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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Nina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule - DEF CON 27 Conference

FailCon 2011 - Uber Case Study

DjangoCon 2022 | From React to htmx on a real-world SaaS product: we did it, and it's awesome!

Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores

Halide Talk

Ron Pressler - Pull Push: Please stop polluting our imperative languages with pure concepts-Curry On

Keynote: Begin...End?

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

36C3 - BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier - english translation

De-fragmenting C++: Making Exceptions and RTTI More Affordable and Usable - Herb Sutter CppCon 2019

Literate Programming in the Large

Om Next - David Nolen

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

Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen

Blockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money [Classic Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Talk]

"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

Lin Clark - A Cartoon Intro to Fiber - React Conf 2017

Introduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub