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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.

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3 mo on HN

Lower Latency Graph Queries in Cypher with Redis GraphRoi Lipman, Redis LabsTim Davis, Texas A&M U

Redis
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2023
4 mo on HN

CppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior..."

CppCon
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2026
3 mo on HN

KEYNOTE / Robert Erdmann

PyCon US
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2024
4 mo on HN

"A (Not So Gentle) Introduction To Systems Programming In ATS" by Aditya Siram

Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2022
3 mo on HN

ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack

textfilesdotcom
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2016
3 mo on HN

DEF CON 30 - Sam Bent - Tor - Darknet Opsec By a Veteran Darknet Vendor

DEFCONConference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2024–2024
3 mo on HN

Defcon 21 - Decapping Chips The Strike Easy Hard Way

HackersOnBoard
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2025
3 mo on HN

Dan Abramov The wet codebase

eswarnichtsmehrfrei
Recommended 3× on HN · 2023–2024
3 mo on HN

CppCon 2017: Chandler Carruth “Going Nowhere Faster”

CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2026
3 mo on HN

Let's #TalkConcurrency Panel Discussion with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt

Erlang Solutions
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2026
3 mo on HN

Stephan T. Lavavej “Floating-Point <charconv>: Making Your Code 10x Faster With C++17's Final Boss”

CppCon
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2022
3 mo on HN

Procedurally Crafting Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man

GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2022
3 mo on HN

Email Hates the Living

m
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2022
3 mo on HN

John Rauser keynote: "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" -- Strata + Hadoop 2014

O'Reilly
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2025
3 mo on HN

Connections between physics and deep learning

MITCBMM
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2026
3 mo on HN

Robust-first computing: Beyond efficiency

Dave Ackley
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2025
3 mo on HN

PRACTICE 2018: Joseph White

NYU Game Center
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2022
3 mo on HN

A visual guide to Bayesian thinking

Julia Galef
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2021
3 mo on HN

REcon 2013 - The Future of RE : Dynamic Binary Visualization (Christopher Domas)

Sébastien Duquette
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2024
3 mo on HN

James Mickens on JavaScript

tablet reader
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2025
3 mo on HN

CppCon 2016: Dan Saks “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++”

CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2025
3 mo on HN

1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality

GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2026
3 mo on HN

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy)

Stanford
Recommended 2× on HN · 2011–2023
3 mo on HN

Playing to Lose: AI and "Civilization" (Soren Johnson)

Google TechTalks
Recommended 2× on HN · 2011–2026
3 mo on HN

Armin Ronacher - A Python for Future Generations

EuroPython Conference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2020
3 mo on HN

Ricardo Signes - 闇のEメール伝説

yapcasia
Recommended 3× on HN · 2011–2021
3 mo on HN

New Horizons in Music: Polyrhythms | Loop

Ableton
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2023
3 mo on HN

Defeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)

TheSecurityTube
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2018
3 mo on HN

Hillel Wayne - Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level - PyCon 2018

PyCon 2018
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2023
3 mo on HN

If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk...

Steven Brant
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2025
3 mo on HN

DuckDB – The SQLite for Analytics (Mark Raasveldt, CWI)

CMU Database Group
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2026
3 mo on HN

Nordic.js 2014 • Douglas Crockford - The Better Parts

Nordic.js
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2023
3 mo on HN

Classic Game Postmortem: Fallout

GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2025
3 mo on HN

What is in a Lucene index? Adrien Grand, Software Engineer, Elasticsearch

LuceneSolrRevolution
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2020
3 mo on HN

The Mental Game of Python - Raymond Hettinger

SF Python
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2023
3 mo on HN

John Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013

IGN
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2021