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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RailsConf 2016 - Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella

DuckDB – The SQLite for Analytics (Mark Raasveldt, CWI)

Nordic.js 2014 • Douglas Crockford - The Better Parts

Building pi in a World of Slop — Mario Zechner

Classic Game Postmortem: Fallout

What is in a Lucene index? Adrien Grand, Software Engineer, Elasticsearch

The Mental Game of Python - Raymond Hettinger

John Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013

code::dive conference 2014 - Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care

CppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “C++ atomics, from basic to advanced. What do they really do?”

25c3: The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk

Stanford Seminar - Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to Metal

Servo Architecture: Safety and Performance

GDC 2010: Sid Meier Keynote - "Everything You Know is Wrong"

State of GPT | BRK216HFS

Lambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram

Lenses, Folds, and Traversals

A real person, a lot like you

Run containers on bare metal already!

Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012

Google I/O 2013 - High Performance Audio

Saving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024

A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick

How to Speed up a Python Program 114,000 times.

35C3 - The Ghost in the Machine

MountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk

DEF CON 22 - Adrian Crenshaw- Dropping Docs on Darknets: How People Got Caught

Bret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations

27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)

[CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla

Charlie Marsh: uv: An Extremely Fast Python Package Manager

ElixirConf 2023 - José Valim - The foundations of the Elixir type system

A New Way to look at Networking

ClojureScript for Skeptics - Derek Slager

Bruce Hauman - Developing ClojureScript With Figwheel

John Carmack Tech Talk with UMKC-SCE