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 Surprising History of Copyright and What It Means For...

The Power of Big Data and Psychographics | 2016 Concordia Annual Summit

C++Now 2018: Matt Godbolt “What Else Has My Compiler Done For Me Lately?”

Dan Abramov: Beyond React 16 | JSConf Iceland

Google Developers Day US - Theorizing from Data

CppCon 2015: Chandler Carruth "Tuning C++: Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!"

Procedural Programming: It Never Went Away — Kevlin Henney | Build Stuff

Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot

Solid Ground // Saša Jurić

C++ Seasoning

BlueHat Seattle 2019 || Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story

The User is Drunk

DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow

NVScene 2015 Session: How to Create Content with Signed Distance Functions (Johann Korndörfer)

What nobody tells you about documentation

Moxie Marlinspike, Next Generation Threats 2014

#Gamelab2018 - Jon Blow's Design decisions on creating Jai a new language for game programmers

Linux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016

CRDTs: The Hard Parts

Let’s go whaling: Tricks for monetising mobile game players with free-to-play

Saša Jurić - Parsing from first principles - WebCamp Zagreb 2019

Andrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014

Does APL Need a Type System? by Aaron W Hsu at #FnConf18

Modeling Data Concurrency w/ Asynchronous I/O in Zig - RedisConf 2020

Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation

John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture

Donald B. Gillies Lecture: Dr. Michael Stonebraker

Math Encounters -- Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling -- Colin Wright (Presentation)

Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton

Lecture 1: Probability and Counting | Statistics 110

Lecture 1 | Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning

Cosmos - Carl Sagan - 4th Dimension

Seymour Papert 1983

1. A strange determinant

Do we need Attention? - Linear RNNs and State Space Models (SSMs) for NLP

The "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch