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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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1 mo on HNBrian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
Lex Fridman
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNThe Cantrill Strikes Back | BSD Now 117
Jupiter Broadcasting
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2018
1 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1236 - Jack Dorsey
PowerfulJRE
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2019
1 mo on HNNo Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla
No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups
Recommended 1× on HN · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNJohn Carmack: Best programming setup and IDE | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
Lex Clips
Recommended 1× on HN · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNBefore Flutter | Rubber Duck Engineering | Episode #100
RubberDuckEng
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2026