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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1. Introduction, Finite Automata, Regular Expressions

Lecture 1: Introduction to Information Theory

Lec 1 | MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2010

What if Current Foundations of Mathematics are Inconsistent? | Vladimir Voevodsky

CS480/680 Lecture 19: Attention and Transformer Networks

Stanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic

MIT Godel Escher Bach Lecture 1

The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club)

Jacob Appelbaum (Part 2/2) Digital Anti-Repression Workshop - April 26 2012

DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)

Zach Oakes - Making Games at Runtime with Clojure

Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin

Alexis King - “Effects for Less” @ ZuriHac 2020

BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier (David Kriesel)

37C3 - Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers

Nicholas Carlini - Black-hat LLMs | [un]prompted 2026

Brave New World vs Nineteen Eighty-Four featuring Adam Gopnik and Will Self

Data Oriented GUI in Rust by Raph Levien - Bay Area Rust Meetup

Keynote - Karen Sandler

Andy Bell – Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager

Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness)

Mikey Dickerson Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: "One Year After healthcare.gov..."

Bret Victor Inventing on Principle

DEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation

How I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code

Beware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser

John Carmack Facebook Connect 2021 Keynote

Sensor Fusion on Android Devices: A Revolution in Motion Processing

OCaml Workshop 2020 - State of the OCaml Platform 2020

Gopherfest 2017 | Upspin with Rob Pike

Hackfest 2015: Theo de Raadt presented "Pledge: A new security technology in openbsd"

F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"

Apple's World Wide Developers Conference 1997 with Steve Jobs

Kubernetes for SysAdmins | Kelsey Hightower at PuppetConf | Talk & Demo

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Tuesday @ 1130 ISA Shootout – a Comparison of RISC V, ARM, and x86 Chris Celio, UC Berkeley V2