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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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

Bitcoin 2012 London: Mike Hearn

ElixirConf 2018 - Docker and OTP Friends or Foes - Daniel Azuma

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

Stanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer

"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

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

AWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton

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