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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Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd -- BSDCan 2018

2017 ACM PPoPP Keynote: It's Time for a New Old Language

"What UNIX Cost Us" - Benno Rice (LCA 2020)

Mark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [JSConf2014]

RailsConf 2014 - Keynote: Writing Software by David Heinemeier Hansson

Literate Programming in the Large

DEF CON 18 - Moxie Marlinspike - Changing Threats To Privacy: From TIA to Google

Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google

Keynote: Embedded Ethics by Patricia Aas

DEF CON 23 - Chris Domas - Repsych: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering

36C3 - Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware

DEFCON 17: That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars

Emily Shea - "Perl Out Loud"

RailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something

Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud

Ali Rahimi's talk at NIPS(NIPS 2017 Test-of-time award presentation)

"Data Driven UIs, Incrementally" by Yaron Minsky

"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega

RailsConf 2019 - Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson

J B Rainsberger Integrated Tests Are A Scam HD

Practical Common Lisp

Macworld Boston 1997-The Microsoft Deal

Introduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub

DEF CON 29 - Richard Henderson - Old MacDonald Had a Barcode, E I E I CAR

Gabriella Gonzalez – How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer

"Agile Methods The Good, the Hype and the Ugly," Bertrand Meyer

DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - GOD MODE UNLOCKED Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86

"Why do you lock your door?" - RVASec 2012

CppCon 2016: Nicholas Ormrod “The strange details of std::string at Facebook"

"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore

Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

Steve Jobs Insult Response - Highest Quality

Moishe Lettvin - What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google

Cgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from?

CppCon 2015: Sean Parent "Better Code: Data Structures"

AT&T Archives: Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign