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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"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell

Diablo: Original Game Development

Put Your Name on Your Game, a Talk by Bennett Foddy and Zach Gage

Procedural World Generation of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 | Etienne Carrier | Houdini HIVE Utrecht

A Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click

Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018

Console Hacking 2016 (33c3)

#NoEstimates (Allen Holub)

Modern C and What We Can Learn From It - Luca Sas [ ACCU 2021 ]

Software Art Thou: Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering

Differential Synchronization

Ryan Dahl - History of Node.js

"Programming Should Eat Itself" by Nada Amin

Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions, and the Future of Corporations

Joe Armstrong & Jeremy Ruston - Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang | Code Mesh LDN 18

Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - The Ring 0 Facade Awakening the Processors Inner Demons

Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)

Ichthyology: Phishing as a Science

"Tackling Concurrency Bugs with TLA+" by Hillel Wayne

Howard Payne & Deviant Ollam - This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key

Monads and Gonads

CppCon 2015: Timur Doumler “C++ in the Audio Industry”

"Compacting the Uncompactable" by Bobby Powers

Classic Game Postmortem: Alone in the Dark

Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No

Category Theory in Life - Eugenia Cheng

High-performance Tree Wrangling, the APL Way // Aaron Hsu // Dyalog '18

The Art of the Bodge: How I Made The Emoji Keyboard

Joscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)

Netanel Rubin: The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability

Netdev 0x16 - Keynote: It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter

Category Theory by Tom LaGatta

Brian Warner - Magic Wormhole- Simple Secure File Transfer - PyCon 2016.mp4

LibreSSL: The first 30 days, and what the Future Holds

RacketCon 2013: Dan Liebgold - Racket on the Playstation 3? It's Not What you Think!