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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Exploring the Tech and Design of Noita

A Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter)

Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey

Mastering the Vim Language

Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025

The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie

Breaking the x86 Instruction Set

Functional Composition - Chris Ford

Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity

What your Differential Pairs Wish You Knew with Rick Hartley - AltiumLive Keynote

Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft

Domain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin

'Diablo': A Classic Game Postmortem

Animations of unseeable biology | Drew Berry | TED

CppCon 2014: Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures"

Cybersecurity as Realpolitik by Dan Geer presented at Black Hat USA 2014

DEF CON 26 - Svea, Suggy, Till - Inside the Fake Science Factory

Miguel de Icaza: Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake #GodotCon2023

MountainWest RubyConf 2013 Devs and Depression by Greg Baugues

A New Way to look at Networking

Jonathan Blow: Game design: the medium is the message

How not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling

"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea

Theory and Practice of Cryptography

James Powell: So you want to be a Python expert? | PyData Seattle 2017

Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)

CppCon 2019: Chandler Carruth “There Are No Zero-cost Abstractions”

CppCon 2017: Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente “Postmodern immutable data structures”

On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (SIGBOVIK)

Casey Muratori | Smart-Pointers, RAII, ZII? Becoming an N+2 programmer

Veritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains

Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering

I don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter - atomic Weapons 1 of 2

The Future of Mathematics?

Sorting Algorithms: Speed Is Found In The Minds of People - Andrei Alexandrescu - CppCon 2019