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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Bloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell,Matt Evans

"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)

Mountain West Ruby 2012 Capability vs. Suitability by Gary Bernhardt

SICP: o fim de uma era

Corporate Open Source Anti-patterns

Rust NYC: Jon Gjengset - Demystifying unsafe code

PDE: A different take on editing code

DEF CON 26 CRYPTO AND PRIVACY VILLAGE - Scott Arciszewski - No Way JOSE! Designing Cryptography

The Forgotten Art of Structured Programming - Kevlin Henney [C++ on Sea 2019]

Raymond Hettinger - Dataclasses: The code generator to end all code generators - PyCon 2018

The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018

CppCon 2018:H. Wright “Large-Scale Changes at Google: Lessons Learned From 5 Yrs of Mass Migrations”

dotJS 2012 - Fat - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?

The Mental Game of Python - Raymond Hettinger [synced version]

"A Little Taste of Dependent Types" by David Christiansen

CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “Declarative Control Flow"

Scaling the Linear Sync Engine

Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley | TEDxMaastricht

CppCon 2019: Emery Berger “Mesh: Automatically Compacting Your C++ Application's Memory”

AI Ethics, Impossibility Theorems and Tradeoffs - Chris Stucchio | Crunch 2018

Tree-sitter: a new parsing system for programming tools - GitHub Universe 2017

Reading Silicon: How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits

Three Beautiful Quicksorts

DEFCON 19: Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation (w speaker)

Web Development in Emacs, Common Lisp and Clojurescript - Emacs SG

David Kriesel: Lies, damned lies and scans

"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)

[Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X

2017 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: “Implementing Swift Generics ”

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0

BetrFS: A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System

"Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022)

"Datafun: a functional query language" by Michael Arntzenius

Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters - Jimmy Bogard

30c3 - Trevor Paglen - Six Landscapes - 131228 2300

CppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes”