Strange Loop Conference — Best Videos According to Hacker News
Strange Loop Conference videos on HackerTube, ranked by how often Hacker News commenters recommended them. HN mostly shares this channel in threads about programming language design, functional programming, testing, debugging & developer tools and distributed systems.
- videos on HackerTube
- 45
- best all-time rank
- #17
- recommended on HN
- 2014–2026
Most recommended Strange Loop Conference videos
Each card shows the HN comment that sums it up best.
talk"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)
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“is a must-watch (even if you never touch Clojure)”
14 HN recommenders · 2022–2026
talk"Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson
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“this is one of the most amazing talks on distributed systems”
12 HN recommenders · 2014–2024
talk"Performance Matters" by Emery Berger
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“this is the most amazing optimisation information I have seen”
12 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
talk"Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza" by Martin Kleppmann
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“This talk on Apache Samza completely changed how I think about caching and derived data in general”
9 HN recommenders · 2015–2025
talk"How NOT to Measure Latency" by Gil Tene
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“This a life changing video by Gil Tene on this topic.”
9 HN recommenders · 2015–2026
talk"Propositions as Types" by Philip Wadler
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“best ~40 minutes I've ever spent.”
9 HN recommenders · 2015–2026
talk"The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki (Strange Loop 2023)
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“Very highly recommend this funny, informative talk to understand aspects of creating a programming language other than the theoretical ones.”
10 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
talk"The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong
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“one of those talks which were incredibly funny and informative at the same time”
10 HN recommenders · 2014–2025
talk"Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power" - Chuck Moore (2013)
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“This talk by Chuck Moore at Strange Loop was amazing”
7 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
talk"Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022)
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“One of my favorite talks is”
9 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
talk"Unison: a new distributed programming language" by Paul Chiusano
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“this talk might be a better introduction than just skimming at the landing page.”
7 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
talk"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea
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“There's a great strangeloop talk[2] demonstrating talon and the actual state of voice coding”
5 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
talk"Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks
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“gives an excellent high-level survey of the uses, advantages, and drawbacks of Prolog”
6 HN recommenders · 2015–2023
talk"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki
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“Regardless of whether you agree with his approach to developing a programming language, it is a talk worth listening to. Very insightful.”
8 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
talk"Transducers" by Rich Hickey
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“If you want a really good intro, watch Rich Hickey's talk about transducers”
6 HN recommenders · 2014–2025
talk"Controlling Time and Space: understanding the many formulations of FRP" by Evan Czaplicki
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“I highly recommend Evan's Strange Loop talk”
5 HN recommenders · 2014–2026
talk"I See What You Mean" by Peter Alvaro
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“I highly recommend watching Peter Alvaro’s Strangeloop talk about creating Dedalus”
6 HN recommenders · 2016–2019
talk"Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp" by Aditya Siram
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“@deech's talks, though older now, are fantastic and relevant[1,2].”
2 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
talk"Outperforming Imperative with Pure Functional Languages" by Richard Feldman
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“As a starting point for those nitty grittys, this talk is probably as good as any”
6 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
talk"How to teach programming (and other things)?" by Felienne Hermans
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“The talk is on YouTube and I gotta say, it's very insightful.”
4 HN recommenders · 2019–2026
talk"Finding bugs without running or even looking at code" by Jay Parlar
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“There is a talk that gives a good overview on Alloy and how useful using something like this is”
4 HN recommenders · 2019–2023
talk"We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman (2011)
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“it made me question my views on what I think programming is”
5 HN recommenders · 2022–2026
talk"Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming tools" by Max Brunsfeld
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“Highly recommend Max Brunsfield's strange loop talk if you want to learn more about the design choices behind tree-sitter”
4 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
talk"Data Driven UIs, Incrementally" by Yaron Minsky
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“Any discussion about incremental UI should include Yaron Minsky's talk about Jane Street's OCaml framework, incr_dom from 2016”
4 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
talk"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega
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“Devine had a great talk about the "why" of Uxn at Strange Loop last year”
4 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
talk"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore
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“The basic premise is not do do req/s limiting but rather concurrency limiting which results in req/s limiting by itself.”
4 HN recommenders · 2017–2024
talk"A (Not So Gentle) Introduction To Systems Programming In ATS" by Aditya Siram
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“I recommend watching this presentation for a good idea of what ATS programming is like”
4 HN recommenders · 2017–2022
talk"Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager" by Aaron Cummings
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“this talk was really good”
3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
talk"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell
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“there's a great video of one of his talks”
2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023
talk"Programming Should Eat Itself" by Nada Amin
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“Here's a wonderful demonstration of the power of nestability”
3 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
talk"Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB" by Konrad Malawski (Strange Loop 2023)
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“The fairly recent presentation about starting to move FoundationDB to Swift[0] was also very interesting.”
3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
talk"Tackling Concurrency Bugs with TLA+" by Hillel Wayne
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“If you are new to TLA+ and just want to get the basic idea and use cases, I recommend the talk.”
3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
talk"Compacting the Uncompactable" by Bobby Powers
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“There was a great talk at Strange Loop about a drop-in malloc replacement which compacts.”
3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
talk"How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010)
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“It's a fantastic talk in its own right”
2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
talk"Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers" by Timothy Baldridge
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“There's a talk by the author online worth it”
2 HN recommenders · 2016–2017
talk"Eve" by Chris Granger
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2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023
talk"Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" by Martin Kleppmann
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“I recommend watching this talk from him to give a little glimpse of the book”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
talk"Make the Back-End Team Jealous: Elm in Production" by Richard Feldman
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“Watch this conference to get a sense of what Elm does.”
2 HN recommenders · 2015–2017
talk"Type-Driven Program Synthesis" by Nadia Polikarpova
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“for a motivating talk and explanation on what program synthesis is try this one”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
talk"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)
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“If you want a general overview of cursorless, along with seeing what it looks like in practice, the talk from Strange Loop this year was great”
2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
talk"Agility & Robustness: Clojure spec" by Stuart Halloway
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“He offers a chart that shows the strengths and weaknesses of strict typing versus unit tests versus the run-time checks offered by Spec. It's worth a look.”
2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
talk"A Little Taste of Dependent Types" by David Christiansen
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“Here's an intro to dependent types from David Christiansen”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
talk"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)
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“is a great talk too.”
2 HN recommenders · 2023
talk"Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022)
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“One of the themes they talk about is the difference between "easy to learn" and "easy to teach" which I found insightful.”
2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
talk"Datafun: a functional query language" by Michael Arntzenius
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“Also be sure to watch Datafun author Michael Arntzenius's Strangeloop talk.”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
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