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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Micro Men - 720p (2009)

Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers

Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary

The Engoodening of No Man's Sky

Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED

AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System

TempleOS | Down the Rabbit Hole

Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit

This is Financial Advice

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

The Art of Making a Nixie Tube

Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon

Moleman 2 - Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms (2012)

James Burke Connections, Ep. 4 "Faith in Numbers"

Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music

Building The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1

Over 200,000 Servers in One Place! Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence

Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History

UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories

MiniDisc - An Appreciation

7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars

GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary

Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS

Bitcoin - Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto

Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers

How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technica

BBS The Documentary: Episode 1 of 8: BAUD (The Beginning)

James Burke Legend Connections 1 The Trigger Effect

The Extreme Physics Pushing Moore’s Law to the Next Level

THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary