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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The new Windows subsystem for Linux architecture: a deep dive - BRK3068

A 10x faster TypeScript

Joel Spolsky at Startup School 2012

2021: Year of the Linux Gaming Desktop - Andrew Kelley

Rich Harris: Futuristic Web Development

Talk: Video Games and the Future of Education

Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence | John Searle | Talks at Google

Analyzing Programs with Z3

AWS re:Invent 2018: How AWS Minimizes the Blast Radius of Failures (ARC338)

Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker

Jonathan Diegelman - Modeling Spacecraft Separation Dynamics in Julia

Crockford on JavaScript - Section 8: Programming Style & Your Brain

See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Anthony Scopatz - xonsh - PyCon 2016

Keynote: The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War - John A. De Goes

Nicholas Zakas: Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture

The Stellar Consensus Protocol | David Mazières | Talks at Google

Antichamber: An Overnight Success, Seven Years In The Making

Google I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel

Modern SQL: A lot has changed since SQL-92 by Markus Winand

HandmadeCon 2016 - History of Software Texture Mapping in Games

CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Back to the Basics! Essentials of Modern C++ Style"

Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords

Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker

June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit: Raid-Z Expansion

GuiltyGearXrd's Art Style : The X Factor Between 2D and 3D

AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)

Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation on 1980 (Insanely Great)

'Fastware' - Andrei Alexandrescu [ ACCU 2016 ]

The Early Days of id Software

ONS 2015: Wednesday Keynote - Amin Vahdat

Autonomous Car - what goes into sensing for autonomous driving?

CppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Path Tracing Three Ways: A Study of C++ Style”

GCP NEXT 2016: Day 1 Keynote (Mar 23)

"Write a single library to handle all input devices, it'll be easy" they said...

Brandt Bucher – A JIT Compiler for CPython