Google TechTalks — Best Videos According to Hacker News

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The Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know

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“This is the video that finally made it click for me[1].”

11 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

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How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters

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“Absolutely far and away the best resource that I found was this Google TechTalk by Joshua Bloch”

12 HN recommenders · 2011–2025

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JavaScript: The Good Parts

Google TechTalks

“This video changed my mind”

11 HN recommenders · 2009–2020

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Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming

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“I challenge anyone to watch this lecture from Christian Schafmeister and say they are not impressed”

8 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

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Personal Growth Series: Dr. William Dement on Healthy Sleep and Optimal Perfo...

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“The source of information about this that I have found most useful is an hour long talk given by Dr. William Dement”

6 HN recommenders · 2008–2024

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Bay Area Vision Meeting: Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning

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“he explains very simply how all this works for images and some examples about the audio case.”

9 HN recommenders · 2011–2013

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Theory and Practice of Cryptography

Google TechTalks

“Here's a long but fascinating tech talk on a real solution”

5 HN recommenders · 2011–2019

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Brains, Sex, and Machine Learning

Google TechTalks

“If you want a great overview of the dropout technique, watch this tech talk by Hinton”

7 HN recommenders · 2012–2017

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Java on a 1000 Cores - Tales of Hardware / Software CoDesign

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“Anything from Cliff Click is quite good.”

5 HN recommenders · 2009–2025

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Factor: an extensible interactive language

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“It absolutely blew my mind.”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley

Google TechTalks

“This is an eye opening perspective on some history "hidden in plain sight" of the origins of Silicon Valley.”

5 HN recommenders · 2008–2016

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Emacs Org-mode - a system for note-taking and project planning

Google TechTalks

“The best advertisement for org-mode I've seen is this long Google Tech Talk”

5 HN recommenders · 2009–2024

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A JVM Does That?

Google TechTalks

“It's well worth watching if you are interested in vms at all.”

4 HN recommenders · 2011–2017

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GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary

Google TechTalks

“Recommend watching “Get lamp” documentary to fans of MUDs, text adventures”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

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Dasher: information-efficient text entry

Google TechTalks

“Dasher is fantastic, because it's based on rock solid information theory, designed by the late David MacKay.”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

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The Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Why Didn't This Happen (and why is now the right time?)

Google TechTalks

“Kirk Sorensen has been a major advocate of molten-salt reactors and gave a great Google tech talk on the subject.”

4 HN recommenders · 2012–2022

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Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr.

Google TechTalks

“watch Guy Steele's talks [1][2][3] if you are interested in data parallelism!”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

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Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor

Google TechTalks

“If you don't know about the LFTR, check out this talk by Kirk Sorensen”

3 HN recommenders · 2009–2011

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Practical Common Lisp

Google TechTalks

“I will forever think of this talk by Peter Siebel”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2025

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Playing to Lose: AI and "Civilization" (Soren Johnson)

Google TechTalks

“Extremely enlightening, whether you are a gamer or not.”

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2026

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The Surprising History of Copyright and What It Means For...

Google TechTalks

“Karl Fogel does a great job explaining the History of copyright”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

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Is Nuclear Waste Really Waste?

Google TechTalks

“This talk from 2010 is really amazing at understanding what 'nuclear waste' actually is and what it will be.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

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Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules

Google TechTalks

“I challenge anyone to watch this lecture from Christian Schafmeister and say they are not impressed”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

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"The Clean Code Talks -- Inheritance, Polymorphism, & Testing"

Google TechTalks

“This talk gives a great overview of why boolean flags (rather, if-statements) can be a code smell”

3 HN recommenders · 2009–2023

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Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right

Google TechTalks

“getting it right can make really powerful games”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2014

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High Performance Web Sites and YSlow

Google TechTalks

“Everything they produce about the subject (and I don't just mean the plugin) is solid gold.”

2 HN recommenders · 2009

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Differential Synchronization

Google TechTalks

“The really nice bits, though, are that it is a simple algorithm”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2020

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Monads and Gonads

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“what I thought to be one of DC's greatest talks”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

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Speed Up Your JavaScript

Google TechTalks

“the fundamental ideas are still the same.”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

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Sensor Fusion on Android Devices: A Revolution in Motion Processing

Google TechTalks

“I'm always happy to share this incredible lecture from many many years ago”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

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Kilim: Fast, lightweight, cheap message passing in Java.

Google TechTalks

“Kilim's author did a nice Google Talk”

2 HN recommenders · 2009–2012

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A Possible Future of Software Development

Google TechTalks

“Watch this Sean Parent video”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2019

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Genetics and Intelligence

Google TechTalks

“You can also choose to spend an hour on this talk by Stephen Hsu who does research on IQ and genetics”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

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Don't Make Me Click

Google TechTalks

“Read Don't Make Me Think! by Steve Krug. Also watch this talk titled”

2 HN recommenders · 2008–2020

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Recent Developments in Deep Learning

Google TechTalks

“There's a great Google Tech Talk by Geoff Hinton that serves as a slightly technical introduction to Deep Learning if anyone's interested”

3 HN recommenders · 2010–2026

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Your Brain at Work

Google TechTalks

“it's pretty interesting stuff for developers and knowledge workers”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2015

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Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability

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“Really good talk with lots of jewels.”

2 HN recommenders · 2008–2013

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Three Beautiful Quicksorts

Google TechTalks

“If you're looking for programming inspiration I love these videos”

2 HN recommenders · 2010–2023

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The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be

Google TechTalks

“Brilliant fairly technical presentation on Thorium.”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2014

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Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power...

Google TechTalks

“it's an intense, fast-paced, insightful, and (likely) final public look into his mind, his work, and his character.”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2022

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Building Software at Google Scale Tech Talk

Google TechTalks

“there is an interesting video "Building Software at Google Scale" [1], which seems to give an overview of the systems used.”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2014

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Linear Book Scanner

Google TechTalks

“Google developed a system called the "cheese grater" and open-sourced the plans / design”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2021

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Building Brains to Understand the World's Data

Google TechTalks

“he gets into his ideas about the structure of the brain, and what he's done to reconstruct it in software/hardware.”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2017

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Larry Wall Speaks at Google

Google TechTalks

“here's a Google Tech Talk from last year, which is nowhere near as funny as Larry usually is, but is still quite informative”

1 HN recommenders · 2009–2018

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Founders@Google Presents: The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange

Google TechTalks

“If you want to hear more about this you should watch Joel Spolsky's talk”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

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Learning from StackOverflow.com

Google TechTalks

“Watch Joel's tech talk - they really did figure a ton of it out at the start.”

1 HN recommenders · 2009–2021

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Visualizing Data Using t-SNE

Google TechTalks

“there's a really interesting Google techtalk on how it works”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2019

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The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away

Google TechTalks

“Ron Garret talks about DS1, a project in the 90s where a small team used Lisp”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2024

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NYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the Internet

Google TechTalks

“Backups are a tax you pay for the luxury of restore”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

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An Introduction to SQLite

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“is actually a pretty good intro on to how to build your own DB engine.”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2018

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Compiling and Optimizing Scripting Languages

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“Some great examples of disappointments and challenges!”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2020

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The Go Programming Language

Google TechTalks

“A good starting point is their FAQ page and also the tech talk at youtube”

1 HN recommenders · 2009–2026

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Inbox Zero

Google TechTalks

“lifehacking is similar to optimizing the process of taking orders and organizing them, but at some point those orders actually need to be fulfilled”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2023