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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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

!!Con 2016 - How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!! By Sina Bahram

"Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks

28c3: The coming war on general computation

DEF CON 22 - Zoz - Don't Fuck It Up!

Gtk to Qt - a strange journey [linux.conf.au 2014]

Jonathan Blow: Video Games and the Human Condition

Functional architecture - The pits of success - Mark Seemann

How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes

CppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”

Jake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tasks, requestAnimationFrame, ...

Co-dfns Live Stream: Compiler Design and Architecture

The best stats you've ever seen | Hans Rosling

Bryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones

OOPSLA Conference: Growing a Language

DEF CON 22 - Deviant Ollam & Howard Payne - Elevator Hacking - From the Pit to the Penthouse

"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0

Introduction to NoSQL • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2012

dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated

[HOPE X] Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse

CppCon 2017: Titus Winters “C++ as a "Live at Head" Language”

Paxos lecture (Raft user study)

Secret History of Silicon Valley

How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Google I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer

Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013 Presentation

4 2 1 Christopher Domas The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization

"Transducers" by Rich Hickey

David Kriesel: Traue keinem Scan, den du nicht selbst gefälscht hast

Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018

I Like Notebooks

The Clean Architecture in Python

Brains, Sex, and Machine Learning