CppCon — Best Videos According to Hacker News

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CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “std::allocator...”

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“It really opened my eyes to how one could very elegantly make a very complex and high-performance heap allocator”

7 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

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CppCon 2017: Matt Kulukundis “Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-friendly Hash Table, Step by Step”

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“Excellent talk which explains the concepts really clearly and concisely.”

9 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

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CppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”

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“there is a wonderful talk by Jason Turner about writing a simple Pong clone for the Commodore 64 in modern C++”

13 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

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CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"

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“one of the most digestible ways to start thinking about performance in high throughput systems”

9 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

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CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C"

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“Not only is she a great presenter, but she makes amazing points about what is fundamentally wrong with how C++ is taught in classrooms around the globe.”

7 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

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CppCon 2014: Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures"

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“I'm also a big fan of "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures" by Chandler Carruth at CppCon 2014.”

7 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

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CppCon 2019: Chandler Carruth “There Are No Zero-cost Abstractions”

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“Chandler presents his point clearly and goes deep enough into the subject.”

7 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

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CppCon 2017: Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente “Postmodern immutable data structures”

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“Immer [0][1] seems like a really serious attempt at bringing high-quality persistent data structures to C++.”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

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Sorting Algorithms: Speed Is Found In The Minds of People - Andrei Alexandrescu - CppCon 2019

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“At first he is just showing simple stuff, but stay with it, he goes deep.”

7 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

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CppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”

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“Both are great presentations going into details on some of the crazy optimizations compilers will do.”

7 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

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CppCon 2017: Titus Winters “C++ as a "Live at Head" Language”

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“a much more nuanced look at dependencies & versioning”

7 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

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CppCon 2015: Greg Law " Give me 15 minutes & I'll change your view of GDB"

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“this brilliant short talk (15min) about gdb's TUI.”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

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Can C++ be 10x Simpler & Safer? - Herb Sutter - CppCon 2022

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“One of those few talks that left me genuinely enthused about the topic.”

6 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

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CppCon 2017: Carl Cook “When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++”

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“Here are some talks that will give you a small overview into that world”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

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CppCon 2015: Herb Sutter "Writing Good C++14... By Default"

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“Take a look at Herb Sutter's CppCon talk this year”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2018

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CppCon 2016: Herb Sutter “Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default.”

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“Check all of Herb Sutter's CppCon videos from 2015-2016, especially this one”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

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C++ Exceptions for Smaller Firmware - Khalil Estell - CppCon 2024

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“In particular, his 2019 presentation [2] describes different error handling techniques”

5 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

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CppCon 2017: Louis Brandy “Curiously Recurring C++ Bugs at Facebook”

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“is a great video that covers a lot of good stuff in particular this usability bug. It's worth watching in its entirety.”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

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De-fragmenting C++: Making Exceptions and RTTI More Affordable and Usable - Herb Sutter CppCon 2019

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“I can really recommend this talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

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CppCon 2016: Nicholas Ormrod “The strange details of std::string at Facebook"

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“it's still definitely worth a watch”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

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CppCon 2015: Sean Parent "Better Code: Data Structures"

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“this one really made me aware of what just might be the best way to think about it.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

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CppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior..."

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“Chandler Carruth's talk on the subject was really useful for my own understanding of the reasoning behind UB”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

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CppCon 2017: Chandler Carruth “Going Nowhere Faster”

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“The best presentation I've seen about CPU performance related to pipelining, branch prediction, and speculative execution”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

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Stephan T. Lavavej “Floating-Point ＜charconv＞: Making Your Code 10x Faster With C++17's Final Boss”

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“Stephan T Lavavej also had a surprisingly fun and approachable talk on that problem”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

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CppCon 2016: Dan Saks “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++”

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“The mentioned cppcon presentation by Dan Saks is awesome. Highly recommend watching even if you are not interested in C or C++”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

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CppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “C++ atomics, from basic to advanced. What do they really do?”

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“Watching this was enlightening to say the least (and the presenter is very good)”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

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CppCon 2015: Chandler Carruth "Tuning C++: Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!"

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“Optimizing the Emergent Structures of C++”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

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CppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup “Writing Good C++14”

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“If you want to start with modern c++ watch this”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2018

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CppCon 2017: Herb Sutter “Meta: Thoughts on generative C++”

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“Herb Sutter's talk about it is by far the best talk I've seen from from CppCon17.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

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CppCon 2015: Timur Doumler “C++ in the Audio Industry”

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“he goes through real time strategies to keep the response time under around 30ms IIRC”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

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CppCon 2018: Stoyan Nikolov “OOP Is Dead, Long Live Data-oriented Design”

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“a more recent video on it from CppCon 2018 where the presenter goes over a specific worked example.”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

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CppCon 2014: Jeff Preshing "How Ubisoft Develops Games for Multicore - Before and After C++11"

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“Jeff Preshing gave a really good introduction to atomics at CppCon 2014.[1]”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2021

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CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part I"

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“There's a pretty interesting video of how the Office team uses C++ for their cross-platform efforts”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2019

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Abseil's Open Source Hashtables: 2 Years In - Matt Kulukundis - CppCon 2019

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“gets into more depth of why this is a good idea”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

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CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part II"

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“Microsoft have a very interesting approach with their Office suite when it comes to cross-platform development.”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

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CppCon 2018:H. Wright “Large-Scale Changes at Google: Lessons Learned From 5 Yrs of Mass Migrations”

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“The discussions from Hyrum Wright from Google about large-scale refactoring are great in this respect.”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

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CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “Declarative Control Flow"

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“Andrei Alexandrescu has a fun talk about implementing scope_exit”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

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CppCon 2019: Emery Berger “Mesh: Automatically Compacting Your C++ Application's Memory”

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“the weird and wonderful work of Emery Berger et al with their “Mesh” malloc implementation, which blows my mind”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

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CppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes”

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“a cool feature he presented is the integrated LLVM Machine Code Analyser tool”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

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Plenary: Performance Matters - Emery Berger - CppCon 2020

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“covers the basics of how to attempt benchmarking with actual computer science instead of myth and voodoo rituals”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

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CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Back to the Basics! Essentials of Modern C++ Style"

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2 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

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CppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Path Tracing Three Ways: A Study of C++ Style”

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“On OOP versus more cache friendly approaches and branch prediction this talk from CPPCon 2019 is great”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

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CppCon 2018: Hana Dusíková “Compile Time Regular Expressions”

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“A 54:47 presentation at CppCon 2018 is worth more than a thousand words”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

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CppCon 2017: Kate Gregory “10 Core Guidelines You Need to Start Using Now”

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“I recommend the tl;dr version from Kate Gregory at CppCon 2017”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2019

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CppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “High Performance Code 201: Hybrid Data Structures"

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“I suggest watching this talk”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2021