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

ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems Part 1

Breakout Session Presented by Dan Robinson of Heap at PGConf Silicon Valley 2015

Larry Hastings - Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy - PyCon 2016

How We've Scaled Dropbox

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

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)