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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The Trinity Hall Prime - Numberphile

Is 5G Spelling Our DOOM?! How EM Waves Can Hurt

How Wrong Is VERITASIUM? A Lamp and Power Line Story

Group theory, abstraction, and the 196,883-dimensional monster

AT&T Archives: The Step-By-Step Switch

The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century

The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure

The 1988 VIDEO Floppy Disk Camera: Canon Xap Shot RC-250

Why is there no equation for the perimeter of an ellipse‽

Darts in Higher Dimensions (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile

Why do people keep getting this wrong‽

The Unbeatable Game from the 60s: Dr NIM

The Universe is Hostile to Computers

GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines

This Video Has 77,321,815 Views

How big is a billion? - Numberphile

The step-by-step, mechanical logic of old pinball machines

“Too Much Thermal Paste” – Benchmark of Thermal Paste Quantity

These Are Not Pixels: Revisited

The most deadly project on the Internet

Crowd Wisdom Principles

Correlation CAN Imply Causation! | Statistics Misconceptions

The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything

The Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future

Mechanical circuits: electronics without electricity

What is PLUS times PLUS?

Base 12 - Numberphile

Ch(e)at GPT? - Computerphile

Typesetters in the '80s - Computerphile

pointerpointer.com's use of voronoi, canvas, and javascript

Design Club - Super Mario Bros: Level 1-1 - How Super Mario Mastered Level Design

How Japan Learned Semiconductors

Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%

How to slow down a stock exchange

Why the Soviet Computer Failed

why typing like this is sometimes okay.