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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Building Brains to Understand the World's Data

DEF CON 23 - Robinson and Mitchell - Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline

CANDO: A Compiled Programming Language for Computer-Aided Nanomaterial Design and Optimization

[#36] Zig Roadmap 2024 - Andrew Kelley

Ochko123 - How the Feds Caught Russian Mega-Carder Roman Seleznev

Andrew Price - Improving Blender's UI

Alexander Nix: From Mad Men to Math Men | OMR Festival 2017 - Hamburg, Germany | #OMR17

Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, by Ori Bernstein

AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg

AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns (DAT403-R1)

Charles Babbage and Difference Enginge No. 2 | Doron Swade | Talks at Google

Lucas Cavalcanti & Edward Wible - Exploring four hidden superpowers of Datomic

Servo: Building a Parallel Browser

Glenn Vanderburg - Cló: The Algorithms of TeX in Clojure

Event Sourcing • Greg Young • GOTO 2014

Jim Keller - Moore's Law in the age of AI Chips

Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris

Breaking Down Programming Paradigms: APL's Surprising Learning Curve // Aaron Hsu // Dyalog '17

Keynote - Preventing, Finding, and Fixing Bugs On a Time Budget | Raymond Hettinger @ PyBay2018

Zig Roadmap 2023 - Andrew Kelley

Black Hat 2013 - Exploiting Network Surveillance Cameras Like a Hollywood Hacker

Fastest browser engine by far at 500 FPS! Servo Webrender - CSS on the GPU part 1: Rust

35C3 - Modchips of the State

Chris Crawford Dragon Speech "I Had a Dream"

GoRuCo 2012 Hexagonal Rails by Matt Wynne

Bringing SIMD to the Web via Dart

(ninth RacketCon): Andrew Blinn – Fructure: A Structured Editing Engine in Racket

Paul Graham Keynote Speech At OPT412

Kirk McKusick - A Narrative History of BSD

Defcon 18 - Practical Cellphone Spying - Chris Paget - Part.mov

Reboot Develop 2017 - Jonathan Blow, Thekla Inc. / Making Game Programming Less Terrible

[FOSSi Dial-Up] Tim Ansell - Skywater PDK: Fully open source manufacturable PDK for a 130nm process

Erik Jansson - GPU driven Rendering with Mesh Shaders in Alan Wake 2

Google I/O 2011: Kick-Ass Game Programming with Google Web Toolkit

Software is in Decline - Jonathan Blow

Cryptocurrency Explained: Money as a System-of-Control