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

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

Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs

User-level threads....... with threads. - Paul Turner - Google

38C3 - From Silicon to Sovereignty: How Advanced Chips are Redefining Global Dominance

2016 - On The Shoulders Of Giants - Damian Conway

CppCon 2015: Greg Law " Give me 15 minutes & I'll change your view of GDB"

BlueHat IL 2019 - Andrew "bunnie" Huang - Supply Chain Security: "If I were a Nation State...”

DOOM: Behind the Music

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?

DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Cal Henderson

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

Robocalypse Now: Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

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

Pete Hunt: React - Rethinking Best Practices (updated) - JSConf.Asia 2013

Can C++ be 10x Simpler & Safer? - Herb Sutter - CppCon 2022