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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What's Bad About Julia | Jeff Bezanson | JuliaCon 2019

The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018

CppCon 2018:H. Wright “Large-Scale Changes at Google: Lessons Learned From 5 Yrs of Mass Migrations”

dotJS 2012 - Fat - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?

The Mental Game of Python - Raymond Hettinger [synced version]

EFI and Linux: the future is here, and it's awful - Matthew Garrett

"Agility & Robustness: Clojure spec" by Stuart Halloway

Recent Developments in Deep Learning

"A Little Taste of Dependent Types" by David Christiansen

CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “Declarative Control Flow"

Scaling the Linear Sync Engine

React Helsinki February 2020

Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley | TEDxMaastricht

CppCon 2019: Emery Berger “Mesh: Automatically Compacting Your C++ Application's Memory”

27c3 - Desktop on the Linux... (and BSD, of course) - Wolfgang Draxinger (+ Lennart Poettering)

Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability

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