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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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2 mo on HNDesign Microservice Architectures the Right Way
InfoQ
Recommended 2× on HN · 2019–2021
2 mo on HNDEF CON 24 - Chris Rock - How to Overthrow a Government
DEFCONConference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNKeynote. Professor Steven G. Johnson | JuliaCon 2019
The Julia Programming Language
Recommended 2× on HN · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNWe Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech
Brandon Sanderson
Recommended 3× on HN · 2026–2026
2 mo on HNHere I Stand, at Age 80
TheTedNelson
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNNathaniel J. Smith - Trio: Async concurrency for mere mortals - PyCon 2018
PyCon 2018
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNMakepad: Designing modern UIs with Rust - Rik Arends - RustNL 2023
RustNL
Recommended 2× on HN · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNHC2023-K2: Hardware for Deep Learning
hotchipsvideos
Recommended 2× on HN · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNre:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media
re:publica
Recommended 2× on HN · 2012–2022
2 mo on HNPragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?
Next Day Video
Recommended 2× on HN · 2015–2019
2 mo on HNPitfall: A Classic Game Postmortem
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2024
2 mo on HNSteve Jobs iPhone 2007 Presentation (HD)
Jonathan
Recommended 2× on HN · 2013–2023
2 mo on HNThe Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer - Brian Troutwine
Erlang Solutions
Recommended 2× on HN · 2015–2019
2 mo on HNGlenn Vanderburg of LivingSocial on why software development is an engineering discipline
O'Reilly
Recommended 2× on HN · 2015–2018
2 mo on HNEffective ML
Jane Street
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2021
2 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape
Stanford Online
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2021
2 mo on HNSacha Arnoud, Director of Engineering, Waymo - MIT Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNLecture 1 | Convex Optimization I (Stanford)
Stanford
Recommended 2× on HN · 2011–2022
2 mo on HNComputer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language design
University of Nottingham
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2022
2 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions
Bite-sized Philosophy
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNObject-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example
Brian Will
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale
Stanford Online
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2022
2 mo on HNDouglas Crockford: The JSON Saga
YUI Library
Recommended 2× on HN · 2012–2025
2 mo on HNPete Hunt - The Secrets of React's Virtual DOM (FutureJS 2014)
Codegram
Recommended 2× on HN · 2015–2023
2 mo on HNDmitry Vyukov — Go scheduler: Implementing language with lightweight concurrency
Hydra
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNAssholes are Ruining Your Project. Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk).
Tom Raftery
Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2023
2 mo on HNUsing JSLint For Evil
ryantravistate
Recommended 2× on HN · 2013–2023
2 mo on HNVideo from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos
07272009july
Recommended 2× on HN · 2011–2018
2 mo on HNZero to $10 Million with React Native + Next.js - Fernando Rojo - (Next.js Conf 2021)
Vercel
Recommended 2× on HN · 2022–2022
2 mo on HNWhat is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal | TEDxRuppin
TEDx Talks
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNStuart Sierra - Components Just Enough Structure
ClojureTV
Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2015
2 mo on HNMunk Debate on Artificial Intelligence | Bengio & Tegmark vs. Mitchell & LeCun
Policy-Relevant Science & Technology
Recommended 2× on HN · 2023–2023
2 mo on HN"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge
Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2017
2 mo on HNAndrew Ng: Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNYehuda Katz - Why Rails is Hard (Railsberry 2012)
applicake
Recommended 2× on HN · 2013–2014
2 mo on HNFreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix serving at 800Gb/s - Drew Gallatin - EuroBSDcon 2022
EuroBSDCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2022–2025