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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.
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2 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)
DEFCONConference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNZach Oakes - Making Games at Runtime with Clojure
ClojureTV
Recommended 2× on HN · 2015–2017
2 mo on HNFour Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin
NDC Conferences
Recommended 2× on HN · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNAlexis King - “Effects for Less” @ ZuriHac 2020
Zürich Friends of Haskell
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2020
2 mo on HNBahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier (David Kriesel)
media.ccc.de
Recommended 2× on HN · 2022–2026
2 mo on HN37C3 - Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers
media.ccc.de
Recommended 2× on HN · 2024–2024
2 mo on HNNicholas Carlini - Black-hat LLMs | [un]prompted 2026
unprompted
Recommended 9× on HN · 2026–2026
2 mo on HNBrave New World vs Nineteen Eighty-Four featuring Adam Gopnik and Will Self
Intelligence Squared
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2022
2 mo on HNData Oriented GUI in Rust by Raph Levien - Bay Area Rust Meetup
Rust Programming Language
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2020
2 mo on HNKeynote - Karen Sandler
Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
Recommended 2× on HN · 2012–2016
2 mo on HNAndy Bell – Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager
Hey! Presents
Recommended 2× on HN · 2023–2023
2 mo on HNLawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness)
DeviantOllam
Recommended 2× on HN · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNMikey Dickerson Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: "One Year After healthcare.gov..."
O'Reilly
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2020
2 mo on HNBret Victor Inventing on Principle
Luna Programming Language Tutorials
Recommended 3× on HN · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNDEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation
DEFCONConference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNHow I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code
ExileLord
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNBeware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser
TED
Recommended 2× on HN · 2012–2025
2 mo on HNJohn Carmack Facebook Connect 2021 Keynote
UploadVR
Recommended 4× on HN · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNSensor Fusion on Android Devices: A Revolution in Motion Processing
Google TechTalks
Recommended 2× on HN · 2012–2026
2 mo on HNOCaml Workshop 2020 - State of the OCaml Platform 2020
OCamlWorkshops
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2021
2 mo on HNGopherfest 2017 | Upspin with Rob Pike
The Go Programming Language
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNHackfest 2015: Theo de Raadt presented "Pledge: A new security technology in openbsd"
Hackfest Communication
Recommended 2× on HN · 2015–2022
2 mo on HNF2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"
F2C2012
Recommended 2× on HN · 2013–2023
2 mo on HNApple's World Wide Developers Conference 1997 with Steve Jobs
superapple4ever
Recommended 2× on HN · 2012–2022
2 mo on HNKubernetes for SysAdmins | Kelsey Hightower at PuppetConf | Talk & Demo
Perforce Puppet
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2022
2 mo on HNSoftware Engineering's Greatest Hits
Greg Wilson
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNTuesday @ 1130 ISA Shootout – a Comparison of RISC V, ARM, and x86 Chris Celio, UC Berkeley V2
RISC-V International
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2011: Chrome Dev Tools Reloaded
Google for Developers
Recommended 2× on HN · 2011–2012
2 mo on HNRethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015
Infosys Foundation USA
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNChuck Moore's Fireside Chat 2011
GreenArraysInc
Recommended 2× on HN · 2013–2017
2 mo on HNRobert C Martin - Clean Architecture and Design
gnbitcom
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2024
2 mo on HNTesla AI Day 2022
Tesla
Recommended 2× on HN · 2022–2026
2 mo on HNClojure for Java Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV
Recommended 2× on HN · 2013–2022
2 mo on HNEric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Fortune Debate, 2012
kykeon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNDEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles
DEFCONConference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2025
2 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin
Program on Entrepreneurship
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2024