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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AI Ethics, Impossibility Theorems and Tradeoffs - Chris Stucchio | Crunch 2018

Sophie Wilson - The Future of Microprocessors

Tree-sitter: a new parsing system for programming tools - GitHub Universe 2017

Reading Silicon: How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits

Three Beautiful Quicksorts

DEFCON 19: Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation (w speaker)

GopherCon 2015: Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem - Rick Hudson

Chris Seaton @ VMSS16: JRuby+Truffle: Why it’s Important to Optimise the Tricky Parts

Web Development in Emacs, Common Lisp and Clojurescript - Emacs SG

David Kriesel: Lies, damned lies and scans

"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)

Duolingo -- the next chapter in human computation | Luis von Ahn | TEDxCMU 2011

[Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X

Container Hacks and Fun Images

2017 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: “Implementing Swift Generics ”

JuliaRobotics: Making robots walk with Julia | Robin Deits

React.js Conf 2015 - Beyond the DOM: How Netflix plans to enhance your television experience

Matrix 2.0 — How we're making Matrix go voom!

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0

Qubes OS: The Operating System That Can Protect You Even If You Get Hacked

Lisp at the Frontier of Computation, by Robert Smith at Rigetti Computing

BetrFS: A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System

Introducing Nx - José Valim | Lambda Days 2021

"Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022)

ZFS Native Encryption by Tom Caputi

"Datafun: a functional query language" by Michael Arntzenius

Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters - Jimmy Bogard

How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education | Sal Khan | TED

John Schulman - Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: Progress and Challenges

10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source

30c3 - Trevor Paglen - Six Landscapes - 131228 2300

CppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes”

Geo Carncross: How to program computers (kos)

Plenary: Performance Matters - Emery Berger - CppCon 2020

ElixirConf 2021 - Isaac Yonemoto - Zig (heart) Elixir

Perl 6 for Mere Mortals