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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Who Destroyed Three Mile Island? - Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer Austin 2018

On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages by Shriram Krishnamurthi [PWLConf 2019]

8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2

Raymond Hettinger, Keynote on Concurrency, PyBay 2017

Emacs For Writers

"Finding bugs without running or even looking at code" by Jay Parlar

The real story behind Wayland and X

"We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman (2011)

Golang UK Conf. 2016 - Liz Rice - What is a container, really? Let's write one in Go from scratch

Andrew Kelley: A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD)

Greg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing - Code on the Beach 2014

SQLite: The Database at the Edge of the Network with Dr. Richard Hipp

Stuart Halloway - Narcissistic Design

Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks

John Wiegley: Putting Lenses to Work

DEF CON 19 - Moxie Marlinspike - SSL And The Future Of Authenticity

iPhone 1 - Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote in 2007 - Full Presentation, 80 mins

Elm Europe 2017 - Evan Czaplicki - The life of a file

!!Con 2017: HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! by Kevin Chen

Autonomous Testing and the Future of Software Development - Will Wilson

A New Way to look at Networking

Design Patterns vs Anti pattern in APL by Aaron W Hsu at FnConf17

Dasher: information-efficient text entry

How to crash an airplane – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2016

Domain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin - KanDDDinsky 2019

Velocity 2012: Richard Cook, "How Complex Systems Fail"

"Performance (Really) Matters" with Emery Berger

Old Is the New New • Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2018

CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency

Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database

dotJS 2019 - James Long - CRDTs for Mortals

Edwin Brady - Idris 2 - Type-driven Development of Idris

Steve Jobs Insult Response

Debugging with the Scientific Method - Stuart Halloway

The Making of: ROM City Rampage (Retro City Rampage)

"Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming tools" by Max Brunsfeld