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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Sydney Golang Meetup - Rob Pike - Go 2 Draft Specifications

Visualizing Data Using t-SNE

Antifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Talks at Google

Escape from the Heap: Low-Level Programming in Common Lisp

The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2017

Pacific Northwest Scala 2013 We're Doing It All Wrong by Paul Phillips

MIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon (1 of 10)

IRDC US 2015 - Brian Bucklew, Data-Driven Engines of Qud and Sproggiwood

OpenFlow @ Google - Urs Hoelzle, Google

GopherCon 2014 Opening Keynote by Rob Pike

DEFCON 19: Introduction to Tamper Evident Devices

F8 2015 - Big Code: Developer Infrastructure at Facebook's Scale

Type-Driven Development in Idris — Edwin Brady

Types are like the Weather, Type Systems are like Weathermen - Matthias Felleisen

APL at Julia's Speed | Shashi Gowda | JuliaCon 2016

CppCon 2017: Kate Gregory “10 Core Guidelines You Need to Start Using Now”

Killing the Walk Monster

Alen Ladavac - Taking CI and automated testing seriously - WebCamp Zagreb 2018

Imaging at a trillion frames per second | Ramesh Raskar

The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Pranav Mistry

Modernizing Compiler Design for Carbon Toolchain - Chandler Carruth - CppNow 2023

DEFCON 21 - DNS May Be Hazardous to Your Health - Robert Stucke

Crafting A Tiny Open World: A Short Hike Postmortem

Python at Massive Scale - Stephen Simmons, Neil Slinger

SQLite: Protégé of PostgreSQL

Parsing with Derivatives

The History of Unix, Rob Pike

A History of The ARM Microprocessor | Dave Jaggar | Talks at Google

The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away

AWS re:Invent 2020: Working backwards: Amazon’s approach to innovation

The State of Kernel Self Protection Project by Kees Cook, Google

So You Think You Know Git - FOSDEM 2024

How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains | Mary Lou Jepsen

H3: Tiling the Earth with Hexagons

XDC 2020 - Day 1 - September 16, 2020

Clojure is Not Afraid of the GPU - Dragan Djuric