Python, Ruby & Scripting Languages Videos Hacker News Recommends

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Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich

Confreaks

“perhaps the most entertaining and interesting technical talk I've ever seen.”

17 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

lecture#5

The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd

Andrej Karpathy

“It's especially useful because he explains the why and provides intuitive explanations instead of just talking about the what and how.”

17 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#7

How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask framework

Видео с мероприятий {speach!

“This excellent talk describes how the semantics of the "add" operation are much more complex than generally described.”

15 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#12

RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz

Confreaks

“this talk captures all the important values in a single example.”

15 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#21

What the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU

JSConf

“The tool he created to display the event loop in real time is fantastic.”

16 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#64

How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters

Google TechTalks

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

12 HN recommenders · 2011–2025

explainer#68

The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile

Computerphile

“a must watch for developers just starting out with Timezones”

12 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

talk#116

RailsConf 2016 - Turbolinks 5: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Native! by Sam Stephenson

Confreaks

“I highly recommend this talk on managing the complexity of basecamp and sharing a codebase between web and native apps.”

6 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

talk#127

Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts

ClojureTV

“Brian Goetz's talk nails it on the head why the languages in my day-to-day are sub-optimal”

10 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#136

Ruby Midwest 2011 - Keynote: Architecture the Lost Years by Robert Martin

Confreaks

“The talk that had the most influence on how I write software is Robert 'Uncle Bob' Martin's "Architecture: The Lost Years”

10 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

talk#146

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Google TechTalks

“This video changed my mind”

11 HN recommenders · 2009–2020

talk#176

Using Python to Code by Voice

Next Day Video

“Travis Rudd's incredible demo of voice coding [1]”

12 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#182

Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python

Next Day Video

“the excellent talk "Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python".”

9 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

talk#193

Modern Dictionaries by Raymond Hettinger

SF Python

“one of the most insightful videos I've seen in a long time.”

9 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

talk#232

Stop Writing Classes

Next Day Video

“Jack Diederich has a great video called Stop Writing Classes: It's about Python, but the observation can apply to several languages.”

8 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

demo#271

7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyists

Avdi Grimm

“As a Ruby developer this video about Pharo smalltalk made me a smalltalk believer”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

talk#280

Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM

Next Day Video

“Mirabai Knight's talk about this is one of my all time faves”

8 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

talk#319

Keynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator

Next Day Video

“It was the talk that brought about the biggest change in the way I think about the world, my ambitions.”

7 HN recommenders · 2012–2023

talk#330

A Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter)

David Beazley

“it's quite possible the best conference talk I've ever seen.”

7 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#379

Miguel de Icaza: Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake #GodotCon2023

Godot Engine

“Miguel De Icaza’s talk on the topic is highly recommended”

6 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#413

James Powell: So you want to be a Python expert? | PyData Seattle 2017

PyData

“It's legitimately the best technical talk I think I've seen and I can't recommend it highly enough.”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#450

I don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

O'Reilly

“The parent article links this great talk that goes into more detail than the parent post and is much easier to understand”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

demo#471

VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018

Saul Pwanson

“visdata is pretty mind-blowing...at least, that's how i felt when i saw the demo the first time”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#520

Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013 Presentation

Enthought

“on Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research is worth a watch”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2018

talk#544

The Clean Architecture in Python

Next Day Video

“I'd really recommend this video.”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

talk#564

2016 - On The Shoulders Of Giants - Damian Conway

The Perl and Raku Conference - Greenville, SC 2026

“the whole thing is like watching a great movie”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

talk#588

DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Cal Henderson

Google for Developers

“a brilliant (and hilarious) talk”

6 HN recommenders · 2009–2026

talk#619

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

Google TechTalks

“Anything from Cliff Click is quite good.”

5 HN recommenders · 2009–2025

talk#658

RailsConf 09: Robert Martin, "What Killed Smalltalk Could K

O'Reilly

“I find this talk [0] very informative and useful while interacting with other languages and communities.”

5 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

talk#663

K Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

“It's a beautiful talk about music, programming, biking, and life”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

talk#764

Larry Hastings - Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

“I think Larry Hasting's first Gilectomy talk was extremely insightful”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#776

Rails Conf 2013 The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz

Confreaks

“watch Sandi Metz' incredible RailsConf talk”

5 HN recommenders · 2013–2019

talk#779

Ruby Manor 3 - Programming with Nothing by Tom Stuart

Confreaks

“An awesome video which changed my perspective towards lambda calculus and programming in general”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2019

tutorial#821

David Beazley - Lambda Calculus from the Ground Up - PyCon 2019

PyCon 2019

“David Beazley gives a brilliant introduction to lambda calculus here”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

talk#834

A JVM Does That?

Google TechTalks

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

4 HN recommenders · 2011–2017

talk#870

Raymond Hettinger, Keynote on Concurrency, PyBay 2017

SF Python

“the best learning material for me on this was this lecture”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

course#874

JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts - The First 3.5 Hours

Tony Alicea

“they are the holy grails of online education for me. Rigorous -- but not boring or too long.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

tutorial#936

Hello World - Machine Learning Recipes #1

Google for Developers

“Very approachable! The first lesson is a classifier to separate apples and oranges.”

6 HN recommenders · 2016–2017

talk#1071

Lone Star Ruby Conference 2010 Real Software Engineering by Glenn Vanderburg

Confreaks

“I always thought calling programmers engineers was very weird until I watched this great talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#1076

Understanding the Python GIL

David Beazley

“My favorite example is Beazley's GIL talk”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2023

talk#1201

DjangoCon 2022 | From React to htmx on a real-world SaaS product: we did it, and it's awesome!

DjangoCon Europe

“This recent talk from Djangocon "React to htmx on a real-world SaaS product" might be of interest”

4 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

talk#1207

Keynote: Begin...End?

David Beazley

“I recommend one of the recent videos by Dave Beazly”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#1226

RailsConf 2014 - Keynote: Writing Software by David Heinemeier Hansson

Confreaks

“I really like this[1] talk from DHH on the subject”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

talk#1281

Emily Shea - "Perl Out Loud"

The Perl and Raku Conference - Greenville, SC 2026

“This video from the article is a phenomenal demonstration of dictation coding”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#1290

RailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something

Confreaks

“as a talk it is fantastic - funny, smart, well put together.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

talk#1317

RailsConf 2019 - Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson

Confreaks

“Even if you're not a Rails developer it's worth watching.”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

course#1384

Lec 1 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008

MIT OpenCourseWare

“Professor keeps everything simple and direct because this class is designed for beginners with no or little programming experience.”

4 HN recommenders · 2010–2012

tutorial#1387

Christophe Pettus - PostgreSQL Proficiency for Python People - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

“I found this to be great introductory that touches on all the major points to keep in mind with Postgres.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016