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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The 3D-Printed Curta Calculator

Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon

Leap Technology

Altair 8800 - Video #7.1 - Loading 4K BASIC with a Teletype

The IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II

TOTAL teardown of a lithium phone battery.

Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ)

Megaprocessor Tour 1 - (fixed audio)

The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh

EEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown

Open Source 8.5 Digit Voltmeter from CERN: Build and Test

Alternate Reality Kit by Randall Smith at Xerox PARC 1986 (VPRI-0131)

2Advanced Studios v2 flash website in 2001

Data-Oriented Demo: SOA, composition

8088 MPH by Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE (final version)

NASA | A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2

Freespin

Dangerous tattoo remover from eBay is a MILLION watt laser

High-Speed Robot Hand

Amiga Boing Ball

TypeScript types can run DOOM

Awesome flesh-burning death lamp. (Germicidal UV)

Alto System Project: Larry Tesler demonstration of Gypsy

[756] Sentry Safe Cut in Half FAST!

Real Life Emoji Keyboard!

Linear Book Scanner

TRON Smart House

Raycasting engine in Factorio (vanilla 0.17) - Facto-RayO v1.0

Spaceballs - State of the Art - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)

Apple's Future Computer: The Knowledge Navigator

World's Fastest Camera Drone Vs F1 Car (ft. Max Verstappen)

Deep Visualization Toolbox

Xerox Star User Interface (1982) 1 of 2

Computational Design of Mechanical Characters

Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second

The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video