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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Lecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)

2. Behavioral Evolution

Building Your Own Dynamic Language

Colossus - The Greatest Secret in the History of Computing

Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction

ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack

Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson

DEF CON 30 - Sam Bent - Tor - Darknet Opsec By a Veteran Darknet Vendor

Defcon 21 - Decapping Chips The Strike Easy Hard Way

Dan Abramov The wet codebase

CppCon 2017: Chandler Carruth “Going Nowhere Faster”

Let's #TalkConcurrency Panel Discussion with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt

AWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets

Stephan T. Lavavej “Floating-Point ＜charconv＞: Making Your Code 10x Faster With C++17's Final Boss”

Procedurally Crafting Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man

Email Hates the Living

QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote

John Rauser keynote: "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" -- Strata + Hadoop 2014

Connections between physics and deep learning

CheerpX: a WebAssembly-based x86 virtual machine in the browser, Yuri Iozzelli

Robust-first computing: Beyond efficiency

PRACTICE 2018: Joseph White

A visual guide to Bayesian thinking

REcon 2013 - The Future of RE : Dynamic Binary Visualization (Christopher Domas)

James Mickens on JavaScript

CppCon 2016: Dan Saks “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++”

1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy)

Playing to Lose: AI and "Civilization" (Soren Johnson)

Armin Ronacher - A Python for Future Generations

ai.bythebay.io: George Hotz, Self-Driving Lessons from Comma AI

Ricardo Signes - 闇のEメール伝説

New Horizons in Music: Polyrhythms | Loop

Defeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)

Hillel Wayne - Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level - PyCon 2018

If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk...