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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Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?

Pitfall: A Classic Game Postmortem

Steve Jobs iPhone 2007 Presentation (HD)

The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer - Brian Troutwine

Glenn Vanderburg of LivingSocial on why software development is an engineering discipline

Stanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale

Douglas Crockford: The JSON Saga

Pete Hunt - The Secrets of React's Virtual DOM (FutureJS 2014)

Dmitry Vyukov — Go scheduler: Implementing language with lightweight concurrency

Assholes are Ruining Your Project. Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk).

Using JSLint For Evil

Video from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos

Zero to $10 Million with React Native + Next.js - Fernando Rojo - (Next.js Conf 2021)

What is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal | TEDxRuppin

Stuart Sierra - Components Just Enough Structure

Munk Debate on Artificial Intelligence | Bengio & Tegmark vs. Mitchell & LeCun

"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge

Andrew Ng: Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity

Yehuda Katz - Why Rails is Hard (Railsberry 2012)

FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix serving at 800Gb/s - Drew Gallatin - EuroBSDcon 2022

Kilim: Fast, lightweight, cheap message passing in Java.

CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part I"

Behind the scenes of iOS and Mac Security

NSA operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report - FOSDEM 2014

Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe

The Truth about Rust/WebAssembly Performance

Sebastian Markbage: Minimal API Surface Area | JSConf EU 2014

Psp collections: views and more by Paul Phillips

A Possible Future of Software Development

Introducing SILE: A New Typesetting System

"Eve" by Chris Granger

"Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" by Martin Kleppmann

Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers

What Happens When Maths Goes Wrong? - with Matt Parker

Dtrace Review

Quantum Expert Insight: Peter Shor