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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.
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2 mo on HNHandmadeCon 2016 - History of Software Texture Mapping in Games
Molly Rocket
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNCppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Back to the Basics! Essentials of Modern C++ Style"
CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2021
2 mo on HNSingle Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords
Tom Scott
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNIs the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker
TED
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2022
2 mo on HNJune 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit: Raid-Z Expansion
FreeBSD
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2023
2 mo on HNGuiltyGearXrd's Art Style : The X Factor Between 2D and 3D
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 2× on HN · 2019–2025
2 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)
Amazon Web Services
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2022
2 mo on HNNeWS: A Networked and Extensible Window System, lecture by James Gosling
Computer History Museum
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018
MIT OpenCourseWare
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNLecture 1 | Programming Methodology (Stanford)
Stanford
Recommended 2× on HN · 2009–2026
2 mo on HNSeminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246)
Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNTrends in Deep Learning Hardware: Bill Dally (NVIDIA)
Paul G. Allen School
Recommended 3× on HN · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNJaron Lanier – Who is Civilization for? (+ Q&A with Ulrich Kelber) Willy Brandt Lecture 2018
Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2024
2 mo on HNGeoffrey Hinton talk "What is wrong with convolutional neural nets ?"
trwappers
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2018
2 mo on HNRust at speed — building a fast concurrent database
Jon Gjengset
Recommended 2× on HN · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNClutching at Random Straws, Matt Parker | LMS Popular Lectures 2010
London Mathematical Society
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNCapt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)
National Security Agency
Recommended 2× on HN · 2024–2026
2 mo on HNLecture 1 | Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
Stanford University School of Engineering
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2025
2 mo on HNCS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005
CS50
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2025
1 mo on HNSteve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation on 1980 (Insanely Great)
naji1234
Recommended 1× on HN · 2012–2026
1 mo on HN'Fastware' - Andrei Alexandrescu [ ACCU 2016 ]
ACCU Conference
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2021
1 mo on HNThe Early Days of id Software
GDC Festival of Gaming
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2023
1 mo on HNONS 2015: Wednesday Keynote - Amin Vahdat
Open Networking Summit
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2017
1 mo on HNAutonomous Car - what goes into sensing for autonomous driving?
Mobileye
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2016
1 mo on HNCppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Path Tracing Three Ways: A Study of C++ Style”
CppCon
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2025
1 mo on HNGCP NEXT 2016: Day 1 Keynote (Mar 23)
Google Cloud Tech
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2019
1 mo on HN"Write a single library to handle all input devices, it'll be easy" they said...
linux.conf.au
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNBrandt Bucher – A JIT Compiler for CPython
encukou
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2024
1 mo on HNGopherfest 2015 | Go Proverbs with Rob Pike
The Go Programming Language
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2026
1 mo on HNLeaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide
Bryan Cantrill
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNGOD MODE UNLOCKED - Hardware Backdoors in x86 CPUs
Black Hat
Recommended 1× on HN · 2018–2021
1 mo on HNThe Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet OOPSLA 97 Keynote (VPRI 0719)
Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2026
1 mo on HN36C3 - Uncover, Understand, Own - Regaining Control Over Your AMD CPU
media.ccc.de
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2021
1 mo on HN115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go by Dan Tentler
Devoxx
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2025
1 mo on HNApple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction
JoshuaG
Recommended 1× on HN · 2010–2022
1 mo on HNReact.js Conf 2016 - Lightning Talks - Elie Rotenberg
Meta Developers
Recommended 1× on HN · 2016–2019