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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.
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3 mo on HNLower 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 HNCppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior..."
CppCon
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNKEYNOTE / 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 HNARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack
textfilesdotcom
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2016
3 mo on HNDEF CON 30 - Sam Bent - Tor - Darknet Opsec By a Veteran Darknet Vendor
DEFCONConference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2024–2024
3 mo on HNDefcon 21 - Decapping Chips The Strike Easy Hard Way
HackersOnBoard
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2025
3 mo on HNDan Abramov The wet codebase
eswarnichtsmehrfrei
Recommended 3× on HN · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Chandler Carruth “Going Nowhere Faster”
CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2026
3 mo on HNLet's #TalkConcurrency Panel Discussion with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt
Erlang Solutions
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2026
3 mo on HNStephan 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 HNProcedurally Crafting Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNEmail Hates the Living
m
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2022
3 mo on HNJohn Rauser keynote: "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" -- Strata + Hadoop 2014
O'Reilly
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2025
3 mo on HNConnections between physics and deep learning
MITCBMM
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNRobust-first computing: Beyond efficiency
Dave Ackley
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2025
3 mo on HNPRACTICE 2018: Joseph White
NYU Game Center
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2022
3 mo on HNA visual guide to Bayesian thinking
Julia Galef
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNREcon 2013 - The Future of RE : Dynamic Binary Visualization (Christopher Domas)
Sébastien Duquette
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2024
3 mo on HNJames Mickens on JavaScript
tablet reader
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2025
3 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Dan Saks “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++”
CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2025
3 mo on HN1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNSteve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy)
Stanford
Recommended 2× on HN · 2011–2023
3 mo on HNPlaying to Lose: AI and "Civilization" (Soren Johnson)
Google TechTalks
Recommended 2× on HN · 2011–2026
3 mo on HNArmin Ronacher - A Python for Future Generations
EuroPython Conference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2020
3 mo on HNRicardo Signes - 闇のEメール伝説
yapcasia
Recommended 3× on HN · 2011–2021
3 mo on HNNew Horizons in Music: Polyrhythms | Loop
Ableton
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNDefeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)
TheSecurityTube
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2018
3 mo on HNHillel Wayne - Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level - PyCon 2018
PyCon 2018
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNIf Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk...
Steven Brant
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNDuckDB – The SQLite for Analytics (Mark Raasveldt, CWI)
CMU Database Group
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNNordic.js 2014 • Douglas Crockford - The Better Parts
Nordic.js
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2023
3 mo on HNClassic Game Postmortem: Fallout
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2025
3 mo on HNWhat is in a Lucene index? Adrien Grand, Software Engineer, Elasticsearch
LuceneSolrRevolution
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2020
3 mo on HNThe Mental Game of Python - Raymond Hettinger
SF Python
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2023
3 mo on HNJohn Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013
IGN
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2021