Categories
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.
Type
TalkLectureDocumentaryExplainerDemoTutorialInterviewCommentaryComedyMusicPodcastsNews & reportingCoursesFeatures
Evergreen only
11 mo on HN“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — Part 1
Ben Eater
11 HN recommender · 2019–2026
10 mo on HNPainting a Character with Maths
Inigo Quilez
13 HN recommender · 2021–2025
10 mo on HNA Tour of the Acme Editor
Russ Cox
11 HN recommender · 2012–2026
11 mo on HNU.S. NAVY BASIC MECHANISMS OF FIRE CONTROL COMPUTERS MECHANICAL COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONAL FILM 27794
PeriscopeFilm
11 HN recommender · 2018–2026
8 mo on HNLet's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.
Andrej Karpathy
14 HN recommender · 2023–2025
8 mo on HNA Hackers' Guide to Language Models
Jeremy Howard
8 HN recommender · 2023–2024
7 mo on HNThe world's worst video card?
Ben Eater
8 HN recommender · 2019–2024
7 mo on HNI painted a Landscape with Mathematics
Inigo Quilez
7 HN recommender · 2022–2025
7 mo on HNEmacs Rocks! Episode 14: Paredit
emacsrocks
8 HN recommender · 2013–2022
5 mo on HNCreating a Doom-style 3D engine in C
Bisqwit
3 HN recommender · 2015–2019
5 mo on HNTensorflow and deep learning - without a PhD by Martin Görner
Devoxx
6 HN recommender · 2017–2020
6 mo on HNHow does a USB keyboard work?
Ben Eater
7 HN recommender · 2021–2025
6 mo on HNBuild a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5
Chris McCord
7 HN recommender · 2020–2025
6 mo on HNAmiga Hardware Programming 1 - Use the Assembler and wait for left click
ScoopexUs
4 HN recommender · 2015–2024
6 mo on HNYou Suck at Excel - Joel Spolsky (Reupload)
Cool Bug Facts
7 HN recommender · 2024–2026
5 mo on HNORCA Sequencer Intro (Experimental Livecoding!)
Allieway Audio
4 HN recommender · 2019–2025
4 mo on HNJavascript in 2015
Glen Maddern
3 HN recommender · 2015–2017
4 mo on HNDavid Beazley - Lambda Calculus from the Ground Up - PyCon 2019
PyCon 2019
4 HN recommender · 2019–2021
5 mo on HNI made a NES emulator in 15 minutes
Bisqwit
3 HN recommender · 2013–2022
4 mo on HNLearn Low Poly Modeling in Blender 2.9 / 2.8
Imphenzia
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNHello World - Machine Learning Recipes #1
Google for Developers
6 HN recommender · 2016–2017
4 mo on HNi3wm: Jump Start (1/3)
Alex Booker
4 HN recommender · 2015–2020
3 mo on HNDepth-first search in APL
Dyalog
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
4 mo on HNIntro to C on Windows - Day 1
Molly Rocket
4 HN recommender · 2014–2022
4 mo on HNE-paper hacking: fastest possible refresh rate
Applied Science
4 HN recommender · 2018–2021
4 mo on HNBuilding a 6800 CPU on an FPGA with nMigen (part 1)
Robert Baruch
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNFreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 1 | Setup , preferences and navigation | Easy Tutorial for Learning CAD
MangoJelly Solutions for FreeCAD
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNBlockchain 101 - A Visual Demo
Anders Brownworth
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNChristophe Pettus - PostgreSQL Proficiency for Python People - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
3 HN recommender · 2016–2016
3 mo on HNBlender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial - Part 1
Blender Guru
4 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HNLet Vim Do the Typing
thoughtbot
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNEmacs From Scratch #1 - Getting Started with a Basic Usable Configuration
System Crafters
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNiPhone Magnifier and Voice over
Kristy Viers
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNMonad - FunFunFunction #21
Fun Fun Function
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNClojure in a nutshell by James Trunk
Func Prog Sweden
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNWorld’s Best Speakers!
Tech Ingredients
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025