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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Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes

Louis CK honors George Carlin

RustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin

Bringing the Unix Philosophy to Big Data by Bryan Cantrill: FutureStack13

2023 LLVM Dev Mtg - Mojo 🔥: A system programming language for heterogenous computing

Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill, Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law

Why Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022

Rick Reed - WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users

illumos day 2014: The Dream is Alive! Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 high definition.flv

RimWorld: Contrarian, Ridiculous, and Impossible Game Design Methods

The Origins of Linux—Linus Torvalds

CppCon 2014: Jeff Preshing "How Ubisoft Develops Games for Multicore - Before and After C++11"

How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

How We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away

Here's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS

Shawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland

Philip Wadler - Propositions as Types (Lambda Days 2016)

Dynamic Languages Wizards Series - Panel on Language Design

Black Hat 2013 - OPSEC Failures of Spies

"How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010)

How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million

Barliman: trying the halting problem backwards, blindfolded - William Byrd, Greg Rosenblatt

Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box

Reinventing Organizations

Oculus Connect Keynote: John Carmack

Edward Kmett - Type Classes vs. the World

Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way

DEF CON 24 - Chris Rock - How to Overthrow a Government

Keynote. Professor Steven G. Johnson | JuliaCon 2019

We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech

Here I Stand, at Age 80

Nathaniel J. Smith - Trio: Async concurrency for mere mortals - PyCon 2018

Makepad: Designing modern UIs with Rust - Rik Arends - RustNL 2023

HC2023-K2: Hardware for Deep Learning

re:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media