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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"Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager" by Aaron Cummings

Making R run Fast - Jan Vitek

BSidesLV 2013 3 2 7 Sixteen Colors Archiving the Evolution of ANSI and ASCII Art Doug Moore Bren

"Building a Toolkit for Design" by Matthew Griffith

Jake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers - PyCon 2016.mp4

Classic Game Postmortem - Another World

How to Survive in Gamedev for Eleven Years Without a Hit

DEFCON 19: Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! (w speaker)

Bob Nystrom - Is There More to Game Architecture than ECS?

GopherCon 2016: The Design of the Go Assembler - Rob Pike

C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter - atomic Weapons 2 of 2

Animation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)

"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell

Diablo: Original Game Development

Put Your Name on Your Game, a Talk by Bennett Foddy and Zach Gage

Procedural World Generation of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 | Etienne Carrier | Houdini HIVE Utrecht

A Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click

Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018

Console Hacking 2016 (33c3)

#NoEstimates (Allen Holub)

Modern C and What We Can Learn From It - Luca Sas [ ACCU 2021 ]

Software Art Thou: Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering

Differential Synchronization

Ryan Dahl - History of Node.js

RustConf 2016 - A Modern Editor Built in Rust by Raph Levien

"Programming Should Eat Itself" by Nada Amin

Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions, and the Future of Corporations

Tesla Autonomy Day

Joe Armstrong & Jeremy Ruston - Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang | Code Mesh LDN 18

Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - The Ring 0 Facade Awakening the Processors Inner Demons

Erlang Factory SF 2016 Keynote Phoenix and Elm – Making the Web Functional

Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)

Shared memory parallelism in Julia | Kiran Pamnany | Cambridge Julia Meetup (May 2018)