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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Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans • GOTO 2016

Zach Tellman - Everything Will Flow

Scale By The Bay 2018: Bryan Cantrill, Rust and Other Interesting Things

Mike Monteiro - "Fuck you pay me" (PT Br)

The Web That Never Was - Dylan Beattie

Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture

2 1 1 Jason Scott Rescuing The Prince of Persia from the sands of time

[JSConfUS 2013] Steven Wittens: Making WebGL Dance

LibreSSL with Bob Beck

Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain — Runar Bjarnason

Cliff Click @ VMSS16: Bits of Advice For the VM Writer

Dconf 2014 Day 2 Keynote: The Last Thing D Needs -- Scott Meyers

ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems Part 1

Are We There Yet - Rich Hickey

Dtrace Review

Rails Conf 2013 The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz

Ruby Manor 3 - Programming with Nothing by Tom Stuart

Alan Kay - Programming and Scaling

NSA operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report

"How to teach programming (and other things)?" by Felienne Hermans

Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022

I Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: Reach

Kim Nilsson - Cracking MtGox

Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online

Cheng Lou - On the Spectrum of Abstraction at react-europe 2016

The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages - SXSW

Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook

Intro to AI Safety, Remastered

I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers

A JVM Does That?

clojure.core/typing - Matt Adereth

GPUs to Mars: Full-Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine

Complete Apple WWDC | Steve Jobs talk and answer developers questions | 1997

Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn

John Carmack's keynote at Quakecon 2013 part 4

Building a Better Web Browser - James Mickens - Harvard CS Colloquium 2015