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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"Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022)

Principles of Technology Leadership | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2017

#HITB2012KUL D1T3 - The Grugq - OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd

Keynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator

CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C"

Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity – Andrew Kelley

DOUGLAS ADAMS: Parrots, the Universe and Everything

"Unison: a new distributed programming language" by Paul Chiusano

Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong!

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

Google Self-Driving Car Project | SXSW Interactive 2016

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

QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote

MountainWest RubyConf 2013 Devs and Depression by Greg Baugues

A New Way to look at Networking

Chris McCord - Keynote: Phoenix LiveView - Interactive Apps without Javascript - ElixirConf EU 2019

OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (in plain English)

Jonathan Blow: Game design: the medium is the message

The Road to Zig 1.0 - Andrew Kelley

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