The Best Software Tech Talks Ever, Ranked By Techyaks Score.

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  • You Suck at Excel

    Fog Creek 2015 · Joel Spolsky
    54 minutes · 230,026 views · 3,395 likes

  • Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

    USENIX LISA 2011 · Bryan M. Cantrill
    1 hour 4 minutes · 146,976 views · 1,639 likes

  • 10 Things I Regret About Node.js

    JSConf EU 2018 · Ryan Dahl
    26 minutes · 219,934 views

  • Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips

    HOPE 2009 ·
    1 hour 1 minute · 93,057 views · 1,629 likes

  • Hammock Driven Development

    ClojureConj 2010 · Rich Hickey
    39 minutes · 156,929 views

  • Growing a Language

    ACM OOPSLA 1998 · Guy Steele
    53 minutes · 102,600 views · 1,738 likes

  • Spec-ulation Keynote

    ClojureConj 2016 · Rich Hickey
    1 hour 16 minutes · 69,056 views · 834 likes

  • How SQL Database Engines Work

    OpenSQLCamp 2008 · Dr. Richard Hipp
    44 minutes · 55,725 views · 527 likes

  • Linus Torvalds on git

    Google · Linus Torvalds
    1 hour 10 minutes · 2,071,321 views · 12,983 likes

  • Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code

    PyCon 2015 · Raymond Hettinger
    52 minutes · 256,847 views · 4,073 likes

  • Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe

    SHARE 2016 · Connor Krukosky
    45 minutes · 2,194,867 views · 18,747 likes

  • A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect (aka The Mother of All Demos)

    FJCC 1968 · Douglas Engelbart
    1 hour 40 minutes · 738,131 views · 7,652 likes

  • What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services

    GOTO 2016 · Matt Ranney
    46 minutes · 177,804 views · 1,798 likes

  • What Would You Do With Your Own Google?

    OSCON Data 2011 · Steve Yegge
    15 minutes · 61,044 views · 911 likes

  • Y Not -- Adventures in Functional Programming

    Ruby Conference 2012 · Jim Weirich
    53 minutes · 46,909 views · 701 likes

  • Introducing React Native

    React.js Conf 2015 · Tom Occhino
    31 minutes · 269,775 views · 2,236 likes

  • Data-Oriented Design and C++

    CppCon 2014 · Mike Acton
    1 hour 27 minutes · 246,896 views · 2,877 likes

  • Computer Heuristics Lecture

    Richard Feynman
    1 hour 15 minutes · 537,928 views · 5,482 likes

  • Using Rust For Game Development

    Rust Conf 2018 · Catherine West
    42 minutes · 21,414 views · 663 likes

  • Keynote: Simplicity Matters

    RailsConf 2012 · Rich Hickey
    36 minutes · 132,258 views · 1,974 likes

  • Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure

    ClojureConj 2017 · Rich Hickey
    1 hour 14 minutes · 69,357 views · 1,257 likes

  • I made a cell phone! (DON'T TELL THE FCC KTHX!)

    !!Con 2015 · Kevin Lynagh
    12 minutes · 20,729 views · 394 likes

  • Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity

    Recurse Center · Andrew Kelley
    54 minutes · 19,398 views · 318 likes

  • The Future of Programming

    DBX 2011 · Bret Victor
    32 minutes · 154,729 views · 3,309 likes

  • The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental

    DEMO 2014 · Alan Kay
    43 minutes · 37,037 views

  • Maybe Not

    Clojure Conj 2018 · Rich Hickey
    1 hour 3 minutes · 35,497 views · 781 likes

  • Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple

    MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series 1992 · Steve Jobs
    1 hour 12 minutes · 166,740 views · 3,357 likes

  • Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy

    PyCon US 2016 · Larry Hastings
    32 minutes · 36,440 views · 448 likes

  • Power of Simplicity

    SAP 2015 · Alan Kay
    51 minutes · 69,540 views · 941 likes

  • Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"?

    Qualcomm 2014 · Alan Kay
    1 hour 42 minutes · 51,169 views · 547 likes

  • The History of Unix,

    Sydney Tech Week 2018 · Rob Pike
    1 hour · 42,263 views · 974 likes

  • Agile is Dead

    GOTO 2015 · Dave Thomas
    40 minutes · 530,712 views · 6,226 likes

  • How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters

    Google Tech Talks 2007 · Joshua Block
    1 hour · 362,523 views · 2,556 likes

  • Inventing on Principle

    CUSEC 2012 · Bret Victor
    54 minutes · 158,172 views · 3,162 likes

  • Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation

    Strange Loop 2014 · Will Wilson
    40 minutes · 15,364 views · 234 likes

  • Large-Scale Deep Learning for Intelligent Computer Systems

    Bay Learn 2015 · Jeff Dean
    44 minutes · 39,622 views · 357 likes

  • Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay

    Code Mesh 2016 · Joe Armstrong, Alan Kay
    1 hour 16 minutes · 30,691 views · 486 likes

  • The Mess We're In

    Strange Loop · Joe Armstrong
    45 minutes · 141,167 views · 2,117 likes

  • John Carmack's Keynote at Quakecon 2013 part 4

    Quakecon 2013 · John Carmack
    30 minutes · 117,162 views · 998 likes

  • Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM

    PyCon US 2013 · Mirabai Knight
    34 minutes · 65,881 views · 718 likes

  • The coming war on general computation

    28c3 2011 · Cory Doctorow
    54 minutes · 229,424 views · 3,654 likes

  • Give me 15 minutes & I'll change your view of GDB

    CppCon 2015 · Greg Law
    14 minutes · 117,741 views · 1,800 likes

  • Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014

    Oculus Connect 2014 · John Carmack
    1 hour 36 minutes · 75,168 views · 796 likes

  • Breaking the x86 Instruction Set

    Black Hat 2017 · Christopher Domas
    44 minutes · 215,406 views · 6,394 likes

  • Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years

    YUI Theater 2011 · Douglas Crockford
    1 hour 42 minutes · 212,826 views · 1,457 likes

  • Om Next

    EuroClojure 2015 · David Nolen
    46 minutes · 40,785 views

  • HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?!

    !!Con 2017 · Kevin Chen
    11 minutes · 98,028 views · 1,673 likes

  • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

    Talks at Google · Anand Giridharadas
    1 hour · 34,675 views · 742 likes

  • The computer revolution hasnt happened yet

    OOPSLA 1997 · Alan Kay
    1 hour 4 minutes · 54,417 views · 764 likes

  • Lexical Scanning in Go

    GoogleFOSSSydney 2011 · Rob Pike
    51 minutes · 78,906 views · 888 likes