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 Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)

AlphaFold - The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done

This Invention Made Disney MILLIONS, but Then They LOST It!

Cambridge Ideas - Professor Risk

Why is this number everywhere?

How Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings

I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Alpha Zero's "Immortal Zugzwang Game" against Stockfish

Avoiding Negative Side Effects: Concrete Problems in AI Safety part 1

Extremely Large Numbers 1 - Introduction

ASTOUNDING: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12

In Norway, Everyone Can Know How Much You Earn

How a TV Works in Slow Motion - The Slow Mo Guys

Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

AI "Stop Button" Problem - Computerphile

AI can't cross this line and we don't know why.

Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - Computerphile

If money was no object, should you run every medical test?

10 Reasons to Ignore AI Safety

The Braitenberg Vehicles

This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world

Why Western Designs Fail in Developing Countries

Why Web Filters Don't Work: Penistone and the Scunthorpe Problem

The 100 Year Flood Is Not What You Think It Is (Maybe)

Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)

Defeating Microwave Weapons! - Part 1

Quantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED

Math Magic

Floating Point Numbers - Computerphile

How a Laser-Shot Disk Defeats Hackers & Pirates (Coding Secrets)

The Bayesian Trap

MENACE: the pile of matchboxes which can learn

The simple, clever sensor behind automatic windshield wipers

How Do Night Vision Goggles Work?

What is a Geometry Kernel? C3D vs ACIS vs Parasolid

Tomb Raider on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is incredible | MVG