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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Physics in Clojure - Colin Smith

Cory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way - PyCon 2016

Florian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS

BlueHat IL 2023 - David Weston - Default Security

The Implementation of Rewind in Braid

SpaceX Seattle 2015

MIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon

Unconditional Code • Michael Feathers • GOTO 2018

Agile Project Management with Kanban | Eric Brechner | Talks at Google

Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy

"Code is the Easy Part" by Evan Czaplicki

27c3: Console Hacking 2010 (en)

36C3 - The ecosystem is moving

Elm Europe 2017 - Richard Feldman - Scaling Elm Apps

Ryan Dahl: Node JS

The benefits of deploying IPv6 only

Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas

Don't Make Me Click

"Make the Back-End Team Jealous: Elm in Production" by Richard Feldman

XFS: Recent and Future Adventures in Filesystem Scalability - Dave Chinner

My personal fight against the modern laptop

dotScale 2014 - Robert Kennedy - Life in the Trenches of healthcare.gov

Debugging The Web (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)

"Type-Driven Program Synthesis" by Nadia Polikarpova

Ropecon 2019: Essi Santala, Sampo Juustila: Odysseus – Where Code Meets Light and Sound

Macworld 1997: The return of Steve Jobs

The Maximal Graph - Wilker Silva

Developing the best free photo editor - Ivan KUCKIR - Web2day 2019

Jonathan Blow - Jai Demo and Design Explanation (KEYNOTE) - Updated

AWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)

Abseil's Open Source Hashtables: 2 Years In - Matt Kulukundis - CppCon 2019

Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthington

Dennis Gustafsson – Parallelizing the physics solver – BSC 2025

Peter Norvig at Startup School 08

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.