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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Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes

Louis CK honors George Carlin

RustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin

Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill, Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law

Why Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 high definition.flv

RimWorld: Contrarian, Ridiculous, and Impossible Game Design Methods

The Origins of Linux—Linus Torvalds

CppCon 2014: Jeff Preshing "How Ubisoft Develops Games for Multicore - Before and After C++11"

How We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away

Here's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS

Shawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland

Philip Wadler - Propositions as Types (Lambda Days 2016)

Dynamic Languages Wizards Series - Panel on Language Design

Black Hat 2013 - OPSEC Failures of Spies

"How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010)

How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million

Barliman: trying the halting problem backwards, blindfolded - William Byrd, Greg Rosenblatt

Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box

Reinventing Organizations

Edward Kmett - Type Classes vs. the World

Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way

DEF CON 24 - Chris Rock - How to Overthrow a Government

Keynote. Professor Steven G. Johnson | JuliaCon 2019

Here I Stand, at Age 80

Nathaniel J. Smith - Trio: Async concurrency for mere mortals - PyCon 2018

Makepad: Designing modern UIs with Rust - Rik Arends - RustNL 2023

re:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media

Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?

Pitfall: A Classic Game Postmortem

Steve Jobs iPhone 2007 Presentation (HD)

The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer - Brian Troutwine

Glenn Vanderburg of LivingSocial on why software development is an engineering discipline

Douglas Crockford: The JSON Saga

Dmitry Vyukov — Go scheduler: Implementing language with lightweight concurrency

Assholes are Ruining Your Project. Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk).