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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Saša Jurić - Parsing from first principles - WebCamp Zagreb 2019

Andrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014

Does APL Need a Type System? by Aaron W Hsu at #FnConf18

Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation

High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle Drake

Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules

Google Developers Day US - Python Design Patterns

Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019

Defcon 21 - The Secret Life of SIM Cards

Origins of Go Concurrency style by Rob Pike

The Search for the Perfect Door - Deviant Ollam

miniKanren - Dan Friedman and William Byrd

OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void"

Jared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)

Free software, free society: Richard Stallman at TEDxGeneva 2014

Black Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies

DEFCON 20: Hacker + Airplanes = No Good Can Come Of This

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019

Bryan Cantrill on ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache [PWL SF] 10/2017

Making Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote

The call to learn | Clifford Stoll

Emojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App

"Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager" by Aaron Cummings

Making R run Fast - Jan Vitek

BSidesLV 2013 3 2 7 Sixteen Colors Archiving the Evolution of ANSI and ASCII Art Doug Moore Bren

"Building a Toolkit for Design" by Matthew Griffith

Jake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers - PyCon 2016.mp4

Classic Game Postmortem - Another World

How to Survive in Gamedev for Eleven Years Without a Hit

DEFCON 19: Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! (w speaker)

Bob Nystrom - Is There More to Game Architecture than ECS?

GopherCon 2016: The Design of the Go Assembler - Rob Pike

C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter - atomic Weapons 2 of 2

Animation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH