Tech Pioneers & Interviews Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 5

lecture#3437

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)

National Security Agency

“it was gold, I love her sense of humor.”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

talk#3444

Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker

The LBJ School

“This is all reminiscent of the talk Gabe Newell, CEO and founder of Valve, gave on the hiring practices at Valve.”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2017

comedy#3456

Conan O'Brien | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

“This interview of Conan, where Vic was the interviewer, was hilarious.”

2 HN recommenders · 2010–2026

commentary#3465

Steve Jobs on Microsoft

JoshuaG

“This summarize it very well, lack of taste and lack of vision, it's that simple”

2 HN recommenders · 2009–2022

lecture#3499

CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005

CS50

“where he walks through the issues they hit early on.”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

interview#3516

Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21

Lex Fridman

“I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

documentary#3519

The Lighthill Debate (1973) - part 1 of 6

bilkable

“If you want to watch a demolition of it see the following video”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

interview#3521

Micro Men - 10th Anniversary - With Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser

The Centre for Computing History

“That drama is even more enjoyable the second time around with commentary from three of the Acorn team portrayed”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#3542

Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation on 1980 (Insanely Great)

naji1234

“Here's another presentation he did in 1980 that shows he had these skills almost from the very beginning”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

demo#3547

The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh

macessentials

“The video of Steve Jobs introducing the Macintosh in 1984 never fails to put a smile on my face.”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2021

interview#3601

Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business

budagum

“The young guys are more conservative, and more dangerous to the artform, than the old guys with the cigars ever were!”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2026

interview#3623

Foundation 07 // Chris Sacca

Kevin Rose

“This is an amazing interview with Chris Sacca and Kevin Rose”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2013

interview#3627

Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer, 1979

TheTedNelson

“My favorite Ted Nelson interview”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

podcast#3637

Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371

Lex Fridman

“it's worth a watch just to be more prepared for where things are likely headed”

2 HN recommenders · 2023

commentary#3640

steve jobs on why xerox failed

Kumar Saurav

“I keep this clip open in a browser tab so I can go back to it from time-to-time”

1 HN recommenders · 2024

talk#3655

The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet OOPSLA 97 Keynote (VPRI 0719)

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)

“if you have never watched this talk completely at least once, give it a shot and you might be very surprised.”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

interview#3661

Oral History of John Backus

Computer History Museum

“Hearing concepts explained by those who pioneered them really brings them home”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

interview#3665

Feynman_i_dont_like_honors_ [longer_version]

batxg3

“It's worth watching once or twice a year to remind onself to be humble.”

1 HN recommenders · 2009–2024

talk#3679

Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction

JoshuaG

“his announcement of the ipod was an incredible speech”

1 HN recommenders · 2010–2022

interview#3683

Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds

Linus Tech Tips

“Great episode”

1 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

talk#3688

Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014

kungfl

“I thought it was a really interesting talk - he's a great speaker.”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

talk#3711

Seymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL)

UC Berkeley Events

“My favorite part is his description of the aluminum machining they had to invent in order to move the freon through the frame”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

talk#3720

Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart

Computer History Museum

“Ted Nelson's emotional and moving eulogy for his friend Douglas Engelbart.”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

podcast#3721

Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk

PowerfulJRE

“Highly recommend listening to the entire 2.5 hour Joe Rogan podcast[1]. It really does give a nice glimpse into his mind”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

interview#3759

Grace Hopper on Letterman

TheLazlo101

“this seminal scene between the great, late Grace Hopper and David Letterman”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2018

interview#3760

TypeScript is being ported to Go | interview with Anders Hejlsberg

Michigan TypeScript

“Check the longer interview here”

2 HN recommenders · 2025

commentary#3799

Steve Jobs Microsoft has no taste

Николай Товеровский

“It's great vintage Steve Jobs.”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

interview#3806

[11] Mike Clark, AMD Zen Chief Architect

TechTechPotato

“Check out this interview with the actual architect of Zen, Mike Clark.”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

interview#3818

A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston

Y Combinator

“Here is a (recent) very interesting interview with PG, among others, talking about Viaweb.”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

interview#3821

CNN, Feynman and the Challenger disaster

vsrr83

“Richard Feynman served on the Challenger commission and very nicely summarizes the difference between Apollo and Space Shuttle.”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

podcast#3835

Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416

Lex Fridman

“I think you might find Lex Fridmans interview with Yann LeCun interesting[1].”

1 HN recommenders · 2024

interview#3855

Donald Knuth - My advice to young people (93/97)

Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People

“Donald Knuth interviews are so interesting”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#3877

Jim Keller - Moore's Law in the age of AI Chips

Matroid

“Jim Keller had an interesting talk recently [1] about ways of doing parallel processing”

1 HN recommenders · 2020

talk#3958

Paul Graham Keynote Speech At OPT412

pittsburghparks

“It also happens to be one of the few available on youtube[1] if you would rather watch than read.”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

interview#3979

Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75

Lex Fridman

“it made sense to me”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

interview#4015

What is it Like to Work for Elon Musk?

JRE Clips

“Watch this interview with a former Astronaut who worked with SpaceX for Crew Dragon.”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#4018

Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series

MIT Video Productions

“Another interesting resource is Jobs speaking at the MIT Sloan School of Management”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

interview#4057

Linus Torvalds on his insults: respect should be earned.

TFiR

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2018

interview#4066

Steve Jobs: Sale/Marketing People vs. Product People

Think Multiply

“I think this Steve Jobs clip explains it pretty well.”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#4078

Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)

JoshuaG

“In case you wanna procrastinate on a fascinating story about how Apple transitioned to NextStep's stack”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

interview#4085

Elon Musk and Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose

“Elon Musk has a cute and short explanation of "reasoning from first principle" vs. "reasoning by analogy”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2014

talk#4089

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

Y Combinator

“I enjoyed Andrej Karpathy's talk about software in the era of AI.”

1 HN recommenders · 2025

talk#4117

Jordan Hubbard - FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years

iX

“Check out JKH's talk about FreeBSD and potential future directions”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

interview#4127

The First Principles Method Explained by Elon Musk

Innomind

“Reason from First principles is extremely useful for identifying new waves that will carry you in the future with no effort.”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

interview#4131

Oral History of William David "Bill" Mensch Jr.

Computer History Museum

“You might also like the Computer History Museum interview w/Bill Mensch”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

podcast#4137

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109

Lex Fridman

“Loved the episodes with Jim Keller [0] and Brian Kernighan [1] as well.”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

interview#4143

Theo de Raadt (ruBSD 2013)

fuckyoustupidzombie

“I found this ~14 minute interview with Theo de Raadt from ruBSD very interesting”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2020

interview#4228

The mathematician who cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons

TED

“Full-length Numberphile interview”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2024