Mine is "The Internet With A Human Face", by Maciej Cegłowski
http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm
It's what I direct non-technical people to when they ask what the big deal about internet privacy is.
Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#132By far my favorite talk is and has been for a very long time Bret Victor's inventing on principle, for me, nothing comes close, except for some of his other work I suppose. https://vimeo.com/36579366
Thanks for posting this, very much appreciated.
Are there any tools available which allow you to live code in such a way?
I did a quick search and found this - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9448215/tools-to-support-...
It seems quite out of date though.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#133Aaron Patterson talks (aka @tenderlove): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3gYklsN9uc
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#134A few of Bryan Cantrill's talks have already been mentioned here, but this one about DTrace, from 2007, is a gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmA48fILq8
I especially like the part in the middle where he tells the story of how a an awful GNOME applet was killing a Sun Ray server, and how he tracked down the culprit with DTrace.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#135I love the Ted Nelson "Computers For Cynics" series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk
He is kinda awesome in Herzog's recent 'Lo and Behold' too.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#136Closure, by @steveklabnik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaWHVceDbFo
So many lessons in short, beautiful piece.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#137https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-... is by far my favorite technical talk right now.
Sussman goes over some interesting ideas on the provenance of calculations and asserts that "exact" computation is possibly not worth the cost.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#138Agile Is Dead: By Dave Thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M
I love his talks for a few reasons:
Often times...
1. He's anti-hype
2. He's contriversal
3. He's right.Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#139The Pixel Factory by Steven Wittens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NkjLWAkYZ8
For those how likes computer graphics (or want to learn), this is a gold piece.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#140Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4dlF0kcThQ