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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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4 mo on HNDEF CON 29 - Richard Henderson - Old MacDonald Had a Barcode, E I E I CAR
DEFCONConference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2026
4 mo on HNGabriella Gonzalez – How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer
Konfy
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN"Agile Methods The Good, the Hype and the Ugly," Bertrand Meyer
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2024
4 mo on HNKeynote - JSON Graph: Reactive REST at Netflix
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Recommended 4× on HN · 2015–2023
3 mo on HNDEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - GOD MODE UNLOCKED Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86
DEFCONConference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2019–2026
3 mo on HN"Why do you lock your door?" - RVASec 2012
Schuyler Towne
Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2020
4 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Nicholas Ormrod “The strange details of std::string at Facebook"
CppCon
Recommended 4× on HN · 2018–2026
4 mo on HN"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2024
4 mo on HNEdwin Brady - Idris 2: Type-driven development of Idris | Code Mesh LDN 18
Code Sync
Recommended 5× on HN · 2018–2024
3 mo on HNWriting a Wayland Compositor in Zig - Isaac Freund
Zig SHOWTIME
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2021
4 mo on HNBret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
Colin McDonnell
Recommended 4× on HN · 2015–2026
3 mo on HNSteve Jobs Insult Response - Highest Quality
Jonathan Field
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2026
4 mo on HNMoishe Lettvin - What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google
Etsy Eng (Etsy Engineering)
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2025
3 mo on HNCgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from?
Docker
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Sean Parent "Better Code: Data Structures"
CppCon
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2021
4 mo on HNIntroduction to LibrePCB A new, powerful and intuitive EDA tool for everyone
FOSDEM
Recommended 1× on HN · 2018–2021
3 mo on HNAT&T Archives: Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign
AT&T Tech Channel
Recommended 2× on HN · 2022–2024
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 HNRails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson
Ruby on Rails
Recommended 6× on HN · 2024–2025
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 HNAWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets
Amazon Web Services
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2020
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
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Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2022
3 mo on HNQuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote
QuakeCon Official
Recommended 3× on HN · 2011–2018
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 HNCheerpX: a WebAssembly-based x86 virtual machine in the browser, Yuri Iozzelli
WebAssembly NA
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2025