Tech Pioneers & Interviews Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 3

interview#1865

The Mind Behind Windows: Dave Cutler

Dave's Garage

“there is an excellent 3 hour long interview with Dave Cutler on that channel.”

4 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

demo#1870

Oculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack

Meta VR

“it was fantastic because, first, you were showing to your audience how to work with Racket”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#1878

Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation

stri8ted

“There is a sort of palpable energy in (Ryan Dahl) node.js original presentation.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#1915

ASPLOS Keynote: The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-design by Dr. Chris Lattner

SiFive

“I watched Chris Lattner's ASPLOS talk and it finally clicked.”

3 HN recommenders · 2021

talk#1987

Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019

SXSW

“He's taking the hacker's perspective and exploring if the simulation would be hackable from inside.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

interview#1993

Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162

Lex Fridman

“Investing time to listen to the guy seems to be not worse.”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

talk#1996

The call to learn | Clifford Stoll

TED

“He's brilliant, bonkers, and wonderful company.”

3 HN recommenders · 2010–2025

interview#1997

Noam Chomsky on Propaganda - The Big Idea - Interview with Andrew Marr

k1mk1mk1m

“The 30 minute episode[1] is well worth a watch”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

interview#2007

John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309

Lex Fridman

“The entire video is worth viewing, an impressive 5:15h!”

3 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

commentary#2029

Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology

TheTedNelson

“Ted has a knack for reframing things in ways that make the arbitrariness of certain historical decisions clear”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2024

interview#2043

Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds [Full-length]

aaltouniversityace

“the whole talk by itself is very recommendable”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

interview#2063

The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman

Christopher Sykes

“Pondering these questions and learning about them gives joy, excitement, peace of mind and is my great hobby.”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

demo#2077

Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr.: The Live Web. Drag 'n drop in the cloud

JSConf

“Dan Ingalls himself presenting his continued work in the browser at JSConf US 2012”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

documentary#2081

Edsger W. Dijkstra on Dutch TV

Yin Wang

“For anyone interested in seeing the human side of Dijkstra, I recommend this documentary”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

talk#2088

Ryan Dahl - History of Node.js

phxtagsoup

“He didn't want to use an ecosystem that had existing blocking code.”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2013

documentary#2100

The Computer Chronicles - Gary Kildall Special (1995)

The Computer Chronicles

“If you want to know how was he IRL I recommend watching Computer chronicles.”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

interview#2131

Elon Musk Interview: 1-on-1 with Sandy Munro

Munro Live

“Check out this video of Musk and Sandy Munro (former Chief Engineer at Ford) talking about it”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

interview#2133

Y Combinator's Paul Graham sits down with Jason at LAUNCH Festival 2014

This Week in Startups

“PG definitely gives up lots of great success tips, so worth watching it all.”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

interview#2187

TWiST #46 with David Heinemeier Hansson

ThisWeekinStartups

“People, please watch these few videos to genuinely understand what 37Signal guys (David and Jason) stand for”

3 HN recommenders · 2010–2014

podcast#2203

Consciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast Clips

Lex Fridman

“I don't take Roger's view about consciousness for granted but it is very interesting nevertheless.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

interview#2207

Peter Thiel on “The Straussian Moment”

Hoover Institution

“There is a Peter Robinson interview about the essay that can serve as a good primer[1].”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

demo#2212

NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo

blatherskyte

“There's a video of steve jobs building a fairly complex DB app without a single line of code, including joins.”

3 HN recommenders · 2007–2016

podcast#2257

Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85

Lex Fridman

“Penrose delivered a very accessible walkthrough of his historical and current thoughts on the topic.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

interview#2299

Elon Musk : How to Build the Future

Y Combinator

“A more down-to-earth video to watch might be this one”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

interview#2300

A Conversation with Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson - Institute of Politics

Harvard University

“Watch this if you only watch one video”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2018

documentary#2327

Seymour Papert

Seth Morabito

“I firmly believe that we'd all be better off if THIS guy had been the one to introduce computers to the common man”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2017

interview#2344

Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #25

Lex Fridman

“Highly recommend the Lex Fridman interview to listen to Jeff explain live”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

interview#2408

Rocker Jack White - Serious Jibber-Jabber with Conan O'Brien | Team Coco

Team Coco

“I highly recommend the interview with Conan”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

talk#2417

John Carmack Facebook Connect 2021 Keynote

UploadVR

“As always, John is a master of communication and clear thought.”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

talk#2428

Gopherfest 2017 | Upspin with Rob Pike

The Go Programming Language

“It's a fascinating talk. I really enjoyed it.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#2439

Apple's World Wide Developers Conference 1997 with Steve Jobs

superapple4ever

“My favorite Jobs masterclass is his talk at Apple's developer conference in 1997”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2022

podcast#2464

Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398

Lex Fridman

“The Fridman - Zuckerberg VR interview really convinced me of this, if you haven't seen it, check it out, it's incredible”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

demo#2466

Steve Jobs introduces iPhone in 2007

John Schroter

“If you want to se the ultimate MVP demo of a product look no further than the 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#2469

Rethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015

Infosys Foundation USA

“I would really really encourage everyone here to watch Alan Kay's recent talks on how poorly we understand systems”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

talk#2472

Chuck Moore's Fireside Chat 2011

GreenArraysInc

“I was blown away by this 2011 video of Charles Moore talking about his CPU design and running code”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2017

interview#2483

Designer's Digest - Steve Jobs on the role of product and marketing people.

Designer's Digest

“Steve Jobs has the best explanation for this.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#2490

Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Fortune Debate, 2012

kykeon

“One of the most interesting debates was between Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel back in 2012”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2020

talk#2505

Louis CK honors George Carlin

Bromista5

“His story is not only inspiring, it transcends comedy.”

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2025

interview#2514

Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital Pt. 2- TWiST #295

This Week in Startups

“My favorite, because it's so full of great stories, is the Chris Sacca interview with Jason Calacanis”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

lecture#2515

Computer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language design

University of Nottingham

“This is an excellent talk on designing successful programming language by Brian Kernighan”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

talk#2530

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 high definition.flv

Jed Joe

“I suggest you see Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech (2005)”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2017

talk#2537

The Origins of Linux—Linus Torvalds

Computer History Museum

“There's a great (long) video about Linus and Linux history from 2001. Watch the whole thing if you can”

2 HN recommenders · 2008–2014

interview#2539

Oral History of Donald Knuth Part 1

Computer History Museum

“It's a _really_ long interview, +7 hours. But it's also superb.”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#2554

Shawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland

Foresight Institute

“It shows just how far the Dynamicland concept can be pushed into a hyperspecific feature set customized to fit a single domain”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

interview#2558

Hacker Interviews: Larry Wall

The BXI

“I really enjoyed this interview with Larry Wall (of Perl fame)”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2024

talk#2594

Reinventing Organizations

Reinventing Organizations

“I can highly recommend watching this video if you're interested in self-management and the idea of a new management paradigm”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2020

talk#2596

Oculus Connect Keynote: John Carmack

Meta VR

“Carmack's 2014 Oculus Connect keynote is well worth watching”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

interview#2623

Surreal Numbers (writing the first book) - Numberphile

Numberphile

“This interview is excellent”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2022