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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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.

Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe

C++Now 2018: You Can Do Better than std::unordered_map: New Improvements to Hash Table Performance

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

The economics of open source by C J Silverio | JSConf EU 2019

Keynote: Flutter (Dart Developer Summit 2016)

ChatOps at GitHub - Jesse Newland

01 The History of Standard ML: Ideas, Principles, Culture

Bloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell,Matt Evans

"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)

Mountain West Ruby 2012 Capability vs. Suitability by Gary Bernhardt

Going Native 2012 Keynote Stroustrup

Beyond functional programming: a taste of Verse. Simon Peyton Jones & Tim Sweeney | Lambda Days 2023

SICP: o fim de uma era

Corporate Open Source Anti-patterns

Rust NYC: Jon Gjengset - Demystifying unsafe code

PDE: A different take on editing code

AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] A Serverless Journey: AWS Lambda Under the Hood (SRV409-R1)

DEF CON 26 CRYPTO AND PRIVACY VILLAGE - Scott Arciszewski - No Way JOSE! Designing Cryptography

The Forgotten Art of Structured Programming - Kevlin Henney [C++ on Sea 2019]

Raymond Hettinger - Dataclasses: The code generator to end all code generators - PyCon 2018