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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code::dive conference 2014 - Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care

CppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “C++ atomics, from basic to advanced. What do they really do?”

25c3: The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk

Stanford Seminar - Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to Metal

GDC 2010: Sid Meier Keynote - "Everything You Know is Wrong"

Lambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram

Lenses, Folds, and Traversals

A real person, a lot like you

Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012

Saving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024

A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick

How to Speed up a Python Program 114,000 times.

35C3 - The Ghost in the Machine

MountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk

Bret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations

27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)

A New Way to look at Networking

John Carmack Tech Talk with UMKC-SCE

The Surprising History of Copyright and What It Means For...

C++Now 2018: Matt Godbolt “What Else Has My Compiler Done For Me Lately?”

Google Developers Day US - Theorizing from Data

CppCon 2015: Chandler Carruth "Tuning C++: Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!"

Procedural Programming: It Never Went Away — Kevlin Henney | Build Stuff

Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot

Solid Ground // Saša Jurić

C++ Seasoning

BlueHat Seattle 2019 || Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story

The User is Drunk

DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow

NVScene 2015 Session: How to Create Content with Signed Distance Functions (Johann Korndörfer)

What nobody tells you about documentation

Moxie Marlinspike, Next Generation Threats 2014

#Gamelab2018 - Jon Blow's Design decisions on creating Jai a new language for game programmers

Linux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016

CRDTs: The Hard Parts

Let’s go whaling: Tricks for monetising mobile game players with free-to-play