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 P vs NP is actually about

Do Complex Numbers Exist?

How are holograms possible?

Gradient descent, how neural networks learn | Deep Learning Chapter 2

The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology

So... the minute hand shows progression — apparently we think of time in wildly different ways

What is Right to Repair? An introduction for curious people.

Starlink revisions, Nov 2018

How secure is 256 bit security?

HACKENBUSH: a window to a new world of math

what did you do

Pi and the Mandelbrot Set - Numberphile

How Does SHA-256 Work?

Why Do Reversing Trucks Not Beep Any More?

Simulating Green Beard Altruism

Flexbox vs. CSS Grid — Which is Better?

The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name

New computers don't speed up old code

Euler's formula with introductory group theory

How Electricity Actually Works

Why Do Mainframes Still Exist? What's Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more!

Fast Inverse Square Root — A Quake III Algorithm

How GPS Works, And How It Got Better Than The Designers Ever Imagined

Why Snow and Confetti Ruin YouTube Video Quality

2016/2017 MUST-KNOW WEB DEVELOPMENT TECH - Watch this if you want to be a web developer

The Fermi Paradox: Dark Forest Theory

Why It's Impossible to Tune a Piano

The Loudness War

You Can Win the Presidency With 22% of the Vote

A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip

Infinite fractions and the most irrational number

You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game Of Life Wrong

3D Gaussian Splatting - Why Graphics Will Never Be The Same

Orbital Data Centers Yes or No

Algorithmic Redistricting: Elections made-to-order

Exclusive: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition Analysis - The First Triple-A Game Built Around Ray Tracing