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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 HNRailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something
Confreaks
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2024
3 mo on HNEben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud
Punkcast
Recommended 3× on HN · 2011–2018
3 mo on HNAli Rahimi's talk at NIPS(NIPS 2017 Test-of-time award presentation)
ObservantVids
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2025
4 mo on HN"Data Driven UIs, Incrementally" by Yaron Minsky
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2018–2022
4 mo on HNHans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
TED
Recommended 4× on HN · 2011–2017
3 mo on HNBlockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money [Classic Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Talk]
aantonop
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2017
3 mo on HN"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2023–2024
4 mo on HNRailsConf 2019 - Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson
Confreaks
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2022
4 mo on HNJ B Rainsberger Integrated Tests Are A Scam HD
Christopher Cabanne
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2023
4 mo on HNPractical Common Lisp
Google TechTalks
Recommended 3× on HN · 2011–2025
3 mo on HNMacworld Boston 1997-The Microsoft Deal
JoshuaG
Recommended 3× on HN · 2010–2024
3 mo on HNLin Clark - A Cartoon Intro to Fiber - React Conf 2017
Meta Developers
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNIntroduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub
InfoQ
Recommended 3× on HN · 2012–2016
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
4 mo on HNWhy the world population won’t exceed 11 billion | Hans Rosling | TGS.ORG
THINK Global School
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2023
4 mo on HNLecture 19: Dynamic Programming I: Fibonacci, Shortest Paths
MIT OpenCourseWare
Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2021