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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Gopherfest 2015 | Go Proverbs with Rob Pike

Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide

GOD MODE UNLOCKED - Hardware Backdoors in x86 CPUs

The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet OOPSLA 97 Keynote (VPRI 0719)

36C3 - Uncover, Understand, Own - Regaining Control Over Your AMD CPU

115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go by Dan Tentler

Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction

React.js Conf 2016 - Lightning Talks - Elie Rotenberg

Beyond Passwords: Secure Authentication with Mozilla Persona

ReactiveConf 2017 - Tom Dale: Secrets of the Glimmer VM

28c3: Print Me If You Dare

Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014

Joanna Rutkowska: Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops

Your web app but good: Aaron Boodman (Local-First Conf)

Talk - Eben Moglen - Free and Open Software: Paradigm for a New Intellectual Commons

Human Computation

Morten Rand-Hendriksen: CSS Grid Changes Everything (About Web Layouts)

Succinct Data Structures

Eben Moglen: How I discovered Free Software and met RMS

Seymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL)

The mathematics of love | Hannah Fry

Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart

Is TDD dead?

Tobias Engel: SS7: Locate. Track. Manipulate.

H2K2 (2002): "The Conscience of a Hacker"

Ada, Past Present and Future

Robert Moss: Julia and the Next Generation Airborne Collision Avoidance System

A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Marshall Kirk McKusick

Carbon Language Successor Strategy: From C++ Interop to Memory Safety - Chandler Carruth - CppNow 23

Speakeasy JS - Redbean: Actually Portable Executable Web Server (Justine Tunney)

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10

Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh

Friday evening lightning talks

OffensiveCon19 - Alex Ionescu - Keynote - Reversing Without Reversing

NVIDIA — Securing the Future of Safety and Security of Embedded Software (Captioned)

Building Software at Google Scale Tech Talk