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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But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction.

But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1

The Beauty of Bézier Curves

D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)

The Continuity of Splines

Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)

What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC

The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile

Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea

But how does bitcoin actually work?

Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5

YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.

The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours

The Problem With Facebook

Why Being Delusional is a Superpower

The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT): Most Ingenious Algorithm Ever?

Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

Is Most Published Research Wrong?

The Extreme Engineering of ASML’s EUV Light Source

America Keeps Rejecting an ID Card It Already Has

Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

A Swift Introduction to Geometric Algebra

The hardest problem on the hardest test

Once you understand game theory, you understand the world.

Wealth Inequality in America

The Voting System That Should Replace Every Election

The determinant | Chapter 6, Essence of linear algebra

FIXING the ENTIRE SM64 Source Code (INSANE N64 performance)

Unix and Google

Math's Fundamental Flaw

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs

Why Would AI Want to do Bad Things? Instrumental Convergence

Fractals are typically not self-similar

The Banach–Tarski Paradox

Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea - Computerphile