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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The Making of: ROM City Rampage (Retro City Rampage)

"Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming tools" by Max Brunsfeld

CppCon 2016: Herb Sutter “Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default.”

Liberating Distributed Consensus - Heidi Howard

Stanford Seminar - Google's Steve Yegge on GROK

10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU

Pitfall Classic Postmortem With David Crane Panel at GDC 2011 (Atari 2600)

Matt Might - Winning the War on Error Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer

Toybox vs BusyBox - Rob Landley, hobbyist

Sid Meier's Psychology of Game Design

Lone Star Ruby Conference 2010 Real Software Engineering by Glenn Vanderburg

The Functional Programmer's Toolkit - Scott Wlaschin

GDC 2018: John McDonald (Valve) - Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in CSGO

Understanding the Python GIL

34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!

Identity 2.0 Keynote

Herbert Wolverson - Procedural Map Generation Techniques

29C3 Panel: Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake, William Binney on whistleblowing and surveillance

ElixirConf 2018 - Keynote - Chris McCord

C++ Exceptions for Smaller Firmware - Khalil Estell - CppCon 2024

MINIX 3: a Modular, Self-Healing POSIX-compatible Operating System

"A Political History of X" - Keith Packard (LCA 2020)

React Today and Tomorrow and 90% Cleaner React With Hooks

Religions and babies | Hans Rosling

Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr.

Deskbound | Kelly Starrett | Talks at Google

Bret Victor - Seeing Spaces

Rust's Journey to Async/Await

CppCon 2017: Louis Brandy “Curiously Recurring C++ Bugs at Facebook”

The Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation - Conal Elliott

Concurrency is not Parallelism by Rob Pike

RustLatam 2019 - Without Boats: Zero-Cost Async IO

John Hughes - Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane

Practical Creativity

Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018

Four Dimensional Maths: Things to See and Hear in the Fourth Dimension - with Matt Parker