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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What VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years (Steam Dev Days 2014)

Scalability at YouTube

[JSConfUS 2013] Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke: JS Apps at Facebook

Thesis: Partial State in Dataflow-Based Materialized Views

Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series

Velocity 2011: Artur Bergman, "Artur on SSD's"

Elon Musk on Cameras vs LiDAR for Self Driving and Autonomous Cars

Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust?

2023 Investor Day | Tesla

Category Theory, The essence of interface-based design - Erik Meijer

Larry Wall Speaks at Google

Technical leadership and glue work - Tanya Reilly | #LeadDevNewYork

DEF CON 23 - Marc Rogers and Kevin Mahaffey - How to Hack a Tesla Model S

DEF CON 17 - Deviant Ollam - Packing and the Friendly Skies

Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)

dotScale 2015 - John Graham-Cumming - I got 10 trillion problems, but logging ain't one

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

rand() Considered Harmful

Greg Young — A Decade of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing

The Great Debate @ARITH23: John Gustafson and William Kahan

Founders@Google Presents: The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange

Game Development with SDL 2.0 (Steam Dev Days 2014)

Jordan Hubbard - FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years

The past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)

Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 (see description for better quality version)

GoingNative 2012 - Day 2 - Clang

Learning from StackOverflow.com

SymbolicsTalk28June2012

Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit - Talk at SF Tech Poetics 01/18/18

Andy Keep - Writing a Nanopass Compiler

Tudor Gîrba - Moldable development

CppCon 2018: Hana Dusíková “Compile Time Regular Expressions”

AWS re:Invent 2014 | (SPOT302) Under the Covers of AWS: Its Core Distributed Systems

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