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

Sort by

Type

Features

Raymond Hettinger, Keynote on Concurrency, PyBay 2017

Emacs For Writers

"Finding bugs without running or even looking at code" by Jay Parlar

The real story behind Wayland and X

"We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman (2011)

Golang UK Conf. 2016 - Liz Rice - What is a container, really? Let's write one in Go from scratch

React.js Conf 2015 - Immutable Data and React

Andrew Kelley: A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD)

Greg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing - Code on the Beach 2014

SQLite: The Database at the Edge of the Network with Dr. Richard Hipp

Stuart Halloway - Narcissistic Design

Simon Peyton Jones: Data Parallel Haskell

Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks

John Wiegley: Putting Lenses to Work

DEF CON 19 - Moxie Marlinspike - SSL And The Future Of Authenticity

iPhone 1 - Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote in 2007 - Full Presentation, 80 mins

Netflix JavaScript Talks - Async JavaScript with Reactive Extensions

Elm Europe 2017 - Evan Czaplicki - The life of a file

!!Con 2017: HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! by Kevin Chen

Autonomous Testing and the Future of Software Development - Will Wilson

CppCon 2015: Herb Sutter "Writing Good C++14... By Default"

Replace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux - Ronald Minnich, Google

re:publica 2015 - Aral Balkan: Beyond The Camera Panopticon

A New Way to look at Networking

The Road to PS5

Design Patterns vs Anti pattern in APL by Aaron W Hsu at FnConf17

Dasher: information-efficient text entry

The A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023

Preface | MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus

Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - 2005

Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming

Real Analysis, Lecture 1: Constructing the Rational Numbers

Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4

How to crash an airplane – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2016

Domain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin - KanDDDinsky 2019

Velocity 2012: Richard Cook, "How Complex Systems Fail"