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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DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population

Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)

Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams

Ed Catmull, Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small

"Performance Matters" by Emery Berger

Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp

[LIVE] How to Achieve Proper Grounding - Rick Hartley - Expert Live Training (US)

Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful

The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)

RailsConf 2016 - Turbolinks 5: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Native! by Sam Stephenson

Growing a Language, by Guy Steele

USENIX Security '18-Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google

Defcon 18 Changing threats to privacy Moxie Marlinspike Part

"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"

The Thirty Million Line Problem

CppCon 2017: Matt Kulukundis “Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-friendly Hash Table, Step by Step”

Lecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986

The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)

Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years

Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey

Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts

AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401)

The Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013)

Ruby Midwest 2011 - Keynote: Architecture the Lost Years by Robert Martin

RustConf 2018 - Closing Keynote - Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine West

Erlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp

A Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry

Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)

LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

Jonathan Blow - How to program independent games - CSUA Speech

Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools