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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Rich Hickey rants about HttpServletRequest in 1080p: Death By Specificity from Clojure Made Simple

Bret Victor - The Humane Representation of Thought

Civil War General-Purpose Computing | Cory Doctorow | Talks at Google

Why can't you multiply vectors?

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch | Stefan Karpinski | JuliaCon 2019

Evan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On

Alex Evans at Umbra Ignite 2015: Learning From Failure

TigerStyle! (Or How To Design Safer Systems in Less Time) by Joran Dirk Greef

Java on a 1000 Cores - Tales of Hardware / Software CoDesign

Bryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features compute

DEF CON 23 - Chris Rock - I Will Kill You

Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's Civilization

"Controlling Time and Space: understanding the many formulations of FRP" by Evan Czaplicki

Taking Vector Transposes Seriously | Jiahao Chen | JuliaCon 2017

Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: A Lock-Free Hash Table

Interactive notebooks ~ Pluto.jl | Fons van der Plas | JuliaCon 2020

CppCon 2017: Carl Cook “When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++”

"I See What You Mean" by Peter Alvaro

RailsConf 09: Robert Martin, "What Killed Smalltalk Could K

K Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016

Simplicity Ain't Easy - Stuart Halloway

Clojure Concurrency - Rich Hickey

Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017

Factor: an extensible interactive language

Founder School Session: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental

The Secret History of Silicon Valley

Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl

"Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp" by Aditya Siram

Emacs Org-mode - a system for note-taking and project planning

Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet

GigCityElixir23 - Bryan Hunter

"Outperforming Imperative with Pure Functional Languages" by Richard Feldman

World Building in Blender - Ian Hubert

Leslie Lamport: Thinking Above the Code

EPC2018 | Wave Function Collapse in Bad North | Oskar Stalberg