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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Efficient Bayesian inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo -- Michael Betancourt (Part 1)

Hamming, "n-Dimensional Space" (April 14, 1995)

Lecture 7: Introduction to Galois Fields for the AES by Christof Paar

Peter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle Drake

Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules

Google Developers Day US - Python Design Patterns

Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019

CppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup “Writing Good C++14”

Defcon 21 - The Secret Life of SIM Cards

Origins of Go Concurrency style by Rob Pike

ClojureScript in the Age of TypeScript — David Nolen

CppCon 2017: Herb Sutter “Meta: Thoughts on generative C++”

"The Clean Code Talks -- Inheritance, Polymorphism, & Testing"

ASPLOS Keynote: The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-design by Dr. Chris Lattner

The Search for the Perfect Door - Deviant Ollam

miniKanren - Dan Friedman and William Byrd

Peter Rizun, Andrew Stone -- 1 GB Block Tests -- Scaling Bitcoin Stanford.

Defcon 20 - Dan Tentler - Drinking from the caffeine firehose we know as shodan

OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void"

Susan Crawford on Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right

CSS Grid Changes EVERYTHING - Amazing Presentation

Jared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)

Free software, free society: Richard Stallman at TEDxGeneva 2014

High Performance Web Sites and YSlow

Black Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies

DEFCON 20: Hacker + Airplanes = No Good Can Come Of This

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019

Bryan Cantrill on ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache [PWL SF] 10/2017

Making Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote

RAAIS 2017 - Simon Knowles, Co-Founder and CTO of Graphcore

The call to learn | Clifford Stoll

Emojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App

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