Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched?
Simple Made Easy is one of my favorites: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4&pp=ygUQc2ltcGxlIG1...
The Normalization of Deviance is another: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljzj9Msli5o&pp=ygUZbm9ybWFsaXp...
"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbGM4mqEVw
This is one of the two most influential books I've read.
I enjoyed this one by Seth Godin, 2025 from HOPE conf: https://www.youtube.com/live/7ZeN53mKhbE?si=cPF2iYWmI3TECdVH... - Hacking The Tech Industrial Complex: Learning to See Invisible Systems
"Stop Writing Classes" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0
It changed the way I thought about programming. I had mostly been exposed to OOP ideas and this talk made me realize that a lot of them aren't necessary.
Remote work is effective—why the RTO mandates? | Heejung Chung | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xHQWLjE6xQ
Bret Victor, "Inventing on principle"
Ambitiously positioned, very human. It was formative for how I think about software.
Sandi Metz did an awesome talk on code smells which lives rent free in my head. https://youtu.be/PJjHfa5yxlU
recently ...
1000x: The Power of an Interface for Performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKgfk8lTQuE
by Joran Dirk Greef
There's no such thing as plain text - Dylan Beattie
Refactoring to Immutability - Kevlin Henney
read the transcript before watching the vid; some smooth talkers aren’t saying very much
Does it have to be in person? If not, "Fuck You, Pay Me" from Mike Monteiro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U