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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Clojure for Lisp Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey

James Gosling - Simula: a personal journey

Peter Munch-Ellingsen: Why I wrote my own keyboard firmware in Nim (NimConf 2021)

Douglas Crockford: Monads and Gonads (YUIConf Evening Keynote)

Velocity 2011: Jon Jenkins, "Velocity Culture"

AWS re:Invent 2018: Powering Next-Gen EC2 Instances: Deep Dive into the Nitro System (CMP303-R1)

NYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the Internet

2013 Keynote: Chandler Carruth: Optimizing the Emergent Structures of C++

Don Knuth - Constraint Based Composition

dotJS 2012 - Brian Leroux - WTFJS

Industrial Strength High Performance RISC V Processors For Energy Efficient Computing

DeepSec 2010: All your baseband are belong to us by Ralf Philipp Weinmann

Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time & Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019

React.js Conf 2015 - The complementarity of React and Web Components

PdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves

Tesla Virtual Power Plant

An Introduction to SQLite

Change w/ Jim Keller

Caml Trading

Maciej Ceglowski - The Website Obesity Crisis [Web Directions 2015 Keynote]

Rendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching

David Patterson - A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: History, Challenges and Opportunities

Velocity 2010: James Hamilton, "Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation"

Compiling and Optimizing Scripting Languages

RailsConf 2011: Aaron Patterson, "Double Dream Hands: So Intense!"

React without memo

The Memory Sinkhole - Unleashing An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege Escalation

seL4 Is Free – What Does This Mean For You?

Anathem | Neal Stephenson | Talks at Google

2018 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: C. Schafmeister “Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM”

T-Mobile’s path to IPv6 Only

BadUSB - On Accessories that Turn Evil by Karsten Nohl + Jakob Lell

The Principles of Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob Martin

Will Wright GDC 2005 Spore (The Future of Content) Remastered

VCF East: Xerox Star vs. Apple Lisa

Linux for Chromebooks: Secure Development (Google I/O ’19)