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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Pentagons Are Terrible at One Thing

The Josephus Problem - Numberphile

Teardown of an IKEA Koppla USB power supply.

Solving Wordle using information theory

Bitcoin Q&A: How Do I Secure My Bitcoin?

Hold music used to sound better. Here's why.

Finding the BEST sine function for Nintendo 64

The Art Of Poison-Pilling Music Files

Get Perpendicular

It's not you. Bad doors are everywhere.

Simulating alternate voting systems

A COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop? - Framework Laptop Review

An astonishing old calculator - Numberphile

5040 and other Anti-Prime Numbers - Numberphile

Why it's not possible to synchronize turn signals (but also absolutely is)

What would we see if we fell into a Black Hole?

Training an unbeatable AI in Trackmania

How the Minecraft Title Screen Seed was Found

How They Caught The Golden State Killer

Exponential growth and epidemics

Some light quantum mechanics (with minutephysics)

How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room

Survivor Bias

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

A man asked AI for health advice and it cooked every brain cell

Why Your Webcam Still SUCKS!

The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century

Walmart's $250 laptop is AWESOME!

The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure

STOP Buying ANDROID TV Boxes!

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

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