Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

On the lighter side, "wat" is really fun: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Most recently I really liked "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs": https://vimeo.com/74354480

The ones that had the most profound effect for me would be Linus's talk about git and Carsten Dominik on org-mode.

Also, Richard Feynman explaining how computers work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA This actually changed the way I think about it after years of programming.

This talk was an interesting thought experiment by PhK of FreeBSD on how if he were tasked by some agency to sabotage open source projects and standards how he would go about doing it https://youtu.be/fwcl17Q0bpk

A talk by Robert Harper at OPLSS in 2017 is really good as well, covering the basics of programming language background https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer17/to... "concrete syntax is where computer science meets psychology.... at the moment it's all a matter of opinion"

"Console hacking 2010"[0][1] - The story and history of the different hacks and security bypasses around the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console. Absolutely brilliant.

[0] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4087.en.... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KNZsNTPlec