, Ranked by Hacker News

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How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)

This Is Phil Fish

Object-Oriented Programming is Bad

This Video Is Sponsored By ███ VPN

Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius

VidMe or Why Platforms Aren't Your Friends

Why Are You So Angry? Part 1: A Short History of Anita Sarkeesian

Incels | ContraPoints

Manufactured Discontent and Fortnite

Net Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

The Patent Scam Intro

Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse

Object-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples

Canceling | ContraPoints

Pig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views

Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective

Ross's Game Dungeon: Deus Ex

"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance

Exposing Tether - Bitcoin's Biggest Secret

Flat Earth: A Measured Response

We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. 🫥

Music Software & Interface Design: MuseScore

Did Nintendo really forget to Optimize Super Mario 64 ? | MVG

Space Station 13 Review | AHELP: Clown Grief Pls Ban He™

Windows 8: The Animated Evaluation

What Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games

TUN: Un-Ruining the MMO

The GUI should be better. A lot better.

the sham legacy of Richard Feynman

Getting GPLv2 Compliance From A Chinese Company- In Person!

GPT-4chan: This is the worst AI ever

What 40,000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending Tab

Gambling and the desire machine | Pay to Win

Ross's Game Dungeon: Deus Ex - Human Revolution