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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Seymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL)

The mathematics of love | Hannah Fry

Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart

Is TDD dead?

H2K2 (2002): "The Conscience of a Hacker"

A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Marshall Kirk McKusick

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10

Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh

OffensiveCon19 - Alex Ionescu - Keynote - Reversing Without Reversing

NVIDIA — Securing the Future of Safety and Security of Embedded Software (Captioned)

8LU - Are we *really* engineers? by Hillel Wayne

DCEmu Reviews - 27C3 - Chaos Communication Congress 2010 - fail0verflow - FULL VIDEO

Ochko123 - How the Feds Caught Russian Mega-Carder Roman Seleznev

Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, by Ori Bernstein

AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns (DAT403-R1)

Charles Babbage and Difference Enginge No. 2 | Doron Swade | Talks at Google

Glenn Vanderburg - Cló: The Algorithms of TeX in Clojure

Event Sourcing • Greg Young • GOTO 2014

Jim Keller - Moore's Law in the age of AI Chips

Breaking Down Programming Paradigms: APL's Surprising Learning Curve // Aaron Hsu // Dyalog '17

Keynote - Preventing, Finding, and Fixing Bugs On a Time Budget | Raymond Hettinger @ PyBay2018

Chris Crawford Dragon Speech "I Had a Dream"

(ninth RacketCon): Andrew Blinn – Fructure: A Structured Editing Engine in Racket

Kirk McKusick - A Narrative History of BSD

Reboot Develop 2017 - Jonathan Blow, Thekla Inc. / Making Game Programming Less Terrible

Erik Jansson - GPU driven Rendering with Mesh Shaders in Alan Wake 2

Software is in Decline - Jonathan Blow

Cryptocurrency Explained: Money as a System-of-Control

[JSConfUS 2013] Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke: JS Apps at Facebook

Thesis: Partial State in Dataflow-Based Materialized Views

Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series

Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust?

Category Theory, The essence of interface-based design - Erik Meijer

Technical leadership and glue work - Tanya Reilly | #LeadDevNewYork

Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)

rand() Considered Harmful

8LU - Are we really engineers? by Hillel Wayne