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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Clojure for Lisp Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey

James Gosling - Simula: a personal journey

Douglas Crockford: Monads and Gonads (YUIConf Evening Keynote)

2013 Keynote: Chandler Carruth: Optimizing the Emergent Structures of C++

Don Knuth - Constraint Based Composition

Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time & Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019

Change w/ Jim Keller

Caml Trading

Maciej Ceglowski - The Website Obesity Crisis [Web Directions 2015 Keynote]

Rendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching

David Patterson - A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: History, Challenges and Opportunities

The Memory Sinkhole - Unleashing An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege Escalation

Anathem | Neal Stephenson | Talks at Google

BadUSB - On Accessories that Turn Evil by Karsten Nohl + Jakob Lell

The Principles of Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob Martin

Will Wright GDC 2005 Spore (The Future of Content) Remastered

VCF East: Xerox Star vs. Apple Lisa

The Go Programming Language

Google I/O 2012 - Meet the Go Team

Ken Stanley: Discovery Without Objectives

October CincyRb - Jim Weirich on Decoupling from Rails

Multithreading the Entire Destiny Engine

Martin Kleppmann | Kafka Summit SF 2018 Keynote (Is Kafka a Database?)

CppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “High Performance Code 201: Hybrid Data Structures"

Steve Yegge, "What Would You Do With Your Own Google?" - OSCON Data 2011

Steve Jobs Introducing The iPhone At MacWorld 2007

Experiences Building Edge TPU with Chisel

Inventing the Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart | Talks at Google

Building the Software 2 0 Stack (Andrej Karpathy)

xkcd | Randall Munroe | Talks at Google

Condition Systems in an Exceptional Language - Chris Houser