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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Using JSLint For Evil

Video from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos

Stuart Sierra - Components Just Enough Structure

Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe

A Possible Future of Software Development

"Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" by Martin Kleppmann

Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers

What Happens When Maths Goes Wrong? - with Matt Parker

Dtrace Review

Quantum Expert Insight: Peter Shor

Physics in Clojure - Colin Smith

Cory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way - PyCon 2016

Florian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS

The Implementation of Rewind in Braid

MIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon

Unconditional Code • Michael Feathers • GOTO 2018

Agile Project Management with Kanban | Eric Brechner | Talks at Google

Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy

27c3: Console Hacking 2010 (en)

36C3 - The ecosystem is moving

Ryan Dahl: Node JS

Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas

Don't Make Me Click

My personal fight against the modern laptop

dotScale 2014 - Robert Kennedy - Life in the Trenches of healthcare.gov

"Type-Driven Program Synthesis" by Nadia Polikarpova

Ropecon 2019: Essi Santala, Sampo Juustila: Odysseus – Where Code Meets Light and Sound

Macworld 1997: The return of Steve Jobs

The Maximal Graph - Wilker Silva

Developing the best free photo editor - Ivan KUCKIR - Web2day 2019

Abseil's Open Source Hashtables: 2 Years In - Matt Kulukundis - CppCon 2019

Dennis Gustafsson – Parallelizing the physics solver – BSC 2025

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.

C++Now 2018: You Can Do Better than std::unordered_map: New Improvements to Hash Table Performance

01 The History of Standard ML: Ideas, Principles, Culture