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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Sloane's Gap - Numberphile

Moon Landings Faked? Filmmaker Says Not!

How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps

The hidden background noise that can catch criminals

How We Should Vote (Range Voting)

Why do Biden's votes not follow Benford's Law?

Why build an entire computer on breadboards?

India's Semiconductor Failure

Why is Japan So Weak in Software?

Turing & The Halting Problem - Computerphile

Strange Spheres in Higher Dimensions - Numberphile

Protecting Privacy with MATH (Collab with the Census)

How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?📡☄🖥

Racing the Beam Explained - Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television

Google Earth’s Incredible 3D Imagery, Explained

Backpropagation calculus | Deep Learning Chapter 4

The Skinner Box - How Games Condition People to Play More - Extra Credits

Pentagons Are Terrible at One Thing

The Josephus Problem - Numberphile

Teardown of an IKEA Koppla USB power supply.

Solving Wordle using information theory

Hold music used to sound better. Here's why.

Finding the BEST sine function for Nintendo 64

It's not you. Bad doors are everywhere.

Simulating alternate voting systems

An astonishing old calculator - Numberphile

5040 and other Anti-Prime Numbers - Numberphile

Why it's not possible to synchronize turn signals (but also absolutely is)

What would we see if we fell into a Black Hole?

Training an unbeatable AI in Trackmania

How the Minecraft Title Screen Seed was Found

How They Caught The Golden State Killer

Exponential growth and epidemics

Some light quantum mechanics (with minutephysics)

How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room

Survivor Bias