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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The Original Skunk Works – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2017

"NTFS really isn't that bad" - Robert Collins (LCA 2020)

Computer Science - A Guide for the Perplexed • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018

The Unix Chainsaw - Gary Bernhardt

Simon Peyton Jones - Linear Haskell: practical linearity in a higher-order polymorphic language

Keynote: What is a Component (and Why)? - Luke Wagner, Distinguished Engineer, Fastly

“What is Success?” by Evan Czaplicki

What's a Memory Allocator Anyway? - Benjamin Feng

How Modern SQL Databases Come up with Algorithms that You Would Have Never Dreamed Of by Lukas Eder

Parsing JSON Really Quickly: Lessons Learned

Visualising software architecture with the C4 model - Simon Brown, Agile on the Beach 2019

CppCon 2018: Stoyan Nikolov “OOP Is Dead, Long Live Data-oriented Design”

DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)

Zach Oakes - Making Games at Runtime with Clojure

Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin

Alexis King - “Effects for Less” @ ZuriHac 2020

37C3 - Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers

Brave New World vs Nineteen Eighty-Four featuring Adam Gopnik and Will Self

Keynote - Karen Sandler

Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness)

Mikey Dickerson Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: "One Year After healthcare.gov..."

Bret Victor Inventing on Principle

DEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation

How I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code

Beware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser

Sensor Fusion on Android Devices: A Revolution in Motion Processing

F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"

Apple's World Wide Developers Conference 1997 with Steve Jobs

Software Engineering's Greatest Hits

Tuesday @ 1130 ISA Shootout – a Comparison of RISC V, ARM, and x86 Chris Celio, UC Berkeley V2

Rethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015

Chuck Moore's Fireside Chat 2011

Robert C Martin - Clean Architecture and Design

Clojure for Java Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey

DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles

"Uncle" Bob Martin