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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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

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