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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 HNGoogle I/O 2013 - High Performance Audio
Google for Developers
Recommended 4× on HN · 2013–2018
3 mo on HNSaving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024
!!Con
Recommended 4× on HN · 2024–2026
3 mo on HNA Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick
bsdconferences
Recommended 3× on HN · 2013–2017
3 mo on HNHow to Speed up a Python Program 114,000 times.
InfoQ
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2022
3 mo on HN35C3 - The Ghost in the Machine
media.ccc.de
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNMountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk
Confreaks
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2024
3 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Adrian Crenshaw- Dropping Docs on Darknets: How People Got Caught
DEFCONConference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2024
3 mo on HNBret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations
Colin McDonnell
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2025
3 mo on HN27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)
Christiaan008
Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2021
3 mo on HN[CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla
WAD at CVPR
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNCharlie Marsh: uv: An Extremely Fast Python Package Manager
Jane Street
Recommended 3× on HN · 2024–2025
3 mo on HNElixirConf 2023 - José Valim - The foundations of the Elixir type system
ElixirConf
Recommended 3× on HN · 2023–2026
3 mo on HNA New Way to look at Networking
Google TechTalks
Recommended 3× on HN · 2012–2024
3 mo on HNClojureScript for Skeptics - Derek Slager
ClojureTV
Recommended 4× on HN · 2015–2017
3 mo on HNBruce Hauman - Developing ClojureScript With Figwheel
ClojureTV
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNJohn Carmack Tech Talk with UMKC-SCE
UMKC School of Science and Engineering
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNThe Surprising History of Copyright and What It Means For...
Google TechTalks
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNThe Power of Big Data and Psychographics | 2016 Concordia Annual Summit
Concordia
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2026
3 mo on HNC++Now 2018: Matt Godbolt “What Else Has My Compiler Done For Me Lately?”
CppNow
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2020
3 mo on HNDan Abramov: Beyond React 16 | JSConf Iceland
JSConf
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2022
3 mo on HNGoogle Developers Day US - Theorizing from Data
GoogleDeveloperDay
Recommended 3× on HN · 2007–2009
3 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Chandler Carruth "Tuning C++: Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!"
CppCon
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2020
3 mo on HNProcedural Programming: It Never Went Away — Kevlin Henney | Build Stuff
Build Stuff - #1 Software Dev Conf
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2021
3 mo on HNDaniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot
TED
Recommended 3× on HN · 2013–2025
3 mo on HNSolid Ground // Saša Jurić
EMPEX Conference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNC++ Seasoning
aghuttun
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2022
3 mo on HNBlueHat Seattle 2019 || Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story
Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNThe User is Drunk
squareweave
Recommended 4× on HN · 2014–2021
3 mo on HNDEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow
DEFCONConference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNNVScene 2015 Session: How to Create Content with Signed Distance Functions (Johann Korndörfer)
NVScene
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNWhat nobody tells you about documentation
PyCon AU
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNMoxie Marlinspike, Next Generation Threats 2014
Techworld Sverige
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2021
3 mo on HN#Gamelab2018 - Jon Blow's Design decisions on creating Jai a new language for game programmers
Gamelab Conference
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNLinux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016
GitHub
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2023
3 mo on HNCRDTs: The Hard Parts
Martin Kleppmann
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2024
3 mo on HNLet’s go whaling: Tricks for monetising mobile game players with free-to-play
PocketGamerbiz
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2026