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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"Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza" by Martin Kleppmann

"How NOT to Measure Latency" by Gil Tene

Ruby Conf 12 - Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt

CppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”

Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT

Brian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad

USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

Using Python to Code by Voice

Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming

"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)

Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python

Ideas about a new programming language for games.

How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)

Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me

Spec-ulation Keynote - Rich Hickey

Modern Dictionaries by Raymond Hettinger

CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"

The Only Unbreakable Law

Refterm Lecture Part 1 - Philosophies of Optimization

Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra

28c3: The Science of Insecurity

How I program C

"Propositions as Types" by Philip Wadler

The Language of the System - Rich Hickey

Agile is Dead • Pragmatic Dave Thomas • GOTO 2015

Google I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns

Stop Writing Classes

Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)

Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices -- JSConf EU

Lecture 6: Version Control (git) (2020)

Category Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy

DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse

Bay Area Vision Meeting: Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning

Invited Talk - Guy Steele